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Car leasing company starts short term motorbike leasing plan
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Yorkshire based national car leasing company expands into short term motorbike leasing. A national short term car leasing company based in West Yorkshire has launched what it claims is the UK’s only ‘truly short term’ motorcycle leasing service as it continues to expand its business model. Cars on Demand, headquartered in Wakefield, has teamed…
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KTM announces official range of PowerParts for awesome 690 singles
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The model year 2016 KTM 690 Duke and 690 Duke R are the most powerful and technically advanced single-cylinder machines available. Although they boast a long list of new features and refinements, KTM knows its riders still need to modify their bikes and so a diverse range of official PowerParts are available. Both new Duke models –…
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Yard Built Heads to Turkey for a Tracker Style XSR700 by Bunker Custom Motorcycles
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With spring well and truly underway Yamaha heads to Istanbul in Turkey to collaborate with a new member of the Yard Built family, Bunker Custom Motorcycles. Brothers, Can and Mert Uzer are not your typical custom bike builders. Can is a top level skateboarder with the Vans Turkey Skateboarding Team, while Mert recently gave…
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Zenith reached: once this happens it’s game over for the hipster bikers, surely?
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OK, maybe the custom-thing isn’t actually over as such – but we’re all a bit open-jawed having seen these pictures. This was a 1996 Honda XR650L that’s been given a, quote: “More rugged and ready-for-anything aesthetic”. Umm… OK. It looks quite ridiculous to us, but someone out there loves it enough to have it built…
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German press shows this: Mega six-cylinder naked with six exhausts and K1600 engine… yeah…
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OK, so this is a rumour – and from what we can gather from our German cousins on the excellent Motorrad magazine, there’s little to move this story on from that rather precarious position – but still, check this story out! What we have here is the illustration by Stefan Kraft that shows a massive…
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Akula BMW/TVS 300 concept IS going into production – as the Apache RTR300
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Our friends at the excellent Rushlane website in India have dug up a great bike of info on the Akula 310 concept – the fully-faired sportbike based around BMW’s G310R naked (pictured below). The Apache RTR300 gets the G310R’s 34bhp liquid-cooled single-cylinder motor and a 6-speed gearbox. The best news is that the…
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Japanese journo’s Honda CBR250RR finished form image appears – and it looks trick
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Top Japanese motorcycle magazine Young Machine has just released it’s latest edition’s cover – and pride of place on it is a fully-finished computer Mac-up of the upcoming CBR250RR Honda. The bike shares a lot of bodywork styling from the already-seen CBR125 – but in terms of colourscheme etc it’s a safe bet that this…
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Spy shots! Husky Vitpilen cafe racer snapped out in first tests on the road!
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Here are spy pictures of the Husqvarna Vitpilen cafe racer for the road as it’s put through its first set of road tests abroad. The bike is heavily drab with black bodywork and a temporary exhaust and silencer – the wheels are a far cry from the spoked versions (or the fatter-spoked mag arm wheels)…
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Meet the official HRC Grom monkey bike racer that you can now buy
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Honda’s official racing company, HRC, has developed and put on sale a raft of tricked-up parts for the firm’s mini-bike, the Grom. A Grom in HRC colours with a couple of performance parts bolted to it is old news, but the fact that HRC has put on sale the host of hot-ticket options shows…
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Rumour? BMW to launch muscle cruiser rival to the Ducati XDiavel?
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German magazine Motorrad believes that BMW is building an XDiavel crusher – a muscle cruiser pared back to basics to try and take on the likes of the popular Italian model. It’s just a rumour at the moment – and there’s no solid leads on much of this (other than the rumour itself) – and…
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