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Podcast 22: One Steph Beyond
Steph Jeavons is an amazing rider who has travelled the world on her Honda and is still going on crazy, massive mileage missives. MoreBikes caught up with her for a chat about all things global. https://soundcloud.com/morebikes/022-one-steph-beyond
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SCOOP Kawasaki 2016 colours and stuff (so far)
Kawasaki has just sent us these updates for the 2016 range so we thought we’d let you read what the factory itself is saying about the changes to the range. Mostly just colours at this stage, new models like the new ZX-10R and possibly the new junior supercharged bike, both of which we scooped a while back,…
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SCOOP Jurassic World Scrambler sells for £28,000
Last weekend, the global charity auction of an iconic Triumph Scrambler ridden by film star Chris Pratt in Jurassic World closed after ten days and 90 bids. The bespoke bike, which was featured racing alongside Raptors in this summer’s blockbuster is a one-off piece of movie history and raised $43,752 or£28,000 in aid of those battling…
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SCOOP Indian confirms flat-track plans for 2017
Well, we told you that this was going to happen and here’s the official word on Indian Motorcycles returning to the AMA flat-track series in 2017. Here’s is what Steve Menneto, Vice President of Polaris, the company that owns Indian, said: “I don’t have anything more to tell you at this stage, beyond the fact…
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VIDEO Perfect scale model H-D engine runs and revs loud
Ok, so we’re just like you – we love motorcycles and motorcycle-related stuff. And this video just sits so right with us today. It’s a scale model (that works) of a Harley-Davidson Panhead engine.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online.…
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VIDEO More Maddison KTM surfing action
We were the first to bring you the Robbie Maddison KTM surfing video but the story behind the shoot might surprise you. For the ‘Pipe Dreams’ video DC shoes and Aussie riding superstar Maddison spent two and half years taking the plan from page to reality.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading…
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SCOOP Mini Suzuki V-Strom (a 250) is on the way
More rumours from Japan about Suzuki’s 2016 line-up and this time they have the big blue company firing a 250 version of its V-Strom into the mix.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Basically, the bike is the current…
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Motorcycle Live 2015 tickets on sale today
Tickets for Motorcycle Live 2015 go on sale today. This year’s show gets underway on Saturday November 28 at The NEC, Birmingham and run for nine days until Sunday 6 December 6, with four halls jam-packed with features that will see modern motorcycling come to life. Top of every visitor’s list is new metal and…
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VIDEO Robbie Maddison’s big surf riding motocross thing!
Big jump legend Robbie Maddison has just released this new video, ‘Pipe Dream’ which is… well… him riding a motocross bike in huge Tahitian surf.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. There’s not much more to add to that…
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VIDEO SHOCK Canepa’s front brake grab and rival’s crash
This is the shocking moment that a WSB rider,Althea racer Niccolo Canepa, reaches across and jabs a rival’s front brake on, causing the other rider to crash at Mugello during a test in 2013. The footage comes from a locked-off trackside camera. Yeah, we’re meant to say alleged and all that sort of stuff, but…
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VIDEO Brookes wins BSB then bins it (this is the bin it bit)
Josh Brookes took Pole, the lap record and two wins at Thruxton over the weekend. All good stuff (and what is known in the racing world as the ‘Gentleman’s set’).Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. It was the…
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VIDEO Gas Gas employees hang KTM-shirted mannequin in protest
With the Spanish trails and enduro bike builder Gas Gas in liquidation, and the possibility that KTM may take them over, tensions are high at the moment. There has been some speculation about how the Gas Gas employees feel about an arch rival moving into their territory.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by…
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VIDEO: MotoGP 15 – Career Introduction feat. Valentino Rossi
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Max Biaggi gives away Aprilia secret plan for MotoGP and WSB
The mighty Max Biaggi, multiple World Champion in Grand Prix and World Superbike, has let slip that Aprilia IS returning to MotoGP – and that the Italian factory has a very clear plan for the return to top-flight racing. Biaggi also said that the firm’s WSB participation in the superbike championship was not anywhere near…
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Cool concept BMW ‘Lightburner’ sketch is reeeaal purty!
We like this. A lot. Oberdan Bezzi is a designer who’s worked for a lot of major places in motorcycling and he’s been doing some designs for ‘concept’ ideas. This one, the BMW S1000 Lightburner looks amazing to us. According to Bezzi’s blog, the bike is based around the S1000R but sits on a tiny…
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VIDEO: Dani Pedrosa screaming around on a supermoto
Check out this pretty excellent video of Dani Pedrosa ripping the wotsit out of a supermoto bike. The whole video is very ‘arty’ in places, but don’t let that put you off – it’s well worth a watch.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe,…
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SCOOP: New 400cc retro-style, fuel injected Scrambler for £4k-ish
Mash is bringing out this new, retro-style scrambler which will be on sale in September.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. The 400 Scrambler will be biek model number 12 in the Mash range and uses the four-year old…
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Gorgeous new paint on MV Agusta F4RR
Check out these new paintschemes on the MV Agusta F4RR – they’re gorgeous. There’s not much more to say other than these schemes are part of a limited range of the RR which are effectively WSB spec (almost) bikes with full-on factory Arrow pipes and the whole shebang.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by…
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SCOOP: Side on image of 2016 GSX-R1000R from Japanese journos
We’ve been sent this – OK, not that good quality, but it’s the inside pages of that Suzuki GSX-R1000R article by Young Machine in Japan.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Now, these are the Japanese journos and test…
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Erik Buell Racing ‘acquired’ by Indian company Hero for $2.8m
The ongoing saga of Erik Buell Racing continues with news that the Hero MotoCorp Ltd (HMCL) filing with the Bombay Stock Exchange that it has agreed a settlement with Erik Buell Racing which has the American segment of HMCL acquire a ‘project’ from EBR for a fee of $2.8 million. Buell had been working on…
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SCOOP: Indian to bring back the flat-tracker glory!
Indian is building a pure-bred, road legal flat-track style motorcycle that will race on the Mile and Half Mile tracks in America by late 2016 or early 2017. There are no official sources to quite this claim from at the moment, but according to a flat-track source, Polaris Industries – the company that owns the…
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Video: Watch What Happens When You Grind Away a Motorcycle’s Engine
Madrid ad agency espadaysantacruz put together a very slick film for 3M to show off 3M’s new class of Cubitron II abrasives. Setting up timelapse cameras, the team built a machine to grind away a motorcycle’s engine, one layer at a time. It’s essentially a real-world cutaway illustration, done millimeter by millimeter. Watch the whole thing below, and check out some of…
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VIDEO: BMW S1000RR big screen action from M:I film. Uber cool.
That there new Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation film that’s out now (or soon, depending on where you are) has some real nice BMW S1000RR action in it.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Here’s a rather jolly nice…
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SCOOP: Royal Enfield Himalayan pre-prod bikes spotted
Yep, we quite like this too. These are the Royal Enfield Himalayan pre-production bikes out testing. Expect the bike late this year, to be revealed at the EICMA show. They won’t be fast, or tech-laden but we think that this might just neatly slot into the custom-retro-adventure world very nicely indeed.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy…
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