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  • Launch ride: 2017 Yamaha MT-10 SP & Tourer Edition

    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…

  • Meet the Ducati Panigale R Cafe Racer – ‘The Blue Shark’

    Meet the Ducati Panigale R Cafe Racer – ‘The Blue Shark’

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    You all know the 2016 Ducati Panigale R pretty well. Out last year, and costing just shy of £30,000 – the Panigale R is pretty much state of the art as far as buyable Ducatis go… Now, imagine cutting one up and making this…’The Blue Shark’. In 2016, this bike rolled straight off the Ducati…

  • Video: Triumph Street Cup

    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…

  • Meet the BMW K75 Alpha. The world’s best unofficial BMW custom bike (we reckon).

    Meet the BMW K75 Alpha. The world’s best unofficial BMW custom bike (we reckon).

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    https://youtu.be/obK7azLtcMI It’s not often an unofficial concept bike makes it to the heady world of ‘reality’ – but this one has. And there’s something about the BMW Alpha K75 concept machine that we really like. The drawings (below) appeared some time ago courtesy of designer Mehmut Doruk Erdem and are based on an old Salt…

  • Video: Great documentary on ‘fastest Indian’ hero Burt Munro. Watch this, you’ll love it.

    Video: Great documentary on ‘fastest Indian’ hero Burt Munro. Watch this, you’ll love it.

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    Ages ago we showed you this great, three part video documentary of Burt Munro, the real-life hero upon which the Anthony Hopkins movie The World’s Fastest Indian is based. And we figured we’d show you them again. Everything we loved about Burt’s story is shown in these films. Including the ‘Dirty old men need love…

  • Review: Bull-It SR6 Carbon jeans

    Review: Bull-It SR6 Carbon jeans

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    Tested by: Mikko Nieminen // RRP: £129.99 (without knee and hip protectors) // Sizes: waist 28–40in, leg 32–34in // Colour: Black // Info: www.bull-it.com Striking a balance between style and safety is a tricky business when it comes to biking gear. The Bull-It SR6 Carbon jeans have the looks of traditional black jeans but they…

  • Review: Arai RX-7V helmet

    Review: Arai RX-7V helmet

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    If you’ve got a top-of-the-range head… Tested by: Mikko Nieminen // RRP: £499.99 // Sizes: XS-XL // Colours: Matt black, gloss black, white and various graphics // Info: www.whyarai.co.uk The RX-7V is the top of the range helmet from Arai. It looks great, fits perfectly, and comes from a long line of quality helmets. It’s…

  • Video: Lego and BMW’s team-up for the flying Hover Bike concept in film

    Video: Lego and BMW’s team-up for the flying Hover Bike concept in film

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    https://www.facebook.com/LEGO/videos/10154444348708403/ Last week we first brought you news about the tie-up between Lego and BMW which resulted in a bolt-on Lego kit for the firm’s R1200GS Adventure model AND a life-sized model of the Hover Bike concept – a kind of flying bike thing that looks a bit like those futuristic motorcycles from the sci-fi…

  • Video: When you’re over-hyped for the start of the race…

    Video: When you’re over-hyped for the start of the race…

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    You’ve got to admire this kid’s energy! https://www.facebook.com/SupercrossMotocross2014/videos/1760850227465300/ Sometimes you’re just that little bit over-hyped before the start of a local moto… we hugely admire this lad’s energy.

  • Video: FIRST ride of the Triumph Street Triple 765 – world launch report

    Video: FIRST ride of the Triumph Street Triple 765 – world launch report

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      Here’s our in-helmet video review of the 2017 Triumph Street Triple 765. We’ve made it in one-hit, no editing, so that you can see what we really think of this bike during the first chunk of miles on the new Hinckley metal.   Prices Street Triple S – £8000 – available April Street Triple…


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