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Indian riders get huge sunscreens put up at junctions to save them from the baking sun
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How about this for a feelgood biking story then? Officials in Nagpur, India noticed that motorcycle riders were getting too hot when waiting at junctions for a gap in the traffic during the nearly 40 degree heat in the midday sun (wow). So, to give the riders a helping hand, the powers that be decided…
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KTM announces official range of PowerParts for awesome 690 singles
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The model year 2016 KTM 690 Duke and 690 Duke R are the most powerful and technically advanced single-cylinder machines available. Although they boast a long list of new features and refinements, KTM knows its riders still need to modify their bikes and so a diverse range of official PowerParts are available. Both new Duke models –…
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Yard Built Heads to Turkey for a Tracker Style XSR700 by Bunker Custom Motorcycles
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With spring well and truly underway Yamaha heads to Istanbul in Turkey to collaborate with a new member of the Yard Built family, Bunker Custom Motorcycles. Brothers, Can and Mert Uzer are not your typical custom bike builders. Can is a top level skateboarder with the Vans Turkey Skateboarding Team, while Mert recently gave…
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Zenith reached: once this happens it’s game over for the hipster bikers, surely?
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OK, maybe the custom-thing isn’t actually over as such – but we’re all a bit open-jawed having seen these pictures. This was a 1996 Honda XR650L that’s been given a, quote: “More rugged and ready-for-anything aesthetic”. Umm… OK. It looks quite ridiculous to us, but someone out there loves it enough to have it built…
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Sheene’s Daytona lid sells for £15,625 at auction – Guy Martin’s Blade goes for £14,720
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Barry Sheene’s helmet – the smashed up one he fell in whilst testing at Daytona in 1975 – sold for £15,625 at the Bonhams auction at the weekend. Bearing Sheene’s iconic black and gold paintjob and featuring the the famous Donald Duck emblem the helmet was one used by Sheene across the 1974 and 1975…
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Podcast: Exclusive interview with Mason Law
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In association with Kawasaki. Mason Law is the hottest, newest property in the British Supersport Championship for 2016. We caught up with the Gearlink Kawasaki star to go through everything in his racing head at the start of the season.
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Video: Brilliant drifting on a 50cc bike with plastic-coated rear tyre and loonie on board
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Check this amazing video out of a genuinely-lovable biking nutter and his mates having a laugh with a 50cc bike and plastic-covered rear tyre. There’s not that much more that we can say about this other than it’s REALLY made us laugh today and it’s just joyous. We’ve got two videos for you here –…
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German press shows this: Mega six-cylinder naked with six exhausts and K1600 engine… yeah…
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OK, so this is a rumour – and from what we can gather from our German cousins on the excellent Motorrad magazine, there’s little to move this story on from that rather precarious position – but still, check this story out! What we have here is the illustration by Stefan Kraft that shows a massive…
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Stafford auction: World Record smashed for rusty Brough Superior! £331,900 for this!
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Bonhams Stafford Sale set a new world record price for a Brough Superior and for any British motorcycle sold at auction, as the gavel fell at an astounding £331,900 for the 1938 Brough Superior 750cc BS4 at the weekend. The BS4 was the highlight lot in the collection ‘The Broughs of Bodmin Moor’, which…
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Spied: Rossi’s next phase of MotoGP bike development spotted in Jerez. And Lorenzo hasn’t got this on his bike!
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A keen-eyed snapper for website GPOne.com caught this new bit of kit on Valentino Rossi’s factory Yamaha at Jerez. It’s a sensor that’s been fitted to the clutch on the nine-times world champion’s bike. The arm, and data-logging equipment that goes with it, was only fitted to Rossi’s bike and wasn’t seen on Lorenzo’s machine. Given…
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