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  • Indian Motorcycles launches the new Springfield

    Indian Motorcycles launches the new Springfield

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    Indian Motorcycle has just launched the new Indian Springfield, featuring a removable quick-release windshield and hard, all-weather, remote-locking saddlebags. These clip-on touring features mean that the Springfield can be ridden as a fully-loaded tourer or stripped down into a cruiser by removing the windshield and saddlebags. The bike looks similar to the Indian Chief Vintage,…

  • Image appears of what CB250X mini-Adventure bike will look like

    Image appears of what CB250X mini-Adventure bike will look like

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      We brought you the news about a Honda CB250X mini-Crossrunner type of bike that a Honda boss had let slip about a few days ago and now this image has appeared. The emerging markets of Indonesia and Malaysia have been buzzing with the news that the little Adventure bike is on the way and…

  • Review: Three-layer system from EDZ

    Review: Three-layer system from EDZ

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    Reviewed by: Mikko Nieminen // RRP: Base layer £50 / Mid-layer £30 / Innershell £50 // Sizes: XS-3XL // Colours: Base layer: black, graphite, green, red, purple / Mid-layer: black, red, blue / Innershell: black EDZ is a Cumbria-based specialist clothing brand that has been in business since 1995. This three-layer system is its answer…

  • Behold! The 360 degree, spherical tyre of the future!

    Behold! The 360 degree, spherical tyre of the future!

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    So what do you think to this future-concept spherical 360 tyre from Goodyear? This idea, called the Eagle-360, has been debuted at the Geneva Motor Show and although it looks largely like one of those wishful-thinking projects it does throw up a couple of ideas that are incredibly interesting for our next-generation rubber interaction. In…

  • Marquez: “Things are a bit tough!”

    Marquez: “Things are a bit tough!”

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    Marquez: “Things are a bit tough!” Marc Marquez admits he is struggling on corner exit as he ended the first day of the Qatar Test in tenth, over a second off the pace. Marquez headed out at half past five, and ended his work with one hour to go in the session, when temperatures began…

  • SCOOP: Suzuki patents for hydrogen-powered fuel cell super scoot revealed

    SCOOP: Suzuki patents for hydrogen-powered fuel cell super scoot revealed

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        SCOOP: Suzuki patents for hydrogen-powered fuel cell super scoot revealed. Suzuki has now published patents that it has filed for its first road-legal hydrogen-powered fuel-cell super scooter. This is a significant move from the Japanese factory which has been working on the technology for a few years now and has already shown its…

  • Yamaha patents stop/start technology

    Yamaha patents stop/start technology

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    Yamaha patents stop/start technology. Yamaha has filed a patent for an auto-stop scooter. The design is not model specific but a patent at this stage usually means that the technology will be included on a current model for the following year’s run – so expect this to be included in some 2017 model. Yamaha is…

  • MotoGP at Losail – Honda, Yamaha and Ducati all run their fairing ‘wings’ testing programme

    MotoGP at Losail – Honda, Yamaha and Ducati all run their fairing ‘wings’ testing programme

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      MotoGP at Losail – Honda, Yamaha and Ducati all run their fairing ‘wings’ testing programme. Honda joined the MotoGP wing party when it went out for part of the first day of testing at Losail, Qatar in the MotoGP tests with winglets on the factory MotoGP machine. Following in the testing wake of Yamaha…

  • Lorenzo quickest at day one of the Losail MotoGP test

    Lorenzo quickest at day one of the Losail MotoGP test

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    Jorge Lorenzo dominated the timesheets in the final MotoGP test before the 2016 season with a commadning performance in Losail, Qatar.  As the track opened at 16:00 Local Time, it was only Michele Pirro, Hiroshi Aoyama and Takuya Tsuda who rushed out on track, the three test riders given the responsibility of assessing track conditions.…

  • Rossi at Losail MotoGP test, ten corners in and falls: “It was a small slide at 70kph”

    Rossi at Losail MotoGP test, ten corners in and falls: “It was a small slide at 70kph”

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    The Qatar Test gets off to the worst possible start for Valentino Rossi who fell on his first lap, recovering to finish third. Qatar hosts the third and final MotoGP World Championship test of 2016, one last chance for riders to improve their machines before the start of the year. The Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team…


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