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Honda’s patent for air-conditioning on-bike system (yep)…
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OK, here’s a story from the ‘are you frickin’ serious?’ file – and we’re not saying that this is going to happen, but it might. But it probably won’t. Maybe. Anyway, this is it. It’s been reported in the southern hemipshere that Honda has filed patents for a new on-bike air conditioning system. Yep. Basically,…
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And here it is! Vinales CONFIRMED as Yamaha rider for 2017/18 alongside Rossi – Iannone switches to Suzuki
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Lovely stuff. As we outlined and dated a week ago. Here’s the announcement: Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd announce the signing of Maverick Viñales to ride for the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team for 2017 and 2018. Viñales, who is presently fifth in the MotoGP Championship standings, will partner nin-time World Champion Valentino Rossi, whose contract…
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BSB Preview: Round three Brands Hatch
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By Philip Wain Christian Iddon leads the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship into the third round of the season at Brands Hatch this weekend and the Tyco BMW rider knows he will have a fight on his hands in his quest to celebrate a debut race win in Kent. Iddon is the only rider to…
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Victory to race at this year’s TT! All-new bike AND William Dunlop riding it in the Zero TT race
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Victory Motorcycles is returning with the Victory Racing team to compete in the Isle of Man TT Zero race with an all-new electric race bike called the Victory RR. The Victory RR electric motorcycle has been developed over the past year using data gathered during last year’s TT Zero and will be ridden by…
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Suzuki announces MotoGP split from Maverick Vinales (like we said would happen today)
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Suzuki announces MotoGP split from Maverick Vinales (like we said would happen today). As we told you last week, and then again at the start of this week, Maverick Vinales has already signed the contract for him to switch from Suzuki to Yamaha in MotoGP across the 2017/18 seasons. The deal was signed away last…
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Cool vintage bike model kits go on sale in Japan (GPZ900R… oh yes…)
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We’ve been sent notification from Japan that these kits of classic modern retro Japanese superbikes are on sale. Yep, we want them as much as you do… these things look pretty good to us. The kits aren’t cheap – you can order then directly from the Amazon page which we’ve posted at the bottom of…
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Super hero motorcycle leathers go on sale in the States… no, we’re not making this up
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Ok… so there’s fanboy suits and then there’s fanboy suits that are supposedly a set of leathers that you can ride a motorcycle in. Here’s three of the latter. The two Batman suits and one Superman suit have been made by American firm UD Replicas. Chunky Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent wannabes who want to…
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Video: Fancy a bike in the mush?
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Here’s a video to underline just how quickly things can go wrong on track – end of a track session, one rider coasting around – another clips him – and the following rider gets a face full of superbike pretty quickly. Ouch. Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9j9EmfZjCQ It reminds us of this crash in British Superbikes that…
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Video: A few Spanish corners on the Yamaha MT-10
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Here’s a nice little video of a few corners with Yamaha’s new MT-10, the R1-powered big naked 2016 model. Not much more to say about this other than it’s the sort of video that has no yabbering on but in a few corners tells you a bit about how the bike goes about its business…
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MotoGP: Ducati confirms Dovi for 2017/18 ride. Iannone is out (as we told you first)
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So, remember when we told you earlier on that Ducati had decided on Andrea Dovizioso as it’s rider alongside Jorge Lorenzo for 2017 and 2018? And that means that Andrea Iannone is out of a Ducati ride and now is gunning to take over the Suzuki berth vacated by Maverick Vinales with the contract signed…
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