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BMW patents front wheel ‘catcher’ to help with motorcycle head-on crashes
In a head-on collision, a motorcyclist will usually come off far worse than in any other type of crash. That’s largely due to the forces
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Flying Flea and Roadster – two new model names registered by Royal Enfield
It looks like there’s two more new bikes coming from Royal Enfield which has registered two names with the European Union Intellectual Property Office: Flying
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Buy AND Sell your bike for FREE! Yeah, FREE. Place your ad and shift your stuff in front of more than NINE MILLION users.
If you want to buy or sell motorbikes, or anything to do with motorbikes (so no wardrobes or anything like that… seriously people, how come
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April’s Stafford Classic Bike Show postponed due to coronavirus pandemic
Following the recent announcement from the UK Government, Mortons Events has had to postpone the 40th Carole Nash Classic Motorcycle Show which was due to be
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North West 200 road races are now OFF
The annual road race event held in the North of Ireland has been postponed. According to Kyle White at the Belfast News Letter, the event
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TT 2020: It’s CANCELLED! No Isle of Man TT for this year because of the coronavirus.
The 2020 Isle of Man TT races have been cancelled. In a statement just made at 5pm today (Monday) by Chief Mininster Howard Quayle, it
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VIDEO: Watch Sylvain Guintoli put a stock GSX-R around Donington. This is WELL WORTH watching in full
Look, he’s a Suzuki man taking a 2020 Suzuki GSX-R1000R out for a really fast lap at Donington, which is a circuit he knows better
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North West 200: Crunch time for the 2020 race – meeting with officials happening today (Monday)
Organisers of the North West 200 road race are meeting with Northern Ireland’s Chief Medical Officer today (Monday) to discuss what they are going to
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Zut Alors! Le Racing is off: French motorcycle competition ain’t happening
Following the sports-wide pulling of events, it’s been announced that the French Motorcycling Federation (FMF) has cancelled all competition in all disciplines of motorcycle sport
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MotoGP: UPDATE Maverick Vinales’ ankle ISN’T broken. Hospital says it’s banged up but no breaks. Phew.
An update on his Twitter feed has put some pre-season worries to bed at least – Yamaha man Maverick Vinales had an off during motocross
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SPY SHOTS: Ducati’s 2021 V4 Multistrada caught in secret road test. Looks virtually finished
Caught heading out in the rain at Bologna, the 2021 V4 Strada might, at first glance, look the same as the previous L-twin powered bikes
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KTM closes factory in fight against coronavirus – two week stop will affect 2020 business plans in the long run
The Austrian factory has just closed for two weeks in an attempt to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. KTM itself says that whilst the
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VIDEO: Valentino Rossi’s Secret Room – Episode 3: A Knight’s Armour is out. Watch it here
Here’s the latest in the series of videos from Dainese taking us into Valentino Rossi’s private museum. Housing the majority of his race suits, helmets,
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VIDEO: Watch a lap of Qatar on the 2020 Honda Fireblade with Leon Haslam
It takes the Honda rider just under 2m 30s to get a road-going Blade around Qatar and in this video Leon explains all the nooks
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Le Mans 24-hour race postponed to September because of Coronavirus
Here’s another victim to the nearly global lockdown on sporting events as part of a containment phase of Coronavirus treatment. Planned to take place on
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Want to see Yamaha’s plans for a carbon-fibre road bike that BRUISES when damaged and emits LIGHT from a wound to the frame?
Here’s a design patent from Yamaha that’s going to blow a few minds – a carbon-fibre framed motorcycle that BRUISES when the frame is damaged,
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WSB: Now the Spanish and French rounds rescheduled because of Coronavirus
We’ve just been sent this from Dorna about changes to the WSB calendar because of the Coronavirus outbreak: With ongoing external factors of the coronavirus
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MotoGP: Now Argentina rescheduled for November. November’s going to be busy, innit?
The Argentina round of the MotoGP calendar was due to happen from the 17th to the 19th of April, but is now going to happen
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Norton collapse: MPs raise question over pensions scheme
Questions have been raised in parliament over whether regulators should have got involved sooner in investigating the pension scheme set up by Norton Motorcycles and
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Here’s CFMoto’s 300 SR new sport bike that makes nearly 30bhp and weighs just 165kg road-ready!
It may only be heading for the Asian market, but this gorgeous 300 is definitely worthy of your attention. The CFMoto 300 SR uses a
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MotoGP: CONFIRMED USA round now rescheduled for November
Due to the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak, the Americas GP has been postponed. We told you that the USA round of the MotoGP championship was looking
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MotoGP: Now the FIM President has waded in about Coronovirus fall out – double-header weekends, Portimão and racing in January is on the table!
To understand why the MotoGP year is being pushed as far as – potentially – January 2021, it’s important to understand that the minimum amount
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VIDEO: Honda’s 2020 Fireblade gets its taps opened up in Japan. Turn this up LOUD!
Check this out, it’s a video from our friends at Japanese magazine Young Machine of their top-end test on the new Honda Fireblade. Riding the
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MotoGP: The USA round falls under Austin, Texas’ new ‘State of Emergency’ ruling. Prospects look iffy for April.
