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Launch Ride: Harley Street Rod
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Hardcore Harley devotees best look away now. Flag-waving Trump supporters probably won’t be impressed either, but for many riders – particularly those a little younger – be they open-minded new bikers, or indeed anyone looking for their first Harley, this could well be a game-changer. Words: John Milbank, editor of Motorcycle Sport & Leisure…
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‘Moby Dick’ Brough Superior going on sale next month for £600,000!
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One of the most valuable motorcycles in the world is going to auction in Italy next month and it’s being estimated by the auction house to sell for nearly £600,000. The Brough Superior SS100, nicknamed ‘Moby Dick’ by Motor Cycling magazine in 1931 was known as: “The fastest privately owned machine in the world,” at…
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Suzuki announces new low-rate finance offer on SV650 and GSX-S1000 models
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Suzuki has announced a new, low-rate finance offer for its SV650 and GSX-S1000 machines, which means the middleweight V-twin can be ridden away for £60 per month. A new rate of 4.9% APR, coupled with a deposit of £1,500.00, means the SV650 can be ridden for only £1.94 per day. Suzuki’s GSX-S1000 – which gets more…
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Indian Motorcycle unveils new Chieftain Elite and Chieftain Limited motorcycles for 2017
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Indian Motorcycle has just released two new models for 2017; the top-of-the-line Chieftain Elite and the Chieftain Limited. Only 350 of the Elite models will be sold globally: “With Chieftain Elite we wanted to design the most-premium, feature-packed Chieftain that we could possibly imagine,” said Reid Wilson, Director of Marketing for Indian Motorcycle. “In the end,…
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Launch report: Yamaha SCR950
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Yamaha’s SCR950 is hampered by its marketing. Described as being: “Inspired by the street scramblers of the 1960s,” many journalists’ default position will be to thrust it straight into a pigeon-hole already swollen with the likes of Ducati’s Scrambler, Triumph’s Street Scrambler and BMW’s R-nine-T Scrambler. I’d consider the XSR700 to have more potential to…
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Launch ride: 2017 Yamaha MT-10 SP & Tourer Edition
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Yamaha’s MT-10 is a stunning machine. Launched last year, the company was keen to stress that it wasn’t ‘just’ an R1 with wide bars, though given the fact that it uses the hyper-sports bike’s frame, swingarm, suspension and headlights, not to mention many of the crossplane crank motor’s main parts, you’d be forgiven for thinking…
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Indian Motorcycle will SELL YOU your own racebike FTR750 flat tracker for just over £40k! (and who said a road bike of this thing won’t happen?)
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A while ago we first brought you Indian’s plans to go flat track racing in the USA, then we brought you the first look at the bike that came from those plans – the FTR750. The bike is gorgeous and looks like a proper weapon, at the time we told you that we’d heard many…
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Suzuki announces V-Strom 1000, 650 and 650XT variant prices and availability for the UK
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Suzuki has announced pricing for its new V-Strom 650 and new V-Strom 1000, as well as confirming pricing for the XT variants of both its adventure-touring machines. Suzuki’s ever-popular V-Strom 650 will come with an RRP of £7,399 when the new bike arrives in March, while the more off-road-ready V-Strom 650XT (above) will be available…
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Indian has launched the Roadmaster Classic model to its 2017 line up
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The new model takes the Roadmaster and adds leather saddlebags, a new leather trunk and a raft of tech and rider comforts including the company’s Ride Command system, Pathfinder LED headlights and individually heated seats. The new bike It will be on sale in three colour schemes; Thunder Black and two-tone paint options of Willow Green over…
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Launch ride: Ducati Scrambler Desert Sled
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Words: Alastair Fagan Photography: Milagro Just days after Ducati announced another record-breaking year for the Bologna factory in 2016, we were riding a new version of its pivotal sales success in Almeria, Spain. The Scrambler family has sold 32,000 units during the first two years of existence (roughly 16,000 each year) and ensured Ducati featured…
