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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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Video: Rockstar Husqvarna factory Dakar preview
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Video: Rockstar Husqvarna factory Dakar preview. https://youtu.be/uEm-7qGbqmY The Dakar Rally gets underway on January 2 and whilst we’re all going to be getting over the New Year festivities some of the world’s greatest off-road riders will be going all-out over some crazy-tough terrain. To get your (and our) juices flowing for the big bike bash,…
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Dainese returns to the Space Race programme
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Dainese returns to the Space Race programme. How about this for some motorcycle-techy stuff getting out where no motorcycle-techy stuff has been before? Following the September 2015 IRISS Mission during which Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen first tested SkinSuit, Dainese is returning to space protecting Thomas Pesquet, who has been on the Proxima Mission since…
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Learner motorcyclists could have to take even more tests just to get their CBT if Government plans get go ahead
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Learner motorcyclists could have to take even more tests just to get their CBT if Government plans get go ahead. A raft of changes to the way learner road users are taught and assessed could be about to come into force if Government plans for new rules for new riders and drivers are brought into…
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Big 2016 Video: The SHOCKING moment thieves try to steal Ducati Panigale but are stopped by have-a-go-heroes
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Big 2016 Video: The SHOCKING moment thieves try to steal Ducati Panigale but are stopped by have-a-go-heroes It’s been a month since we brought you this video first, but we thought it was a re-visit. Especially as most of us are soooooo bored right now. So here we go – this is a scary video…
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