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Suzuki confirms price for new SV650 – £5,499 all-in
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Suzuki has confirmed pricing for the new SV650 and announced its inclusion on the Suzuki Finance PCP scheme, with the sporty, naked middleweight coming with an RRP of £5,499, and available for £95 per month. Unveiled at EICMA in November, the SV650 has 60 changes to its V-twin engine and 70 new chassis components, increasing…
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Triumph Thruxton R world launch review
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WORDS: MSL Editor, John Milbank PHOTOGRAPHY: Alessio Barbanti, Matteo Cavadini, Paul Barshon and Friedemann Kirn We rode the Thruxton R, which starting at £11,700 is the pinnacle of the new Bonneville range; the Thruxton is a similar machine, though at £10,400 has more classically–styled right-way-up forks, and the same Nissin two-piston calipers and fixed…
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WSB in Asia – the facts ahead of this weekend’s round in Thailand
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WorldSBK has a long history of racing in Asia, with more than a tenth of the races in the history of the Championship having taken place in the continent: 70 out of the 696 run to date. Asia also hosted a WorldSBK race weekend in the first season of the Championship in 1988, that beginning…
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Triumph Bonneville T120 world launch review
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WORDS: MSL Editor, John Milbank PHOTOGRAPHY: Alessio Barbanti, Matteo Cavadini, Paul Barshon and Friedemann Kirn This is the core of the new Bonneville family –Triumph has focussed closely on the design of the machine, giving it cleaner lines than the outgoing 865cc Bonneville T100. The ride-by-wire engine for instance, while 335cc larger and now…
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Suzi Perry confirmed for BT Sport MotoGP coverage
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We told you first about this deal last week – and it’s now been confirmed that Suzi Perry is going to present MotoGP on BT Sport this year. She’s not just going to deal with MotoGP though as the announcement from BT Sport makes clear. Here’s the actual release about Suzi’s next move: TV presenter…
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VIDEO: Suzuki MotoGP team film from testing
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Here’s the latest video from Suzuki MotoGP squad ahead of the 2016 season. In the film Aleix Espargaró talks about season preparation, the new GSX-RR, using the new Michelin tyres; and his relationship and bonding with the Team SUZUKI ECSTAR family. It’s a pretty standard team film, but it’s nice to see the bike in…
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VIDEO: It all kicks off (ha!) during biker/taxi Liverpool scrap
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This video is all a bit ‘handbags’ but it’s quite funny to have a look at on a drab day like the one we’ve got going on right now. The argument got a bit physical outside a hospital in Liverpool. We don’t know much more about what happened than what we can see on film,…
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VIDEO: Roland Sands Panigale 1299S – the KH9. Awesome metal.
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VIDEO: Roland Sands Panigale 1299S – the KH9. Awesome metal. Check out this gorgeous 1299S Panigale that’s been dipped in the styling world of American specials builder Roland Sands. This is the first of a couple of Ducatis that Sands is adding his touch to, on its way is a Superlegerra Cafe Racer (yep… we…
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VIDEO: Electric Powered Odyssey trailer
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VIDEO: Electric Powered Odyssey trailer. Check out this really quite lovely bit of film which is a teaser for a film called Electric Powered Odyssey. The idea is that rider Thomas Tomczyk (pictured) is riding an electric bike from Philadelphia in America to Patagonia in Argentina – a distance of 12,000 miles. He’s documenting the…
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Guy Martin to race David Coulthard in Channel 4 TV show
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If you’ve not had enough of your Guy Martin fix for the year then tune in to Channel 4 on Thursday, March 17th at 9pm to see the sideburned chap pit a BMW S1000RR against David Coulthard in a V8 Red Bull F1 car. It’s part of the build up to the channel showing F1…
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