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Author: Tony Carter
FIRST PHOTOS: Harley-Davidson’s 2020 Streetfighter and Pan America Adventure bike snapped in FINISHED form!
The newshounds at top Dutch site Nieuwsmotor have bagged this brace of photos from a H-D dealer conference showing the American brand’s two big hitters
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MotoGP: It’s Silverstone this weekend and here’s a bucketload of stats about it.
This is the tenth year that Silverstone has hosted a Grand Prix event since the motorcycle world championship series returned to the circuit in 2010
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SPY SHOTS: Here’s Triumph’s 2020 Tiger XR that we’ve just caught on the road. Oooooh…
With the photos that our spy snapper’s just landed, we get the first confirmation of the Tiger XR variant for 2020. We’ve already shown you
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SPY SHOTS: KTM’s 1290 Super Adventure (next year’s bike – the new one) caught out in FINAL form. It’s ready. It’s done.
OK, so this is the S variant of the 2020 bike (we’ve already shown you the R version which you can spot easily by what’s
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Check this out. Gorgeous CGI from Japan of a ‘super’ Katana 1135R that’s rumoured to be on the horizon!
The rumour-mill in Japan is that Suzuki is planning a limited-edition ‘Super Katana’ that is effectively a ‘R’ version of the bike that was launched
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Hands-free phone ban for drivers ‘Should be considered’ says DfT. Yep.
How about this from the world of the ill-informed then? According to reports on the BBC, drivers could be banned from using hands-free mobile phones
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Alvaro Bautista has left Ducati – according to his manager. Scott Redding’s WSB move is between Ducati and BMW, apparently…
It’s only a small comment made by Bautista’s manager, Simone Battistella, to Corse Di Moto in Italy, but it has big implications for the immediate
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Here’s Harley’s new Limited Paint Schemes – and they ain’t cheap…
It’s something of a regular theme with the American company that buyers of selected models can pay a bit more for a factory-finished paintjob –
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LOOK AGAIN: Fancy looking at our exclusive mega gallery of the 2020 KTM 1290 Super Duke R (these are the photos we first showed you FIVE WEEKS ago?)
Do you remember when we showed you our mega gallery of the 2020 KTM 1290 Super Duke R back on July 2? Good stuff, wasn’t
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They’re up and running in France. First ‘noise’ cameras from the cops trialing on real roads and just one catches hundreds on it’s first Sunday ‘live’. Uh oh…
It was nearly two months ago that we first brought you the news that the UK is to undergo trails of the so-called ‘acoustic cameras’
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SPY SHOTS: Here’s the real photos of the 2020 Triumph Tiger caught out in testing. Whoa!
Whilst our spy snappers have been out getting shots of the 765 Daytona AND the Thruxton R Black – they’ve also grabbed this motorcycle too,
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SPY SHOTS: Here’s the real photos of Triumph’s 765 Daytona Moto2-for-the-road bike FINISHED, UNDISGUISED and out in tests!
So here we go then, these are the first photos (ain’t no drawings going on here) of the ACTUAL 765 Daytona from Triumph – the
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SPY SHOTS: Here’s the real photos of Triumph’s 2020 Thruxton Black. Yep, we didn’t know about this either…
Whilst our band of snappers were out getting the Triumph Daytona 765 Moto2-on-the-road bike in Spain, they also bagged this – a new Thruxton model
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BSB: James Ellison out of Smiths BMW British Superbike team
James Ellison and Smiths Racing BMW have ‘parted company’ after the seventh round of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship at Thruxton, yesterday. At the current
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Here’s the top 20 riders in this year’s Senior Classic TT – John McGuinness will be first away.
The top twenty seeded riders for the opening race of the Classic TT presented by Bennetts, the Bennetts Senior Classic TT, have been announced. As
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VIDEO: Holy hell! It’s after moments like this that your team might have a word with you about riding style…
So what we have here is a pretty good video and some amazing photos from Luca Salvadori (racer) who comprehensively lunched his BMW HP4 (bike)
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Suzuki offers summer test ride incentive with £500 off the price of the new bike you get out on
Suzuki has launched a new summer incentive, rewarding anyone that takes a test ride on selected models with £500 off the RRP when they go
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Here’s Indian’s motorcycle with onboard BBQ…
So you’re going to the Sturgis Rally this year (big rally in America with loads of Harleys, Indians… that sort of thing…) and you want
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MOTOGP: Rabat signs a two-year deal
Tito Rabat is staying in the premier league class until the end of 2021. The news puts to bed paddock rumours that the Spaniard was
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SPY SHOTS: Here’s Benelli’s secret squirrel 2020 TNT 600. Looks pretty different.
Making 85bhp @ 11,500rpm and 54.6Nm of torque @ 10,500rpm, don’t expect much in performance to change when this motorcycle is officially unveiled at the
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VIDEO: The BEST film you’ll see for a while. Full Trail Fever – Retro KTM Enduro with a kick. Watch this, it’s AWESOME.
We’re loving this video this morning, and we reckon you’ll love it too. AORC and ISDE winner Tom Mason (a man with a hugely impressive
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PATENT: Honda’s 2020 CRF250L and CRF250 Rally getting twin-spark engine design and internal upgrades
Patents from Honda show that the factory’s quarter-litre off-roaders (with some pretty decent on-road manners too) are moving to twin-spark tech for next year. Outwardly,
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LOOK AGAIN: HOT RUMOUR: The return of the Honda Deauville for 2020! According to the French, it’s up to 998cc and it’s on its way…
We showed you this first a couple of weeks ago, but in case you missed this article – well, we figured you’d appreciate seeing it
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ROADS: Dunlop wins at Armoy – two weeks (and a bit) after breaking his pelvis
Michael Dunlop won both Superbike races at the Armoy Road Races at the weekend, just 16 days after breaking his pelvis at the Southern 100.
