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Honda’s secret designs for the MORPHING tourer in 2017 – REVEALED
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Honda’s secret designs for the MORPHING tourer in 2017 – REVEALED. Honda’s next step in motorcycle evolution is going to be tourers and sport tourers that actually change the footrests, footboard AND seat construction underneath you as you ride. With the morphing seat patent it shows how both the rider and pillion seats change shape…
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Triumph recalling Street Twin and Bonneville T120 over fuel leak fire risk
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Triumph recalling Street Twin and Bonneville T120 over fuel leak fire risk. Triumph America and Triumph UK will be recalling the 2016 Street Twin and Bonneville T120 because if a fear that fuel might leak into the electrical system, creating a fire risk. Reports from the USA this morning say that the USA’s National Highway…
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BMW to make mini-GS in 2017, bike based on G310R’s motor – CONFIRMED by BMW Boss!
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BMW is going to launch a mini-GS adventure bike (like the big 1200cc Adventure, above) based on the smaller G310R’s motor and the bike is likely to appear in 2017. The news comes direct from BMW top brass and confirms that the smaller-bike modular concept will spawn other models from the original 34bhp single-cylinder…
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Glorious new images of the Husqvarna 2017 cafe racer emerge. VERY pretty stuff!
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It was on October 5 last year that we brought you the exclusive quote from one of two managing directors of Husqvarna, Reinhold Zens that: “I can tell you that they will come as 2017 models,” – he was talking about the Svartpilen and Vitpilen cafe racer and scrambler models – and so here we…
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Video: Riding the 3D printed motorcycle (The Gadget Show’s film)
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Here’s a decent bit of video from the latest edition of The Gadget Show, channel five’s nerdfest (which we never miss). This week, ageing Lex Luthor lookalike Jason Bradbury (who we also like) takes to the road in Italy on the Ego electric bike. It’s not much of a test of the bike to be…
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Honda’s thinking ‘haptic’ motorcycle danger feedback designs break cover
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Honda’s thinking ‘haptic’ motorcycle danger feedback designs break cover. Hot news from the USA where the guys at motorcycle.com have uncovered these patent drawings for a blind-spot monitoring system from Honda which will go on the company’s bikes. In a report by Dennis Chung, the patent drawings are clearly shown and will work as a…
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Video: KLR650 brrraaaapp-ing up a hill climb
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Here’s a cracking bit of film to get yer juices flowing. It’s from a french hill climb, there’s nothing like a crash or near miss in the footage, but it’s well worth a watch. In fact, if you ever want to know how manic a quick climb feels right from the start – then…
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Kawasaki Z900RS future model – image appears in Japan
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Hot on the heels of news that Kawasaki has filed a trademark for the name Z900RS, we’ve been sent this mock-up image of the bike from a top Japanese magazine. Autoby magazine in Japan features what it thinks the Z900RS will look like on the cover of its next issue. The bike is styled like…
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Kawasaki files trademark for all-new Z900RS retro-bruiser!
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Kawasaki has filed a trademark application for a new bike called the Z900RS and the rumour-mill has the name being used for a motorcycle that’s going to be pretty much a new version of the factory’s iconic 1970s bruiser, the Z1 (pictured below). The actual application for the trademark has little detail in it…
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Two more specials surface from Honda in Bangkok – check out the sweet 300TT cafe racer
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A couple more Bangkok Show specials have surfaced today with these two Hondas. MotoSaigon.vn was the first to peg up pictures of the gorgeous CB300TT special and the slightly-more ho-hum gold-coloured CB650 Scrambler-derived bike. Out of the two, we really like the CB300TT cafe racer special, but given how many of these Honda-show specials we’ve…
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