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Alex Lowes takes over Bradley Smith’s Tech 3 ride for British AND San Marino MotoGP rounds
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A week after guest-riding the Tech 3 Yamaha in a private MotoGP test, Alex Lowes has been drafted into the squad for the next two rounds of the championship as a temporary replacement for the injured Bradley Smith. Smith has been confirmed as having to miss his home race at Silverstone this weekend coming and…
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MV reveals F4Z custom superbike a week early
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We’ve been telling you about this bike for weeks now and MV Agusta has just revealed its F4Z custom superbike a week early on the factory’s own Twitter account. The bike, built around the Italian bike firm’s F4 superbike, has been commissioned as a one-off for a Japanese entrepreneur with the design actually being a…
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Video: Roundabout speedway in Poland
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Here’s something awesome to watch before the weekend: roundabout speedway! Yep, these guys are having a proper speedway race around a roundabout in Lublin, Poland. The stunt was organised by Red Bull and involved three riders, Maciek Janowski, Piotr Pawlicki and Przemyslaw Pawlicki battling for roundabout glory. You might think that the Tarmac surface would pose some problems for…
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Honda bringing two radical 650-based super-Scrambler concepts to production – claim
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Now, we’ve not been able to find these patents yet so we can’t vouch for the validity of the claims made elsewhere – but here’s the hot topic of conversation this morning in the emerging markets: Honda has filed two patents for ongoing production purposes and they’re patents for the Honda CB4 and CBSix50, two…
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Video: meet Livemap – the Russian answer to the helmet of the future
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Check out this video for an in-helmet live display system that looks great – and where the Skully system failed this might actually make it to market. The Russian inventor, Andrew Artishchev, has now made a second, working prototype of the system which broadcasts essential motorcycle and route data onto two areas on the inside…
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Want to own one of the James Bond: Skyfall motorbikes? This one is going up for sale next weekend
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How do you fancy owning an iconic piece of modern film motorcycling memorabilia? Well, you’ll be able to from next week because one of the James Bond Skyfall bikes is going up for sale. It’s the Honda CRF250R from the opening sequence of the 2012 film. It was modified to look like a Turkish police motorcycle…
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Meet Cyclotron, the self-riding motorcycle
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You still ride your bike yourself? How old-fashioned! In the recent months it seems to have become a bit of a trend to design motorcycles that can do the riding by themselves, with inventors seemingly determined to remove the rider from motorcycling. An interesting example was the Motobot, the superbike riding robot from Yamaha, and…
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Sam Lowes completes Aprilia MotoGP test at Misano
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Aprilia has completed two days of testing at Misano World Circuit with a line up of current Aprilia Racing Team Gresini riders Alvaro Bautista and Stefan Bradl as well as the two development team RS-GP machines, which will be contested next year by our own Sam Lowes, currently contesting Moto2 and former 125 world champion…
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Moto2: Alex Rins’ surgery a success
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Alex Rins (Paginas Amarillas HP 40) suffered a break to his left collarbone during an accident whilst riding a 100cc slide bike yesterday (Wednesday) with surgery happening this morning (Thursday) to fix the injury ahead of the British GP. Rins’ surgery was carried out by Doctor Xavier Mir at the Hospital Universitario Quirón Dexeus in…
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Bradley Smith crash: UPDATE – NO broken bones CONFIRMED
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PHEW! it looks as though reports of a broken femur for Bradley Smith during a crash in Free Practice for the Oscherlseben 8 Hour race were premature and the rider has just confirmed that he has NOT broken a bone – it’s a cut leg and then injuries will be further assessed. This tweet update…
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