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Polaris joining MV Agusta? Italian financial minds say the deal is on and could save MV
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Polaris joining MV Agusta? Italian financial minds say the deal is on and could save MV. Much talk going on at the moment about the future of MV Agusta with sectors of the Italian financial quarter saying that a possible link-up with Polaris is on the cards. MV have kept the courts at bay for…
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Indian Motorcycles launches the new Springfield
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Indian Motorcycle has just launched the new Indian Springfield, featuring a removable quick-release windshield and hard, all-weather, remote-locking saddlebags. These clip-on touring features mean that the Springfield can be ridden as a fully-loaded tourer or stripped down into a cruiser by removing the windshield and saddlebags. The bike looks similar to the Indian Chief Vintage,…
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Victory Motorcycles reveals last 1200cc concept series bike
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This concept, called ‘Combustion’, is powered by the new production engine that made its debut last month at EICMA in Milan, and was built by Zach Ness of Arlen Ness Motorcycles in Dublin, California. It’s the unit that powered the Project 156 Pikes Peak project motorcycle seen earlier this year. “Our family has a long-standing…
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Victory shows future 1200cc engine at Milan show, wrapped up in official ‘special’
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Victory Motorcycles has just revealed this special in Milan, and said that the new 1200 engine in it – derived from the motor that powered the Project 156 concept bike up Pikes Peak earlier this year – will be used in an: “Upcoming 1200cc class motorcycle.” The liquid-cooled four-valve engine has a 60-degree vee…
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Indian launches new Scout Sixty at Milan show – cheapest ever Indian at £8,999
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Indian has just launched this motorcycle at the EICMA event at the Milan show, the all-new Scout Sixty. The Scout Sixty has a 999cc motor (60 cubic inches which gives the name of the bike), and at £8,999 it is the the lowest priced bike yet from the brand. The new Indian Scout Sixty…
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SCOOP Indian confirms flat-track plans for 2017
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Well, we told you that this was going to happen and here’s the official word on Indian Motorcycles returning to the AMA flat-track series in 2017. Here’s is what Steve Menneto, Vice President of Polaris, the company that owns Indian, said: “I don’t have anything more to tell you at this stage, beyond the fact…
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SCOOP: Indian to bring back the flat-tracker glory!
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Indian is building a pure-bred, road legal flat-track style motorcycle that will race on the Mile and Half Mile tracks in America by late 2016 or early 2017. There are no official sources to quite this claim from at the moment, but according to a flat-track source, Polaris Industries – the company that owns the…
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Victory’s Project 156 ends Pikes Peak with another crash
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Victory’s Project 156 ends Pikes Peak with another crash. Victory Racing’s Project 156, ridden by journalist Don Canet, crashed in the second section of the mountain course and stopped running less than two miles from the summit of the Pikes Peak’s finish line last weekend. Canet had qualified first in the Exhibition Class a…
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Victory bring ‘Ice Bike’ back to life
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In 2011, Victory Motorcycles in Sweden froze a V92 TC for the Ice Hotel in Sweden to exhibit – after just one-hour of workshop time, it was running again. Despite spending four years at sub-zero temperatures, the bike only needed an oil change, fresh fuel and a new battery. It even started using the same…
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Project Livewire – we ride the Harley-Davidson electric motorcycle
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Rain was covering my visor; it was blind apex after hairpin turn. All I wanted to do was wind back the throttle to hear the noise of this prototype machine, to hear that jet engine whoosh again before they took the bike off me. And that’s something I never thought I would say about an…
