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Guy Martin’s Land Speed record dashed (apparently)
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Oh no! It looks like Guy Martin’s dream of getting out in the Triumph Streamliner 1000bhp Rocket III missile for a crack at the Land Speed record may have been sidelined because of bad weather. The governing body looking after the event, due to be held at the end of August, have – according to…
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Hot gossip: New Ducati motor to power super-multistrada
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There’s a hot rumour today that Ducati has built a new large capacity engine for new models that will start to appear in the firm’s 2016 range. According to factory insiders, the motor will have Ducati Variable Timing (DVT) and will be put into a new sport-touring bike. We’ve got no more on this motor…
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SCOOP: Mega monkey bike designs surface
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This is the cad cam design that shows the next bike to come from CFMoto – and it shows that the Chinese firm thinks that the super-Monkey bike styling is the way to go. Based around a 125 or 150cc air-cooled motor this bike is all new. The firm also announced that recent designs…
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New 250 Adventure bike breaks cover
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What do you reckon to this new tourer then? It might look like your everyday big adventure bike but the reality is that this is a 250cc adventure bike – and it’s now on sale. Made by Chinese firm Aeon and sold under the name Overbikes, the Tourer 250 has a single-cylinder with fuel-injection and…
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Stolen TT Victory bike recovered from thief’s house
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The Victory electric TT podium finishing race bike has been found having been stolen from the firm’s headquarters at the weekend. The bike that Irishman Lee Johnston rode to the podium in the Isle of Man TT Zero race event in June has been returned to Brammo Headquarters in Talent, Oregon after police tracked the machine…
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Fancy buying Chris Pratt’s Jurassic World Scrambler?
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On 23rd July Triumph Motorcycles will auction the iconic Scrambler ridden by Chris Pratt in the global summer blockbuster film, Jurassic World. The bespoke bike, featured racing alongside Raptors in the film, will be sold by eBay to the highest bidder, with the proceeds going to Triumph’s nominated fundraising partner, The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride. Three…
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Video: AMAZING riding over Romaniacs course. Watch this!
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This is AWESOMELY good. What we have here is an on-board with Alfredo Gomez during the Prolog of this year’s Romaniacs super-enduro round. It’s mental. And jaw-dropping. Watch the video and realise that, to some, physics and fear don’t apply. And if your mate at work who doesn’t ride watches this and tells you it’s…
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Victory’s TT electric racebike nicked!
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This is probably the world’s first theft of a major electric motorcycle – and it happened over the weekend. The Victory/Brammo bike that raced in this year’s Zero TT has been stolen from the Brammo Company headquarters in Talent, Oregon, USA. The bike bagged third place in the one lap outing in the hands of…
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Get yourself to Europe’s largest off-road show (and it’s here in the UK!)
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INTERNATIONAL DIRT BIKE SHOW: Thursday 29th October to Sunday 1st November 2015, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire The International Dirt Bike Show at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry in Warwickshire, has become something of an annual, must-do event for dirt biking aficionados. BUT … you don’t have to be completely fanatical about off-road to enjoy the…
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Brit kid Brad Ray bags Moto2 Wildcard
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British teenager Bradley Ray will make his Grand Prix debut at the Silverstone MotoGP, after being granted a wildcard into the British Moto2GP onboard an FTR. After careful negotiations between Steve Bones and Roger Keys, Brad’s manager, the former owner of the FTR factory has agreed to loan his FTR machine for use at this year’s…
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