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Launch ride: 2017 Yamaha TMAX DX
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Out of maybe twenty motorcyclists coming the other way, only two returned my waves. Why should they? Yamaha’s TMAX DX isn’t a ‘proper’ bike – it’s an automatic… pah; what soft biker is going to want that? And it’s got enough space under the seat for up to one full-face and one open-face lid. Or…
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Launch ride: 2017 Yamaha MT-10 SP & Tourer Edition
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Yamaha’s MT-10 is a stunning machine. Launched last year, the company was keen to stress that it wasn’t ‘just’ an R1 with wide bars, though given the fact that it uses the hyper-sports bike’s frame, swingarm, suspension and headlights, not to mention many of the crossplane crank motor’s main parts, you’d be forgiven for thinking…
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Video: Triumph Street Cup
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Triumph seems to be taking the task of attracting new people into motorcycling very seriously. Only days after the launch of the new Street Triples – a family of bikes that includes not only the 765cc inline triples, but also a dedicated 660cc version that can be restricted for A2 licence-holders – I was in…
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Triumph’s Bonneville Bobber and Street Scrambler hits dealers
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Triumph’s Bonneville Bobber and Street Scrambler hits dealers. The wait is finally over for Triumph fans as the arrival of two new iconic models, the Bonneville Bobber (above) and Street Scrambler, make their dealership debuts in a series of launch evenings across the UK on Thursday 23rd February. Priced at £10,500 and powered by the 1200cc…
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Launch ride: Ducati Scrambler Desert Sled
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Words: Alastair Fagan Photography: Milagro Just days after Ducati announced another record-breaking year for the Bologna factory in 2016, we were riding a new version of its pivotal sales success in Almeria, Spain. The Scrambler family has sold 32,000 units during the first two years of existence (roughly 16,000 each year) and ensured Ducati featured…
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Honda’s secret SUPERCHARGED engine patents REVEALED
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Honda is planning a new, supercharged motorcycle that will have the power-boosting unit mounted on the left-hand side of the engine. And the new kit will power a host of new motorcycles over the next few years. These are the patent drawings for the new motor with the supercharger system in place. Don’t be…
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Launch ride: Triumph Street Scrambler
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The iconic Triumph Scrambler is back, reincarnated as the new Street Scrambler The Street Twin has been the best-selling bike in the 2016 water-cooled Bonneville range, so it was only a matter of time until Triumph added more flavour to the accessible end of its modern classic range. Enter stage the Street Scrambler, the latest…
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Triumph reveals new Street Triple range – higher spec, 765cc engines AND an A2 licence friendly 660cc bike!
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Triumph reveals new Street Triple range – higher spec, 765cc engines AND an A2 licence friendly 660cc bike! Ten years since the launch of the original Street Triple, Triumph has pulled the covers off a trio of new middleweight street fighters, the Street Triple S, Street Triple R and Street Triple RS. Triumph calls…
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine!
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Oh boy! Yamaha’s plans for an XSR300 (the NEW RD350 retro) revealed in Japanese magazine! Here’s a story from our friends in Japan that’s going to get the motorcycle world hopping around in New Year excitement – a return of the RD350! Kind of! What this story surrounds is news from our friends at Japanese…
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Video: Final episode of Yamaha’s Master of Torque (MT series of bikes based animation) is now live
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Video: Final episode of Yamaha’s Master of Torque (MT series of bikes based animation) is now live. Umm… we’ve shown you previous episodes of this series before, it’s a Japanese animation from Yamaha that’s you’re usual Japanese motorcycle cartoon fare – but this stuff is centered around riding bikes from the MT series of…
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