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  • First Ride: 2020 Kawasaki Z1000SX Ninja

    First Ride: 2020 Kawasaki Z1000SX Ninja

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    By Dave Manning, Motorcycle Sport & Leisure magazine Bringing the top model in Kawasaki’s sport tourer range into line with the rest of the road bike range – giving it the Ninja moniker – isn’t just a nostalgic reminder of bikes like the original 1984 GPz900R, but gives the new Z1000SX a sportier sell, alongside…

  • Triumph teases launch of NEW Street Triple R. And it’s happening on February 11. Save the date.

    Triumph teases launch of NEW Street Triple R. And it’s happening on February 11. Save the date.

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    Triumph has just announced that there’s a new Street Triple R on the way – and we’re only going to have to wait another week to get our hands on all the details. Over the last couple of months, Triumph has released its Street Triple RS and S – so it’s not come as a…

  • MUST DO THIS: Go Off-Road with Beta Motorcycle Experience Days

    MUST DO THIS: Go Off-Road with Beta Motorcycle Experience Days

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    New for 2020, Beta Experience Days offer a challenging and safe introduction to off-roading, guided over dramatic terrain by top ‘Hard Enduro’ rider Wayne Braybrook. Aimed at road bike and Adventure Bike owners, this new Yorkshire based activity is backed by Beta UK and is fully equipped with a wide range of two and four-stroke,…

  • SEVEN questions raised about the Norton Motorcyles COLLAPSE.

    SEVEN questions raised about the Norton Motorcyles COLLAPSE.

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    Norton Motorcycles has gone into administration, as it is pursued by HMRC for £300,000 in unpaid taxes read about this HERE. Whilst the dust on this news settles, we’ve had a dig through our news archive to see what the company has been doing over the past few years – and doing this has raised…

  • THIS WEEK! Ducati is unveiling the Superleggera. Project 1708 (it’s codename) unveiling on Feb 6.

    THIS WEEK! Ducati is unveiling the Superleggera. Project 1708 (it’s codename) unveiling on Feb 6.

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    This (notification image at the bottom of this article) has just appeared from Ducati. It’s the official unveiling of the Ducati Panigale V4 Superleggera (codename Project 1708) – the 2016 MotoGP on the road. It’s going to make 234bhp and weigh 152kg dry. It has HUGE wings for real MotoGP downforce and looks like it’d…

  • Norton Motorcycles collapse. More information comes to light.

    Norton Motorcycles collapse. More information comes to light.

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    Following last week’s news that Norton Motorcycles has gone into administration, more information has come to light which indicates that the latest collapse of the iconic British brand was a long time coming.   -Metro Bank has confirmed it has spent months working with Norton to find a solution before bringing in the administrators as…

  • WORLD LAUNCH: Suzuki V-Strom 1050XT

    WORLD LAUNCH: Suzuki V-Strom 1050XT

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    WORDS: Mikko Nieminen – Motorcycle Sport and Leisure magazine / PHOTOGRAPHY: Suzuki We can all agree that Suzuki’s flagship adventure bike has been in need of a bit of an update for a while now. What’s unlikely to be agreed quite so universally is whether the new V-Strom 1050XT now has all the bells and…

  • Honda CLOSES two motorcycle factories in China due to CORONAVIRUS outbreak.

    Honda CLOSES two motorcycle factories in China due to CORONAVIRUS outbreak.

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    Following the coronavirus outbreak, Honda has announced that it will extend the closure of two of its Chinese factories in Tianjin and Taicang. Responding to requests from the Chinese authorities following the outbreak of the coronavirus, Honda has announced that it’s keeping two of its motorcycle factories shut until February 9th. The two Chinese factories…

  • MV Agusta’s President confirms “an adventure bike is coming”.

    MV Agusta’s President confirms “an adventure bike is coming”.

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    In an interview with Motociclismo.it, Timur Sardarov the President of MV Agusta has been speaking about the Italian factory’s plans for the future – and the big news is that there’s an adventure bike on the way. Speaking about the news the MV Agusta’s moving a part of its production to China, Sardarov confirmed that…

  • FIRST RIDE: KTM’s 390 Adventure – a 2020 motorcycle for the masses, no matter what you want to do.

    FIRST RIDE: KTM’s 390 Adventure – a 2020 motorcycle for the masses, no matter what you want to do.

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    We’ve got the first ride on the small Adventure. Insiders say the Austrians had been coaxing their friends in Pune, India to make a small-capacity ADV, something that tied in with all their Dakar wins, but partners at Bajaj weren’t sold on the idea. The one thing you cannot accuse Bajaj of is not having…


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