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Kawasaki put slipper clutch and ABS on Z1000SX for 2016
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Kawasaki has added ABS and a slipper clutch to the Z1000SX for 2016, it’s also updated the colours on the Versys 1000. Both models can be had on the firm’s finance scheme too. Here’s what Kawasaki itself says about the changes: Kawasaki’s number one best seller has been upgraded for 2016 with a number of…
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VIDEO of Troy Bayliss’ Pro 450 flat track crash into the boards!
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Here’s video of Troy Bayliss’ Pro 450 flat track crash into the boards! The BSB and WSB champion has broken his back, ribs, collarbone and thumb in a crunching crash during the AMA Pro 450 Senior flat track race in Taree, Australia yesterday. Here’s a couple of videos that we’ve been sent, the first is…
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SCOOP WSB and BSB champion Troy Bayliss has broken his back!
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WSB and BSB champion Troy Bayliss has fractured his back! It happened in a horrible fall at the 450 Australian Senior Track championship. It happened yesterday when Bayliss lost control of his bike and slammed into the boards that surround the edge of the dirt circuit. Bayliss was competing in Aussie Senor Track Chmapionship in…
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VIDEO 1989 OWO1 Yamaha full-on at the Classic TT
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Watch this video of a 1989 OWO1 Yamaha full-on at the Classic TT Races, this year. The bike Manxman Dan Kneen is riding is the late ’80s bike in Valvoline Padgett’s colours. Make sure you turn the volume up loud for this one, the majority of the video has the bike on the ragged edge,…
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This is the Reise Custom BMW R100RS. It rocks.
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This is the Reise Custom BMW R100RS. It was a pretty much standard BMW R100RS from 1982 and then Slovenian bike builder Luka Cimolini got his hands on it. And it rocks. Cimolini has changed the name from RS to RC (it means Reise Sport originally, this bike is the Resie Custom). He said: “I…
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VIDEO Awesome Track Moto motorcycle dolly
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Check out the Track Moto motorcycle dolly, it’s made by a Brazilian company and it’s pretty awesome. Does anyone fancy importing this excellent bit of garage kit into the UK because we’d like to get our hands on one of these, very much indeed. https://youtu.be/_JlgeUaf4wE The dolly can take up to 400kg and the plate…
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SCOOP Suzuki superbike V-twin engine and exhaust revealed in patent drawings
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There is a new Suzuki superbike V-twin engine and exhaust system that has been revealed in patent plans. The Japanese factory is working on a new, slimmer version of it’s V-twin engine. The drawings show the latest arm in the development of the bike, which focuses on the newly-designed extremely narrow exhaust tubing with built-in,…
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SCOOP Yamaha MT-03 official pictures and details! Revealed in Japan
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Yamaha MT-03 has been officially confirmed as part of it’s line up for 2016 and here’s the pictures for it. Yamaha Japan has listed the bike on it’s website. It weighs around 4kg less than the YZF-R3 and makes just more than 41bhp. Yamaha MT-03, the range and what this means The bike is the…
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Harley-Davidson Street 750 first ride review
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The Harley-Davidson Street 750 is the latest addition to the American firm’s Dark Custom range, which was launched in the US back in 2008. But it’s also the key to what Harley-Davidson is calling its rebirth during a two-day launch in Barcelona. “Don’t think black,” we were told in the presentation: “Think blank.” Dark Custom is…
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UPDATE: R1200S 2016 BMW superbike gets hi-tech spec
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More news about the much-rumoured-by-the-Germans 2016 BMW Superbike – the R1200S. According to our journalist friends who have more than one finger in the pie of what’s on the horizon with the Munich lot, they’ve been told that the bike which is meant to be part of the 2016 range is apparently going to be…
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