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Meet ‘Zecoo’. The world’s funkiest electric bike (and it’s real)
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Normally, we’re not so bowled over by one-off electric scooters – but then, every now and then, we see one that looks like this. This is called the ‘Zecoo’ (urgh) and is built in Japan by a group calling themselves Kota Nezu. We don’t know that much about this bike at the moment other than…
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KTM issues recall on 2014 1290 Super Duke
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KTM has issued a recall of the 2014 1290 Super Duke because of fears that the bike’s petrol tank could leak fuel. The announcement has been made in various markets around the world, because the tank construction was outsourced the factory says that it can be sure that the issue is only applicable to…
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Rhys gets to Ireland – almost home for 2mororider
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Our Rhys Lawrey, aka 2mororider, is almost at the end of his world-record-smshing global ride after 15 months of riding on his Triumph Tiger 800. Riding more than 56,000 miles through 70 countries, he has survived a collision with a car in China, food poisoning in Kazakhstan, extreme bureaucracy and terrible roads in Turkmenistan and…
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Woman driver crashes into fish van whilst ‘distracting herself’ when driving
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As bikers, we’ve all heard about the dangers to us posed by seriously distracted drivers – and we all know how lethal people behind the wheel not paying attention can be, but this report takes the biscuit. According to the Gloucestershire Echo a woman crashed her Mini Cooper into the back of a fish van…
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Supercharged Honda super-commuter on the way
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Just in case anyone out there is still unsure of where modern motorcycling is heading then here’s ANOTHER supercharged motorcycle in the pipeline. Honda has released a patent for a (effectively) NC700X supercharged bike. In the patents the supercharger, intercooler and other bolt-ons are mounted in the space within the dummy fuel tank – which…
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Podcast 20: BSB podium man Dan Linfoot
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MoreBikes has been chatting to the very likeable BSB podium man Dan Linfoot. The Honda rider didn’t hold back when talking about the recent injury, his amazing start to the season and how competitive the ageing Honda Fireblade really is. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/214681353″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]
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Three old BMWs into one gets you a nitrous hound
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We love this bike, as much for what it was (and now is) as for how funky it has ended up. This was a BMW R80 RT from the late 1980s, even better is that this was a POLICE BMW R80 RT from the late 1980s! The bike still carried its original blue…
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SCOOP: Yamaha’s 2016 electric production bikes revealed
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Reports are in this morning that Yamaha WILL launch its first production electric motorbikes in 2016 – and we will get to see the firm’s proddie electric tech in both on and off-road incarnations. Patents have been revealed that show two bikes and it’s clear that each is based very closely indeed on concept…
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The Ghostbusters get on their bike in new film
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Who ya gonna call? Well, if it’s a ghost problem you’ve got then it’ll be a squad of Ghostbusters pottering about in some part on a battered old scrambler. On-set pictures from the re-make of the iconic 1980s film have surfaced and aside from the usual re-purposed hearse to get around in the new…
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30th Anniversary GSX-R colours revealed
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It’s the 30th anniversary of the production of the GSX-R, a bike that changed the motorcycle world. To mark the occasion Suzuki is painting the 1000cc bike in special colours that ape the original scheme. We’ve been sent the pictures and the bike looks very coo. Here’s what Suzuki itself says about the historic…
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