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Harley-Davidson may face hostile takeover
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Reports from the US suggest that Harley-Davidson may be facing a hostile takeover from KKR & Co, a private equity company. KKR & Co. is a major player in finance and manages roughly $126 billion in assets, including private equity, energy, infrastructure, real estate, credit strategies and hedge funds. Shares of Harley Davidson went up…
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Holy cow! Iconic stars of ON ANY SUNDAY headlining Stafford Show! The original superstars together again!
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Holy cow! Iconic stars of ON ANY SUNDAY headlining Stafford Show! The original superstars together again! The COOLEST news we’ve had in a while people! FOUR of the cast from iconic motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday are set for guest of honour duties at Stafford’s massive annual motorcycle event this autumn. Yep. Those guys. They’re…
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Video: Marquez and Pedrosa play on RCVs at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. Awesome slo-mo action.
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Check out this really cool video of Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa putting a couple of RCV213V-S bikes through their paces. The pair got a bit of pre-MotoGP time at the Red Bull Ring Austrian circuit which hosts the MotoGP round for the fitst time on August 14. Dani takes you around a lap of…
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Meet the 150bhp, 150kg Buell race bike made in Spain – Harley, you really SHOULD make this!
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This extremely pretty thing is the BOTT XR1R, a Battle of the Twins bike made by Spanish engineer David Sanchez, the owner of the BottPower company. The Buell Thunderstorm V-twin-powered Pikes Peak racebike is an ‘almost’ finished project that has now been unveiled at its Barcelona base. Sanchez says that the bike is an ongoing…
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Ten Indian Motorcycle T-shirts for the summer
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Indian Motorcycle has launched a selection of cool men’s and women’s T-shirts that might well go on many bikers’ shopping lists this summer. Here are all the details from Indian: MENS WALL OF DEATH TEE Celebrate the daredevil exploits of the legendary Wall of Death riders with this great looking tee. It features contrast-colour shoulder stitching and a…
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WSB preview: Round 9, Laguna Seca – the stats that matter
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Ahead of this weekend’s WSB round at Laguna Seca, California here’s a vast stack of excellent stats to get your bike racing brain firing on all cylinders. Check out the amount of time that Tom Sykes appears in the important-stats list! 17 – A European rider won here for the first time after 16 races:…
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Odds slashed on Guy Martin to replace Chris Evans on Top Gear!
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Odds slashed on Guy Martin to replace Chris Evans on Top Gear! Guy Martin has had the odds on him becoming the new Top Gear Presenter slashed by bookie William Hill. The Lincolnshire star of the SPEED with series on Channel Four has seen his odds cut back a couple of times and in the…
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BSB Preview: Round five – Snetterton
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By Philip Wain The British Superbike Championship convoy rolls into Snetterton this weekend and with the teams having tested at the Norfolk venue last month, everyone should be able to hit the ground running and be on the pace immediately. Leon Haslam (above) arrives at Snetterton as the Championship leader, a status he’ll be keen…
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MiClimate – the wearable air-con unit for bikers (yep, it’s real…)
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MiClimate – the wearable air-con unit for bikers (yep, it’s real…). No, we’re not making this up. This is called MiClimate and it’s a USA company that’s developed what it calls ‘personal air conditioning’ that’s aimed at motorcyclists. The system has been developed to be worn on the belt and weighs in at 1.5lbs, it…
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Triumph trademarks ‘Speed Twin’ name – mini-Thruxton 900 on the way for 2017
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Triumph trademarks ‘Speed Twin’ name – mini-Thruxton 900 on the way for 2017. Not content with smashing the marketplace in the rush to grab Thruxton and Thruxton Rs, Triumph is going to appear with a 900cc Speed Twin model – a mini-Thruxton for less cash – as part of its 2017 line-up. The Hinckley-based firm has now…
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