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  • Meet the HARLEY-DAVIDSON Adventure bike! Yeah!

    Meet the HARLEY-DAVIDSON Adventure bike! Yeah!

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    Meet the HARLEY-DAVIDSON Adventure bike! Yeah! This is the big surprise of the Bangkok Motor Show – with awesome coverage by the chaps at the Rushlane website – and it’s is happening right now, it’s a 2016 Street 750 Harley-Davidson that’s been converted into an Adventure bike. And although the official word is that this…

  • SCOOP video: Suzuki SV650 Rally Concept walkaround film

    SCOOP video: Suzuki SV650 Rally Concept walkaround film

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    Check out this video walkaround of the Suzuki SV650 Rally Concept. Basically this is little more than a bolt-on bitsa from Suzuki which was shown at the Osaka motorcycle show at the weekend. Under the additional bodywork bits, new seat and odd-looking backside is a piggyback Yoshimura exhaust (nice) and the new SV650 from the…

  • SCOOP Video: Osaka Show Hondas walkaround (check out the CB Type II concept!)

    SCOOP Video: Osaka Show Hondas walkaround (check out the CB Type II concept!)

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    Video: Osaka Show Hondas walkaround (check out the CB Type II concept!) Here’s a walkaround video of the Hondas at the Osaka Motorcycle show 2016. The show happened at the weekend and really there wasn’t much there other than a dressed up Africa Twin, the City Adventure high-legged suspension, the CRF250 prototype (again…) and the…

  • Kawasaki’s plan for new 800 naked appear with adjustable bodywork and more sporty aspirations

    Kawasaki’s plan for new 800 naked appear with adjustable bodywork and more sporty aspirations

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    Kawasaki has pushed through another update for it’s big naked model range with an as-yet-specified model getting updated bodywork and a more sporty riding position. The model is likely to end up in the 2017 model range and the drawing has just been filed with details of an updated air intake into the motor (although…

  • Honda’s new motorcycle hybrid engine appears in published patent

    Honda’s new motorcycle hybrid engine appears in published patent

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    This image has appeared showing a patent drawing from Honda for a hybrid electric/petrol engine that’s destined for a motorcycle. Although the patent is not exactly new it is the first time we’ve seen this design set out in this way and specified for a motorcycle on the engine description. The bulk of the design…

  • UK FIRST: Plug-and play cornering bike headlight

    UK FIRST: Plug-and play cornering bike headlight

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    MoreBikes.co.uk and our sister magazine, Motorcycle Sport & Leisure, are the first in the UK to test the incredible new JW Speaker 8790 Adaptive Cornering Headlight. MSL is building a special Yard Built Yamaha XSR700 that you’ll be able to see on the Yamaha stand at 2016’s Motorcycle Live in the NEC. Intended to be…

  • Spy Shots: KTM 390 Duke gets updated for 2017

    Spy Shots: KTM 390 Duke gets updated for 2017

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    Spy Shots: KTM 390 Duke gets updated for 2017 These are the latest pictured of the next-generation KTM 390 Duke which is currently undergoing consumption tests in Spain. Pictures, grabbed by our top spy snapper as the bike was riding a twisty route abroad show that the small bike is undergoing a host of changes…

  • Triumph Thruxton R world launch review

    Triumph Thruxton R world launch review

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    WORDS: MSL Editor, John Milbank PHOTOGRAPHY: Alessio Barbanti, Matteo Cavadini, Paul Barshon and Friedemann Kirn   We rode the Thruxton R, which starting at £11,700 is the pinnacle of the new Bonneville range; the Thruxton is a similar machine, though at £10,400 has more classically–styled right-way-up forks, and the same Nissin two-piston calipers and fixed…

  • Triumph Bonneville T120 world launch review

    Triumph Bonneville T120 world launch review

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    WORDS: MSL Editor, John Milbank PHOTOGRAPHY: Alessio Barbanti, Matteo Cavadini, Paul Barshon and Friedemann Kirn   This is the core of the new Bonneville family –Triumph has focussed closely on the design of the machine, giving it cleaner lines than the outgoing 865cc Bonneville T100. The ride-by-wire engine for instance, while 335cc larger and now…

  • VIDEO: Electric Powered Odyssey trailer

    VIDEO: Electric Powered Odyssey trailer

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    VIDEO: Electric Powered Odyssey trailer. Check out this really quite lovely bit of film which is a teaser for a film called Electric Powered Odyssey. The idea is that rider Thomas Tomczyk (pictured) is riding an electric bike from Philadelphia in America to Patagonia in Argentina – a distance of 12,000 miles. He’s documenting the…


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