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Michelin boss: MotoGP tyre tore itself apart because of A: the track, B: the temperature and C: Scott Redding’s weight
Michelin Technical Director Nicolas Goubert has talked about the recent tyre issues in MotoGP. And he says that – in part – Scott Redding’s weight was something to do with the tyre tearing itself apart in Argentina.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe,…
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Imatra road race is back after 30 years
Here’s one for your calendar this summer: The iconic Imatra road race is set to return after 30 years when the Finnish IRRC race is held on August 19-21, 2016. Between 1962 and 1986 the streets of Imatra city turned into a racetrack a total of 25 times and Imatra even held World Championship races.…
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Meet the official HRC Grom monkey bike racer that you can now buy
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. Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. A Grom in HRC colours with a couple of performance…
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Spada and Ron Haslam join forces
Spada clothing has become the technical clothing partner to the UK’s premier motorcycle racing school, the Ron Haslam Race School, based at Donington Park circuit. The award winning Spada range is exclusively distributed by Feridax. Spada will be supplying exclusively made suits for the school based on their popular Curve Evo style race suit. The…
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VIDEO: Givi WP400 soft bag review
The Givi WP400 is a soft bag that you can sling on a back of pretty much any bike. The bag is 100% waterproof, with a roll-up top to keep the contents dry even in poor weather (I still put all my stuff in carrier bags inside the Givi bag just in case – it’s…
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See Guy Martin’s Wall of Death bike in the flesh at Stafford this weekend!
The Rob North framed 750cc BSA Triple machine on which Guy Martin set a new world speed record on a Wall of Death, live on Channel 4 over the Easter break, will be at the 36th Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show this weekend. Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes…
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Video: Chihuahua leads bike cop a merry chase across San Francisco’s Bay Bridge
Here’s a video report of a chihuahua leading the San Francisco police on a chase across a major bridge. This is filmed from a police car involved in the not exactly speedy run out in San Francisco.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or…
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Rumour? BMW to launch muscle cruiser rival to the Ducati XDiavel?
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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MotoGP: Rossi talks about Lorenzo – ‘I think that he will be competitive on the Ducati’
Rossi’s pre-race press debrief at Jerez, Spain ahead of this weekend’s race was (as you might imagine) filled with questions about Jorge Lorenzo’s move to Ducati which was announced earlier this week. Rossi was asked about what the move would be like for Lorenzo, going from Yamaha to Ducati, given that it’s a move that…
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Want to DJ at the 2016 Isle of Man TT races? Alongside Carl Cox? Yeah? Read this then…
Aspiring DJs will once again have the opportunity to open for legendary DJ Carl Cox, one of the world’s most successful DJs, as the Honda TT Revolution returns to the Isle of Man for an unforgettable week of motorcycle racing and music.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly…
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Ducati MotoGP Team Manager: Yamaha didn’t make Lorenzo ‘feel good’, Rossi is wrong about Ducati and crunch time for Dovi and Iannone will happen at Barcelona GP
Yamaha did not make Jorge Lorenzo “feel good”, reckons Ducati MotoGP team manager Gigi Dall’Igna. In a report published by the excellent Autosport – translated from an original article in Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, Dall’Igna is pretty scathing about Yamaha and how it treated the Majorcan. Suggested to Dall’Igna by Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello…
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HJC teams up with Marvel for official Iron Man, Punisher and Captain America helmets
It had to happen at some point and here it is, HJC has teamed up with Marvel Comics to produce the first three officially licensed graphic helmets which will be available next month. We don’t know much about these lids in term of spec – and what we’ve seen so far is only USA-oriented –…
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Maverick Viñales: I want to be MotoGP champion in two or three years!
With the interest ramping up ahead of this weekend’s Spanish GP round, the subject of much speculation about the future – Maverick Viñales – is upping his ante. With the Spaniard currently being courted by Yamaha to line up alongside Valentino Rossi for the next couple of years as a natural replacement for the now Ducati-bound…
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Video: MASSIVE high side and faceplant in USA race beats up Josh Day good and proper
Want to know just how good modern motorcycle riding kit is? Then check this video out. This is Josh Day taking a huge faceplant at the end of a monster highside last weekend in Practice session three for the MotoAmerica Superstock 1000 race at Road Atlanta.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading…
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Casting call for motorcyclists from the BBC!
October Films, a television production company based in Camden, is currently making a brand new television series for the BBC called ‘Motorheads’ and you could be a part of it.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. The series features the…
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Fancy being a Ducati ‘torch bearer’ one of seven people riding a relay around the world for the Italian bike maker?
Ducati has sent us this information about a global relay-ride that the firm is holding which will see a Multistrada 1200 Enduro ridden around the world – cool enough – but what they are looking for are SEVEN riders from the general public who will make up the riding team. And you could be one…
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Video: WOW! Super scary nearest miss EVER (possibly) as falling biker misses being crushed by inches!
Holy moly! This is one of the most amazingly-lucky near misses we’ve ever seen, the footage is almost unbelievable. Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. The footage was caught by resident Peter Van Der Schuit on his home security…
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Indian journos make this mini-GS310 Adventure image from our exclusive story – we love it!
Indian journos make this mini-GS310 Adventure image from our exclusive story – we love it! Our friends at top Indian site Rushlane have sent us this computer image of a mini-GS300 type BMW Adventure bike which they came up with from our scoop story on April 6.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by…
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Video: Yamaha Tracer 700 in action
Yamaha has just released this promotional video of it’s new Tracer 700 in action. The bike has been revealed to everyone today by the factory, it’s a MT-07 upright bike that makes 75bhp, will be in dealers in July and costs £6,299.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper.…
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Yamaha’s new Tracer 700 – in dealers in July and costs £6,299
Here is the new bike from Yamaha for 2016 – as expected it’s the Tracer 700. The MT-07 upright bike has been spied in testing trim for a couple of months and here it is in finished version. It’ll cost £6,299. Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper.…
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Video: The 9 sportbike riders you will meet
OK, we didn’t make this but it made us laugh. There’s language in it so it’s not safe for work but it’s pretty much on the nose and done by someone called Yammie Noob who seems to have a delightfully acidic way to sum up sportbike riders.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by…
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Racer dies after incident at Oliver’s Mount
It’s been announced on manxradio.com today that Manx rider Billy Redmayne has died. The 25 year old Laxey racer was injured in an incident at Oliver’s Mount on Sunday.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. He had been taken to…
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Here’s Harley-Davidson’s new Roadster for 2016
Here’s Harley-Davidson’s new Roadster for 2016. Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. This is the new Harley-Davidson Roadster – the latest addition to the firm’s Sportster range. It comes in four colours; vivid black with a charcoal denim pinstripe,…
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Lorenzo confirmed to Ducati MotoGP in two year deal
We brought you the news a fortnight ago that Valentino Rossi has confirmed to the world that the deal was done and now Jorge Lorenzo has confirmed publicly his switch to Ducati. The Majorcan will ride for the squad in 2017 and 2018. Lorenzo, born in Palma de Mallorca on 4 May 1987, has won five world…
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