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Keanu Reeves sponsors 13 year old American kid’s road racing dream
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Keanu Reeves sponsors 13 year old American kid’s road racing dream. Let’s face it, Keanu Reeves is a genuine modern mega star. He’s also a life long biker and seems to be pretty much an all-round good egg. We like him for all these things. And now we like him for something else, too. The…
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Video: Sony steps in to the ‘augmented reality’ helmet game – finally, this stuff’s getting serious
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Sony steps in to the ‘augmented reality’ helmet game – finally, this stuff’s getting serious. So, finally, one of the BIG electronics giants has stepped up to the plate to give us an augmented reality helmet. Well, in the pretty near future – it would seem. This is the N-Com ARX. It’s a genuine, very…
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Here’s the odds on who will be MotoGP champ this year…
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Here’s the odds on who will be MotoGP champ this year… So this set of betting figures compiled by the lads at revzilla has got our attention – and loosened up our wallets a bit. This is the current odds from Ladbrookes and William Hill on who will be the 2017 MotoGP World Champion. Now,…
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Japanese journo says NAKED version of Honda CBR250RR is DEFINITELY on the way…
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Japanese journo says NAKED version of Honda CBR250RR is DEFINITELY on the way… Here’s the mac-up illustration straight off the cover of top Japanese magazine YoungMachine (above) and another (below) from MotoBlast.org – the news about the naked CBR250RR is certainly grabbing some imaginations around the globe. We’re willing to bet that loads of…
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Get your hands on a piece of racing history: 1992 Yamaha Harris YZR500 OWC1 Screamer on eBay
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Oh boy! Look what we just spotted on eBay: a pukka 1992 Yamaha Harris YZR500 OWC1 Screamer. This is a proper Grand Prix factory bike, built for the teams that raced at the top level back in the day. Tipping the scales at 130kg and pumping out around 155bhp, the Harris-framed two-stroke YZR500 is a…
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine!
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine! Here’s a story from our friends in Japan that’s going to get the motorcycle world hopping around in New Year excitement – a return of the RD350! Kind of! What this story surrounds is news from our friends at Japanese…
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Amazing custom boxers from Japan
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Japanese custom shop Ritmo Sereno specialises in boxer engines, and has built an impressive portfolio of custom BMWs, Moto Guzzis and BSAs. There’s plenty more custom goodness on their website, but here are a couple of particularly nice examples of their work.
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Video: RSD X Indian Hooligan does a riverbed jump
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We’ll let you make your own mind up about this – this is a video from stage diver and bike builder Roland Sands (look through our previous pages to see him ride this bike off a stage! Superstar!) that shows his Indian Sportster special Hooligan bike doing some stuff. The bike weighs nearly 220kg and…
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OK, weird: This is a motorcycle with the bodywork made of STONE. Yeah, stone.
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OK, weird: This is a motorcycle with the bodywork made of STONE. Yeah, stone. What a time to be alive! We have bikes from both BMW and Ducati with Carbon chassis, wheels and component parts – the products of companies striving to take things to the lightest form possible – and now we have this!…
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Video: Final episode of Yamaha’s Master of Torque (MT series of bikes based animation) is now live
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Video: Final episode of Yamaha’s Master of Torque (MT series of bikes based animation) is now live. Umm… we’ve shown you previous episodes of this series before, it’s a Japanese animation from Yamaha that’s you’re usual Japanese motorcycle cartoon fare – but this stuff is centered around riding bikes from the MT series of…
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