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Norton Motorcycles receive boost from the bank!
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Norton Motorcycles is scaling up production and hiring 40 more staff, thanks to a £3 million boost from Santander. Last year we showed you some behind the scenes snaps of the new Norton factory in Castle Donington – they showed a relatively small scale production line with a pretty limited capacity, but that’s all about to change. The factory currently…
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Prime Factors launch Indian Motorcycle store with open day event! Get along and ride some sweet Indian motorcycles
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Surrey motorcycle specialists Prime Factors Motorcycles have been appointed as the latest outlet for the iconic American brand Indian and will launch their new showroom and machines to the public this Saturday (22nd April). The dealership in Redhill will have a fleet of demonstration bikes plus experts from Indian Motorcycle in attendance with a promotional…
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BMW confirms 212bhp HP4 RACE carbon superbike. Yours for £68k and there’s only going to be 750 of them made.
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Last week we brought you our spy shots of BMW’s HP4 RACE carbon superbike out on final form during track tests in Spain – and today the factory announced that the bike is indeed going on sale to the general public. For nearly £70k. The bike is the first BMW motorcycle to feature a…
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Want to ride Cuba with Che Guevara’s son? He’s gone and started up a motorcycle touring business down there… yeah, really.
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Using a convoy of Harley-Davidsons, you might not expect the youngest son of the revered revolutionary to be making a buck riding around his homeland and giving tourists his point of view on the Cuban land, but he is and that’s what’s happening. And the company has just released new dates for later this year.…
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Lewis Hamilton: ‘I’d like to race in a MotoGP race’
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Former F1 world champ Lewis Hamilton has said that he wants to race in MotoGP, and that the F1 bosses shouldn’t stand in the way if a ride could be found. Speaking out at the weekend’s Bahrain F1 GP, Hamilton said that he thought that the news that fellow F1 driver Fernando Alonso’s plans…
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Video: Pastrana gets whip-giddy at legends race re-run weekend
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Check out this awesome video of dirt legend Travis Pastrana getting back to racing at fellow dirt legend Kevin Windham’s Mississippi MX Paradise. Windham invited a load of older motocross heroes along for a weekend of pond skimming, big whips and ‘official/unofficial’ racing. And if you want to see some BIG whips then keep…
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Revealed: Two-Wheel Drive Suzuki Burgman Scooter
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Suzuki has filed a patent application for a two-wheel drive scooter. It shows (what looks like) a Suzuki Burgman 200, with a hub-mounted electric motor in the front wheel that works to assist the engine-driven rear wheel. The main difference to a typical Burgman 200 is the front end. On the patent, the front wheel…
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Woman is motorbiking across the world – in spite of her ex-Boyfriend, who said it was ‘too dangerous’
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Nikki Misurelli’s former boyfriend refused to let her accompany him on a bike trip he was undertaking with his mates – he reckoned she wouldn’t be able to handle the ride from USA to Argentina. So, they broke up and she went by herself. Nikki passed her full bike test, and used a Honda CBR600RR…
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Video: Elbow down, on a Yamaha R3, in a car park. At 15mph.
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Check this out, it’s a kid in Japan getting his elbow down on his R3. In a car park. At 15mph. The whole film is just 42 seconds long, but it’s impressive and worth a look. Fair play to the kid, makes it look easy.
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Triumph announces TFEST event for later this month
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Triumph Motorcycles will be hosting TFEST later this month (Saturday 22/Sunday 23 April), the annual celebration of its motorcycle range. Taking place at Triumph dealers throughout the UK, TFEST is a fantastic opportunity for fans to view the entire range, including the latest edition to the Triumph family as dealers unveil the new Street Triple…
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