Sports Bikes
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Tokyo Motor Show SCOOP: Yamaha’s three-wheeler in more detail, 850cc three-cylinder motor in ‘sport riding’ weirdness
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Tokyo Motor Show SCOOP: Yamaha’s three-wheeler in more detail, 850cc three-cylinder motor in ‘sport riding’ weirdness. Here’s Yamaha’s tilting three-wheeler concept machine in much more detail, it was unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show today. Called the MWT-9 (although it has a cute name of ‘Cornering Master’) the bike has an MT-09-based 850cc…
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Tokyo Motor Show SCOOP: Kawasaki shows new supercharged engine (and what will become the S2 in a sketch)
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Tokyo Motor Show SCOOP: Kawasaki shows new supercharged engine (and what will become the S2 in a sketch). Months ago we brought you the first look at a raft of new supercharger patents from Kawasaki and said how these were going to be used in future bikes ranging from big tourers to everyday sporty…
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SCOOP: First pictures of finished 2016 Triumph Speed Triple R
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SCOOP: First pictures of finished 2016 Triumph Speed Triple R. These are the first pictures of the finished, new Triumph Speed Triple – an updated version of the bike for 2016. Outwardly there isn’t too much that look radically different to the standard 1050 we have now, but this is a heavily revised model which…
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Philippines kid makes own ‘Panigale’ – and does a good job of it
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Philippines kid makes own ‘Panigale’ – and does a good job of it! So what bike would you think this was, if you walked past it parked up? Yep, we didn’t realise this either, but this is actually a 150cc Yamaha SZ-R. Built up by a kid to look like a Panigale. The owner is…
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SCOOP: Video of the 2016 H2 Kawasaki hyperbike
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Kawasaki’s stunning H2 Ninja is getting tweaked further for 2016 – and here’s the video about it that shows next year’s model in all it’s new-colour glory. The new version of the bike gets a new screen, new colour and what looks like a revision to the exhaust, we’ll have to wait for…
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Free Motorcycle Live tickets for GSX-R owners
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Free Motorcycle Live tickets for GSX-R owners Great news if you have a GSX-R in the garage: Suzuki is giving GSX-R owners free tickets for this year’s Motorcycle Live, as part of the GSX-R 30th anniversary celebrations taking place over the course of the show. If you are a GSX-R owner, just head to www.suzuki-gb.co.uk/gsx-r…
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SCOOP: Shaft-driven Aprilia on the way! Patents show radical plan
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SCOOP: Shaft-driven Aprilia on the way! Patents show radical plan. We have been sent a new patent drawing that shows that Aprilia is planning a new SHAFT-DRIVE bike. Info is scarce at the moment and the only details we have is that the patent is callled: Homokinetic Motorcycle Transmission and Motorcycle Comprising Said Transmission, the…
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VIDEO: Stock H2R goes soooo fast over time trial tarmac mile
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VIDEO: Stock H2R goes soooo fast over time trial tarmac mile. Check out this awesome video of Team 38 topping 216mph for over a mile on a STOCK H2R during time trials. The bunch of Japense bikers. going under the name Team 38, was established in 1975 and work on developing Kawasaki bikes. They had…
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Yamaha’s NEXT-GEN FZ1 Fazer picture surfaces
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Yamaha’s NEXT-GEN FZ1 Fazer picture surfaces. We’ve known for a while that Yamaha is working on an updated, high-spec version of the FZ1 Fazer – most likely to be powered by a de-tuned R1 engine and here’s what the Japanese journalists talking to Yamaha reckon the bike will look like. As with whole ranges of…
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Yamaha’s weird and wonderful at the Tokyo Motor Show revealed
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Other news from the world of Yamaha in the run-up to the 44th Tokyo Motor Show. And there’s very little in the way of surprises – unless you count wood panels on a bike something of a surprise, that is. The single cylinder, 125cc Resonator125 (above) is a funky little concept bike that apes the…
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