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Pirelli and Metzeler £30 cashback offers
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Pirelli and Metzeler are offering £30 cashback when you buy and have fitted in-store, a pair of selected tyres. The offer is now live and the campaign runs until the end of June 2016. Pirelli tyres eligible for cashback are: Rosso III, Angel GT Supercorsa SP V2, Rosso Corsa, Scorpion Trail and Trail II. For…
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Video: 6kg, 3D printed frame bike unveiled by plane giant Airbus
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6kg, 3D printed frame bike unveiled by plane giant Airbus. Check out this 3D printed bike that might look like a super-funky mountain-bike/motorcycle crossbreed but is actually the first step by Aeronautic giant Airbus into the world of two-wheelers. Called Light Rider, the bike is the world’s first 3D printed bike and is capable of…
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Test ride an Indian – get a limited edition Chief Dark Horse poster
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Bikers test riding any Indian Motorcycle at their local dealership this month will walk away with a free limited edition Chief Dark Horse poster (while supplies last). The poster was created by stencil artist Mathew Curran who sliced and diced card into various stencil layers to create the outline of the Chief Dark Horse and then spray painted…
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Video: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pulls a huge Ducati Streetfighter wheelie
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Video: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pulls a huge Ducati Streetfighter wheelie. So this is a mash-up of two things from your childhood that might just have come together in a pretty decent family movie that’s just about to hit the cinemas. Yes, it’s a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle wheelieing a Ducati Streetfighter. Yes, we like…
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Video: Rossi’s helmet painter Aldo Drudi has moved to bikes – and he’s designed this!
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Rossi’s helmet painter Aldo Drudi has moved to bikes – and he’s designed this! So here’s Drudi’s first motorcycle – the Burasca 1200. Made in collaboration with bike builders Air Garage and Honda Italia, the bike is – essentially – a Honda VFR1200F with Ohlins NIX 30 forks and TTX GP 36 rear shock. The…
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MotoGP bosses appoint bodyguards to Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez for this weekend’s Mugello round
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MotoGP bosses appoint bodyguards to Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez for this weekend’s Mugello round. MotoGP bosses at Dorna have laid on bodyguards to look after Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez at this weekend’s race event at Mugello, Italy. The move comes after last year’s championship round and the aggressive outpouring from some sectors of…
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Google patents ‘sticky bonnet’ solution for driverless cars hitting pedestrians (and bikers, we assume)
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Check out this new patent from Google (and no, we’re not making this up) for a semi-collapsing front end of a car that’s covered in super sticky glue. The idea is that when the firm’s driverless cars have an incident with pedestrians, wildlife, cyclists or motorcyclists (we assume) the front end of the car…
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Guy Martin’s new SPEED challenge – human-powered blimp across the channel…
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If you’re missing your Guy Martin fix then here’s a behind-the-scenes picture that should have you smiling. This shot was snapped during filming for the upcoming third series of SPEED with the Lincolnshire man. That’s Guy with his back to the camera in the standard bobble hat. The series will be shown later in the…
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MotoGP Preview: Why Mugello could end up being the Race of the Year (and then some)
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MotoGP Preview: Why Mugello could end up being the Race of the Year (and then some). If the events of the past week have shown us anything it’s that this weekend’s round of the MotoGP championship could be the best ever – and possibly the first premier class race in the championship where we end…
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Video: Rossi meets the Yamaha Motobot!
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It’s the first time that the nine-times world champion has met his electronic counterpart – and it’s all a bit weird. This video has been released by Yamaha and shows the man who’s staying with Yamaha in MotoGP for the 2017 and 2018 seasons having a bit of a poke and prod around the robot…
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