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Ducati sales soar with 55,000 bikes sold last year
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Ducati sales soar with 55,000 bikes sold last year. Ducati’s Scrambler and other new models has helped the Italian firm log to its seventh year or continued growth – it sold more than 55,000 bikes throughout 2016. That is 1.2% up on the previous 12 month period. 2015 saw Ducati shift 54,809 bikes compared to…
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Norton boss unveils plans for North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix (NW200 entry could happen this year!)
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Norton boss unveils plans for North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix (NW200 entry could happen this year!) Whilst the dust settles from yesterday’s announcements around the coming TT summer event on the Isle of Man, Norton boss Stuart Garner has set tongues wagging in the road race world with claims that his superbike could…
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Umm… these images are ‘serious’ and have been made as part of the Kawasaki World Fair. Yep. Really.
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Umm… these images are ‘serious’ and have been made as part of the Kawasaki World Fair. Yep. Really. OK, so we’re not 100% sure about what’s exactly going on here (because we’re trying to translate this from Japanese) but here’s what we think this, that’s been posted on the official site for the 2017 Kawasaki…
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Ducati CEO CONFIRMS that next superbike is going to be a V4! Not a V-twin. And you’ll be able to buy it.
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So amid all the guff and bluster of the past few days something has happened that will get every single sportbike fan on the planet bubbling away – the boss of Ducati confirming that the company’s next superbike is going to be a V4… The quotes have been reported by the excellent MotoGP journalist David…
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Launch ride: Triumph Street Scrambler
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The iconic Triumph Scrambler is back, reincarnated as the new Street Scrambler The Street Twin has been the best-selling bike in the 2016 water-cooled Bonneville range, so it was only a matter of time until Triumph added more flavour to the accessible end of its modern classic range. Enter stage the Street Scrambler, the latest…
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Guy Martin to RACE at the TT this year! CONFIRMED! Team-mate to John McGuinness on factory Fireblades
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Guy Martin to RACE at the TT this year! CONFIRMED! Team-mate to John McGuinness on factory Fireblades. Guy Martin IS going to race at the TT this year – and he’s doing it as the official Honda team-mate to John McGuinness! The TV star has signed to ride the new Honda Fireblade in both the…
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First look: Rossi and Vinales’ 2017 Yamaha MotoGP bike unveiled
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First look: Rossi and Vinales’ 2017 Yamaha MotoGP bike unveiled. Here’s the 2017 Yamaha MotoGP bike which has just been unveiled by Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales at the Movistar Yamaha’s 2017 launch. The bike looks pretty different to last year’s bike – in colourscheme at least. Here’s the 2016 bike so that you can…
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Watch Rossi and Vinales at Yamaha’s MotoGP launch here LIVE at 10.30am UK
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Watch Rossi and Vinales at Yamaha’s MotoGP launch here LIVE at 10.30am UK. Hit the button on the screen above and you’ll get to watch Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales uncrate their 2017 MotoGP Yamahas. It’ll be a bit of a show and then everyone saying how excited they are and how amazed they are…
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2017 Fireblade prices slip out – rumour at the moment – but it sounds pricey if true
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2017 Fireblade prices slip out – rumour at the moment – but it sounds pricey if true. Honda’s prices for the new Fireblade have slipped out – and it seems as though the SP1 and SP2 versions of the bike are going to cost a bit more than first thought. Here’s the prices that we’ve…
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Check this out – Maverick Vinales 2017 helmet paint scheme. Pretty trick.
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Check this out – Maverick Vinales 2017 helmet paint scheme. Pretty trick. Here it is, the picture was posted on the Yamaha rider’s twitter feed. Looks tops and is from the Drudi studio. If you’re after a spankers-new replica then keep an eye out for this one – surely this is going to be part…
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