After the cancellation of the 2020 opening round of the MotoGP championship and the postponement of the second round in Thailand (move to October in
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MotoGP: Dorna boss Ezpeleta talks about the Coronavirus plans: ‘We will race at Christmas if we have to and GPs run behind closed doors might happen!’
So here’s quite the set of quotes from Carmelo Ezpeleta, Dorna boss (basically the head honcho of MotoGP) about the impacts of the Coronavirus and
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MotoGP: Lorenzo confirms the wild card ride at Catalunya, as expected
So who said that this was going to happen and that Jorge was itching to get back to a MotoGP race then? Oh yeah… that’s
Read more Isle of Man TT 2020: Bosses release statement about this year’s TT in light of Coronavirus worries
With the Isle of Man government’s latest update confirming that so far 16 tests for Coronavirus have been carried out on the Island and all
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MotoGP boss: “There will absolutely be a 2020 MotoGP season.”
In a statement from Carmelo Ezpeleta, Dorna boss, things are starting to sound a bit desperate as far as the rest of 2020’s MotoGP happenings
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MotoGP: Here’s the revised schedule for this weekend’s Qatar round
Check out the updated schedule as Moto2 and Moto3 kick off their seasons at the Losail International Circuit. Moto2 and Moto3 will begin their 2020
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VIDEO: Oooops! Batman CRASHES the new Batcycle on wet Glaswegian roads. But it might all just be meant to happen…
Ok, this is either one of those moments where motorcyclists go ‘ooooh, poor sod, we’ve all done it’ OR it’s one of the most precise
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Hollywood superstar Eric Bana is working on a Mike Hailwood Isle of Man TT movie
Yep, the Aussie petrolhead with a well documented love for anything with an engine that you can do stupid things on has begun the ball
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MotoGP: Now the Thailand Grand Prix is postponed
In light of the earlier news about the MotoGP round at Qatar being cancelled, this has just arrived from MotoGP owners Dorna about the second
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Roads 2020: Michael Dunlop to ride VisionTrack Ducati at this year’s TT and the North West 200!
The 30 year old from Ballymoney in County Antrim has secured a deal with the reigning British Superbike champions to race on a factory-supported VisionTrack Ducati V4
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Robert Pattinson on a rat bike in The Batman movie!
It’s a quickly-grabbed photo but in it the 2021 film’s star Robert Pattinson is clearly seen on a not-Batcycle for a segment of the film
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Harley-Davidson President and CEO leaves the company in ‘mutual decision’.
Announced by the American firm, Harley-Davidson’s the big boss has gone from the so-called Bar & Shield brand. President and CEO Matt Levatich, 55, has
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MotoGP: Moto2 and Moto3 WILL race at Qatar but MotoGP race CANCELLED for the desert outing
This in from MotoGP bosses at Dorna for this coming weekend’s opening round of the MotoGP championship at the Losail circuit on Qatar – whilst
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CONFIRMED: Our spy shots of the BMW R18 tourer now CONFIRMED by BMW patents uncovered in Brasil!
Filed in Brasil and uncovered by the new bikes team at Motor1 Brasil, the 14 patents from the BMW factory leave absolutely no doubt that
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WSB: Redding tops frantic FP2 session as 2020 kicks off. Rea sixth quickest.
The BSB Champion leads the way with 12 riders covered by just a second after Day 1 in Australia. After the first Free Practice session,
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Team Classic Suzuki to make Isle of Man TT debut
Team Classic Suzuki will swap its XR69 and RG500 machinery for modern GSX-R1000 kit when it makes its Isle of Man TT debut at this
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VIDEO: Valentino Rossi’s secret museum
In the first of a four part series of videos, nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi shows you his ‘secret museum’ where leathers, helmets, gloves, boots,
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10 things to know ahead of WSB in Australia THIS WEEKEND
Want to be more expert than the ‘experts’? S’easy – just use this crib sheet and you’re ready to go for this weekend’s opening round
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From now on, it’s Moto3 and Moto2 during the day and the MotoGP lads are being sent out at sunset. The main reason for the
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Kawasaki patents a three-wheeled motorcycle
There’s a bunch of patent drawings that have appeared on Italian site motociclismo.it, showing a three-wheeler from Kawasaki – but it doesn’t solve the two-wheels-at-the-front
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Official campaign against loud motorcycles goes from 1 area to 81 areas in Germany
Back in July last year, a campaign against excessive motorcycle noise was started in Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany. And now another 80 areas of the country
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WSB: Rea edges Baz as Phillip Island Official Test ends with a flurry
The Northern Irishman fought back and heads the way, whilst the top 17 riders are covered by just 1.5 seconds The final pre-season test for
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MotoGP: Maverick Viñales rises to reign Day 3 at Qatar test
Spaniard back on top as Yamaha and Suzuki lock out the top four. Rossi crashes. Marquez: “We were lost, but today we found the way.”
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MotoGP: Marc Marquez after Qatar test: “I’m struggling more here.”
The reigning World Champion’s shoulder injury doesn’t seem to be getting any easier at the Qatar Test. Despite having made his MotoGP comeback at the
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WSB: Razgatlioglu fastest after day one at Phillip Island
Phillip Island hosted the final Official Test for World Superbike ahead of the season opener with Toprak Razgatlioglu ending the day fastest after a rain-affected second session.
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