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Kawasaki developing artificial intelligence for motorcycles – CONFIRMED
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Kawasaki has announced that it IS working on as artificial intelligence system that will let your bike communicate and adapt to your needs as your ride. The artificial intelligence system will not only actually be able to ‘talk’ and respond to a rider’s commands but can change a bike’s set-up, power and handling character exactly…
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Major city planning to BAN motorcycles from its streets by 2025
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How many motorcycles in a major city is too many motorcycles in a major city? In excess of 7 million is the answer – if you were wondering. And after hitting this projected number one massive city in the world is looking into a plan to ban motorcycles from its road completely. Moves are afoot…
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BSB: Cadwell Park review
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By Philip Wain The three class acts of the 2016 MCE British Superbike Championship – Shane Byrne, Leon Haslam and Jason O’Halloran – all excelled at the recent round eight at Cadwell Park and it’s hard to look past one of these three to be the eventual champion. Byrne and Haslam have now secured their…
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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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