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Dunlop’s latest groove – a new TT100 GP Radial for the retro look (but with loads of tyre tech)
Dunlop will reveal its latest tyre for the growing modern retro and heritage markets at the Classic TT which begins on August 17th on the
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SPY SHOTS: Triumph’s NEW 2020 Rocket III caught on camera. TECH SPECS revealed.
Triumph’s new Rocket III has been caught out testing in Spain ahead of its 2020 release – and from what German magazine Motorrad says on
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VIDEO: Watch this guy do a 52m jump on a jacked up GSX-R1000 with dirtbike suspension… you’ll LOVE this film!
One of the best films we’ve seen this year. FMX star Juha Ruokolainen and his team have slapped full-on dirtbike suspension to a 162bhp Suzuki
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Bruce Anstey is BACK! The Kiwi is making his return to racing THIS YEAR following cancer treatment
After two years of intensive treatment for cancer, Bruce Anstey has announced his return to racing with an entry to this year’s Classic TT event
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Flippn’ eck! The Kramer GP2 R is now on sale. 130bhp, 140kg, 74ftlb and costs £27K
We’ve just had spec confirmation through from Markus Kramer himself, telling us that the pretty stonking 890cc (an 850cc version is available for the USA
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LAUNCH REPORT: Harley’s LiveWire is a game changer – but don’t thrash it for long
After a few hours of riding the production-ready LiveWire from H-D in Portland, Oregon – I’m converted. This is a motorcycle for the generation not
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SPY SHOTS: Ducati’s 2020 Panigale V2 caught out in secret test… oh yes…
What we have here is a HEAVILY revised and facelifted Ducati Panigale 959 which shares it’s brakes, front forks, subframe, face and seat with the
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NEW GEAR: Suzuki and Arai release MotoGP-inspired Chaser-X
Suzuki and Arai have joined forces to create a Team Suzuki Ecstar, MotoGP-inspired Chaser-X limited edition helmet, which comes with an RRP of £550 and
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WSB: Marco Melandri has announced his racing retirement
Former 250cc World Champion, WSB and MotoGP runner-up and 22-time WSB race winner, has confirmed that the 2019 Superbike World Championship will be his last.
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MotoGP: Brad Binder joins Red Bull KTM Tech3 in 2020
KTM will welcome their next MotoGP racer to have come through the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and Red Bull KTM Moto3 and Moto2 ranks
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VIDEO: Kawasaki H2R racing against old superbikes in the rain… (yes, it’s awesome)
We like ourselves a good biking video at MoreBikes – and although it’s now a few years old, it doesn’t get much better than this. The
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RUMOUR: According to das Germans… they’ve SEEN the 2020 Ducati Multistrada V4 out on test (but didn’t get a photo)
We’ve been banging on about the V4 Strada from the Italians for a while now, the gossip grapevine out of Italy has had the bike
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ROADS: Michael Dunlop CONFIRMED to race at this year’s Ulster Grand Prix
Michael Dunlop has confirmed that he WILL return to Dundrod at the 2019 Ulster Grand Prix. It’s the first time he’s been back at the
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Get £500 free accessories with new Suzuki V-Strom 1000 and V-Strom 650 models
Want some free stuff if you buy a new Suzuki V-Strom this summer? Then this news is going to be right up your Adventure-based street.
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SPY SHOTS: Finished and ready to rock – here’s the COMPLETE KTM 1290 Super Duke R for 2020 in all it’s glory… check out that pipe…
Have you seen the latest photos of NEXT YEAR’S KTM Super Duke 1290R? We showed them to you last week, but with the racing action
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WSB: Eugene Laverty CONFIRMED for this weekend’s British round at Donington – but only for FP1, so far!
The Irishman has been out with injury since May but, after an extensive recuperation period, will be back this weekend to put on a show.
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MotoGP: Danilo Petrucci has signed to stay with Ducati for 2020
It’s just happened. Danilo Petrucci is staying with Ducati for the 2020 MotoGP World Championship. The Italian rider will once again pair with Andrea Dovizioso
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Pikes Peak 2019: Official statement from the organisers says NO SIGNS of mechanical failure with the Ducati V4 Streetfighter
An official release from the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb Race Director and Race Safety Team has been made public. In it, the organisation says
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VIDEO: Watch Alex Lowes getting to grips with the Yamaha factory 8-Hour R1. New Roberts-inspired helmet design for the Brit, too.
Here’s the official video from the factory ahead of the Suzuka 8-hour race which runs on Sunday, July 28. Things to take away from this;
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So here we go then, here’s the patents for the new BMW F850RS (which looks virtually identical to our spy photos).
Last year we brought you the first ever photos of a secret 850cc powered BMW roadster that looked like a smaller, roadster version of the
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You know it’s hot and getting hotter? Well…
Here’s an odd post from the Brandenburg Police force in West Berlin, Germany. According to the officer involved, the man was given a ticket on
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VIDEO: Terrifying tiger scare sees motorcyclists narrowly escape… And we’re not talking about a new Triumph!
By Adam Rear Shocking helmet cam footage shows the trouser-browning moment a Bengal tiger narrowly avoided pouncing on motorcyclists in India. An adrenaline fuelled video
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£10 billion needed over the next decade to fix pothole ‘scandal’
By Adam Rear An investigation by the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) has found that councils need to spend a whopping £2,740,000 A DAY for the
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LOOK AGAIN: KTM’s 790 SMC caught out in road tests ahead of 2020 launch – it’s beefier! it’s quicker!
We were the first to show you these images when we put them up a month ago, but it’s worth you seeing our gallery of
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