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Yamaha R125 and R3 2017 illustration appears and is a stunner
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Yamaha R125 and R3 2017 illustration appears and is a stunner. Check out this damned-fine illustration made by the chaps over at moto-blast.org. They say that this is what the R15 could end up looking like when it’s given some styling tweaks ahead of being released as part of the 2017 line-up from Yamaha…
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Indian recalls 18,367 bikes over fire risk
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At the moment, this appears to be a USA-only recall (we say this because we’ve not had any notification through from Indian about UK bikes being affected), but as we have a lot of American friends who read MoreBikes, we had to tell you about this one. According to a notification from the National Highway…
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Austrian MotoGP: “Stoner is testing there because he wants to race there next month”
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Austrian MotoGP: “Stoner is testing there because he wants to race there next month.” There’s a hot rumour doing the rounds this morning that Casey Stoner is testing the factory Ducati at Austria today and tomorrow as a pre-cursor to him racing properly in a month’s time. Following on from the Sachsenring race last…
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More patents suggesting Honda Transalp is back
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We have just been sent these patent drawings that suggest Honda is planning to relaunch the Transalp, which was discontinued in 2012. Since its original launch in 1987, the Honda Transalp took the guises of XL400V, XL600V, XL650V, and XL700V. We’re not quite sure where in the current line-up this new model would sit as…
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MotoGP: Marquez pulls a master stroke in Germany
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Sunday didn’t get off to the best start for Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Team), the Spaniard suffering a huge fall during morning Warm Up. He was declared fit for the race, but he’d clearly taken a beating in the fall. As the GoPro Motorrad Grand Prix Deutschland got under way he seemed to be suffering,…
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Triumph Tiger Sport 2016 launch report – absolutely brilliant
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WORDS: John Milbank, editor MSL – PHOTOGRAPHY: Allesio Barbanti and Matteo Cavadini Thank you, Europe. Without your rules and regulations we wouldn’t have some of the world’s best engineers finding the solutions that bring us even greater motorcycles… The Tiger 1050 was launched in 2007, effectively carving its own niche as a ‘Sports Adventure…
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Spy shot: Honda’s City ADV Adventure super scooter is doing the city miles
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This picture of the Honda ADV City Adventure super scooter prototype out putting on the miles has appeared and gives us the best side-view yet of the bike that will be part of Honda’s 2017 line-up. The bike, first shown at last year’s Milan show as a ‘concept’ bike (shown below) is effectively a Honda…
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Video: Burt Munro documentary – the real man behind the World’s Fastest Indian story
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Video: Burt Munro documentary – the real man behind the World’s Fastest Indian story. We’ve been sent this video about the fast Kiwi Burt Munro – the man who’s story inspired the big budget film World’s Fastest Indian, starring Anthony Hopkins. This video here isn’t that high-gloss telling of Burt’s story but an interview with…
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Video: Bikers kick off at Kent police for ‘visual deterrent’ use of stinger on motorcycles
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Check out this video (below, at the bottom of the article) that’s appeared allegedly showing a member of Kent police setting up a stinger for potential use on motorcyclists. The accuracy of the video can’t be verified but it was posted onto various Facebook sites last week and we figured we’d show you this footage. Kent police…
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Video: Aleix Espargaro talks you through this weekend’s Sachsenring MotoGP round
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Video: Aleix Espargaro talks you through this weekend’s Sachsenring MotoGP round. Check out this video preview of this weekend’s ninth round of the MotoGP championship. The film has been put together by the Suzuki Ecstar squad and features team rider Aleix Espargaro talking us through what he expects to happen and how he thinks the…
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