Your Ride
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First ride: Suzuki V-Strom 250
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Just over a year ago there wasn’t really such a thing as a small adventure bike segment in any meaningful way. Then, at the international bike shows towards the end of 2016 bike manufacturers, one after another, pulled the covers of their new small-capacity adventurers, and all of a sudden a whole new breed…
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Video: Café Racer ride through the Dolomites with GoPro
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To launch its sixth generation camera, GoPro sent childhood mates and motorbike riders Joe and Stefan and a fully rebuilt 1979 Kawasaki KZ400 Café Racer out for their first test ride on the winding mountain roads of the Italian Dolomites. Ok, so let’s try to ignore their lack of protective gear – after all, things…
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Motorcycle Live announces Ace Builds custom showcase finalists
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The organisers of the UK’s biggest bike show, Motorcycle Live, have announced the finalists in its Ace Builds custom showcase competition. The four machines will go on display at Motorcycle Live at The NEC, Birmingham from 18-26 November, where show visitors will be able to vote for the ‘Ultimate Ace Build’. The initial entries to…
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Video: Triumph Street Triple Custom from Italy
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Custom house Italian Dream Motorcycle based in Reggio Emilia, Italy has unveiled its latest creation, a Triumph Street Triple special, dubbed the ‘Tripla 0.0 675cc’. Italian Dream Motorcycle’s latest creation is a unique Triumph Street Triple custom, that’s been built in conjunction with highly specialised racing parts manufacturers. The only standard part is its single-sided…
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Video: Honda’s X-ADV adventure/city scooter thing
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Here’s our Mikko’s video account of his first ride on the Honda X-Adv during the world launch in Sardinia. You can read his full review below and the film is above, just hit the play button to watch it. Honda took the adventure biking scene by the horns when it launched the reborn CRF1000L Africa…
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One-off ExoDyne electric motorcycle
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Full-time vet and part-time engineer, Alan Cross has created an otherworldly one-off skeletal electric motorcycle, called the ExoDyne. Throughout his career, Cross has spent his weekends and evenings creating all manner of gadgets, gizmos and vehicles, from electric trikes to steam punk floor lamps. His latest project, the ExoDyne, took 9 months of research, design,…
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Full A2 licence Triumph range now available in the UK!
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Triumph Motorcycles finally has its full range of A2 compliant motorcycles available for sale in the UK. Eligible models include the brand-new A2 Street Triple S and the 900cc Triumph Street range – which includes the new Street Scrambler, Street Cup, Street Twin and Bonneville T100. The A2 licence Street Triple S, which is powered…
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Video: 50th anniversary Moto Guzzi V7 custom cafe racer
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To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Moto Guzzi V7, Vanguard has teamed up with Gannet Design and Wrench Kings to create the Vanguard Moto Guzzi V7 Custom café racer. Ulfert Janssen from Gannet Design said: “In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Moto Guzzi V7 and new Vanguard jeans, we designed a one-off…
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Quick Spins – 1986 Suzuki RG500 Gamma
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MoreBikes Quick Spins are brought to you by Classic Motorcyce Mechanics Magazine – the BEST magazine for great bikes from the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Click on the link to get the CMM world on your screen. Yet again I had to admit my negative judgement wasn’t just premature, but inappropriate too. After assessing…
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Xabi Alonso swaps boots for bhp and picks up a BMW R 100 Café Racer
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Spanish football superstar Xabi Alonso has just bought a custom BMW R 100 from Madrid based Café Racer Dreams. Professional athletes often have clauses in their contracts that prohibit them from getting up to anything considered too risky – and one of those ‘risky’ activities is motorcycling. But with just a month to go until Alonso…
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