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This Saturday at Stafford: Barry Sheene’s 1975 Daytona crash helmet (yeah, that one, the smashed up one) is up for auction for £4k
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This Saturday at Stafford: Barry Sheene’s 1975 Daytona crash helmet (yeah, that one, the smashed up one) is up for auction for £4k. How do you fancy owning the most famous crash helmet in the motorcycle universe? Well you can do just that if you bid on Barry Sheene’s 1974 Bell racing helmet – the…
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Kawasaki unveils new KLX250 D-Tracker Final Edition
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Kawasaki unveils new KLX250 D-Tracker Final Edition. Kawasaki has shown this over the weekend in Japan, the new KLX250 D-Tracker. The on/off-road bike may have been around in various forms since the mid-1980s but this is the end of the line, according to Japanese journalists this morning. The model is called the X Final Edition…
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Honda suspends Kumamoto, Japan, factory following earthquakes over the weekend
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Honda Motor Co. and Toyota were among companies that suspended operations on Friday after a powerful earthquake struck Kyushu, damaging factories and supply chains. Flights and trains were also disrupted after the 6.5 quake, which struck at around 9:26pm on Thursday. Another quake hit the area on Saturday also. 41 people are known to have…
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Meet the Chinese R3 copy that’s gone up to 350cc and gets four silencers!
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Meet the Chinese R3 copy that’s gone up to 350cc and gets four silencers! Check this out for the latest, probably most blatant copy we’ve seen coming out China yet. No, it’s not a Yamaha R3 but a 350cc (we think) copy of the Japanese bike, another mystery bike is pictured alongside and that looks…
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Brits Kyle Smith and Gino Rea bag 1-2 at Assen WSS
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Kyle Smith has won the WorldSSP race at the TT Circuit Assen, with the podium completed by GRT rider Gino Rea and Puccetti reigning Champion Kenan Sofuoglu in incredibly difficult conditions. It was Sofuoglu who got the best start, with PJ Jacobsen slotting into P2 off the second row, leaving poleman Krummenacher in P4 chasing…
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Rea romps to two second Assen weekend win in WSB
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KRT rider Jonathan Rea took a second incredible WSB win in the Netherlands in Race 2 as a half-wet half-dry race saw tyre decisions play the key role. Joined on the podium by teammate Tom Sykes and local lad Michael van der Mark. Sunday morning initially brought better weather to the TT Circuit Assen, with…
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Video: Shocking moment huge gravel truck unloads onto biker and pillion (everyone is OK, miraculously)
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Video: Shocking moment huge gravel truck unloads onto biker and pillion (everyone is OK, miraculously). This is the terrifying moment a motorcyclist and pillion in China were nearly crushed under a huge truck full of gravel. Captured on CCTV cameras mounted above the junction, you can see the driver realise that the motorcycle was…
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WSB: Alex Lowes fastest in soggy conditions at Assen
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More rain characterized the second practice session at the TT Circuit Assen, with Alex Lowes topping the timesheets from FP1’s fastest man Tom Sykes. Lowes’ Yamaha teammate Sylvain Guintoli was third quickest, as the Pata Yamaha duo again put in a strong performance. Barni Racing’s Xavi Forés was the fastest Ducati in fourth, ahead of…
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You can buy Guy Martin’s ACTUAL TT Fireblade for the same price as a new Blade!
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How do you fancy owning Guy Martin’s TT Honda Fireblade? Well you can at the upcoming Bonhams auction at the Stafford show on April 23-24. The bike has a reserve price of £12,000 – £16,000, so it’s not the out of the reach of quite a few bike fans out there who are after a…
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Speed cameras? Ha! Where we’re going, we don’t NEED speed cameras! Gulp…
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Speed cameras? Ha! Where we’re going, we don’t NEED speed cameras! Gulp… Electronics giant Bosch has said that it plans on connecting motorcycles to the Cloud storage system in the future. And there’s a reason why we should all be concerned… In a document from the company that’s been sent to us at MoreBikes, the…
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