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SCOOP: Suzuki patents for hydrogen-powered fuel cell super scoot revealed
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SCOOP: Suzuki patents for hydrogen-powered fuel cell super scoot revealed. Suzuki has now published patents that it has filed for its first road-legal hydrogen-powered fuel-cell super scooter. This is a significant move from the Japanese factory which has been working on the technology for a few years now and has already shown its…
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Yamaha patents stop/start technology
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Yamaha patents stop/start technology. Yamaha has filed a patent for an auto-stop scooter. The design is not model specific but a patent at this stage usually means that the technology will be included on a current model for the following year’s run – so expect this to be included in some 2017 model. Yamaha is…
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VIDEO: Icon 1000’s Major Tom GSX-R special
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Check out this beautiful bit of film – it makes no sense and looks more like an arthouse movie than bike promo but boy do we like this sort of thing – and we reckon you will too. It’s a promo film for the Suzuki GSX-R special called Major Tom that’s been built by the…
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VIDEO: Kawasaki H2 caning it around the Nurburgring
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VIDEO: Kawasaki H2 caning it around the Nurburgring. Check out this pretty cool video of a Kawasaki H2 being put around the Nurburgring. It’s not a new video, it was made last October, but on a grizzly and grimy morning like we’ve got in the UK it’s a cracking bit of big bike fun to…
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Japanese journos print Kawasaki Ninja R2 image – claim it’s going to be a 600
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Japanese journos print Kawasaki Ninja R2 image – claim it’s going to be a 600. We’ve been telling you about the second generation of supercharged Kawasakis for over a year now, the plans for more supercharging units have been patented and shown on MoreBikes for the past ten months or so. Just past midnight…
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SCOOP: Honda boss talks about possible 250X Crossrunner for 2017
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SCOOP: Honda boss talks about possible 250X Crossrunner for 2017 . There’s loads of rumours circulating in Indonesia and Japanese markets this morning about a Honda 250x Adventure/road bike that’s likely to appear for 2017. The hubbub (good word!) has happened after comments made by one of two marketing directors of Astra Honda Motor…
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Honda CBR500R and CB500F world launch review
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Honda CBR500R and CB500F world launch review Tested by: Mikko Nieminen Engine: 471cc liquid-cooled, parallel twin Power: 47bhp at 8500rpm Torque: 43Nm at 7000rpm Price: CBR500R £5,599 / CB500F £5,099 The A2 licence category is a veritable minefield for bike manufacturers in many ways. Any machine that wants to succeed here must be easy for…
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Husqvarna Vitpilen and Svartpilen rumoured to be manufactured in India
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Indian bike journos are speculating that KTM-owned Husqvarna Motorcycles might start to manufacture bikes in India. Bajaj Auto, which has a large stake in KTM, is anticipated to start manufacturing Husqvarna models at their manufacturing plant in Chakan, India. Apparently the Husqvarna models destined to be manufactured are the Vitpilen and the Svartpilen, which were…
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2017 Yamaha R15 facelift mac-up appears in the emerging markets
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2017 Yamaha R15 facelift mac-up appears in the emerging markets. Indonesian website Peysblog has fired up this computer image of what it think the facelifted Yamaha R15 is going to look like. This image certainly tallies with the blurry snapshot of a Yamaha being ridden at the firm’s Indonesian plant that we brought you a…
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Malaysian govt is closing down the capital once a week so that young riders can road race legally!
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Malaysian govt is closing down the capital once a week so that young riders can road race legally! The Malaysian government has said that it is going to hold legal street races to counter the growing number of illegal motorbike races that have recently sprung up. Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor made…
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