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MotoGP bosses appoint bodyguards to Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez for this weekend’s Mugello round
MotoGP bosses appoint bodyguards to Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez for this weekend’s Mugello round. MotoGP bosses at Dorna have laid on bodyguards to look after Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez at this weekend’s race event at Mugello, Italy.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to…
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Google patents ‘sticky bonnet’ solution for driverless cars hitting pedestrians (and bikers, we assume)
Check out this new patent from Google (and no, we’re not making this up) for a semi-collapsing front end of a car that’s covered in super sticky glue.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. The idea is that when…
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Guy Martin’s new SPEED challenge – human-powered blimp across the channel…
If you’re missing your Guy Martin fix then here’s a behind-the-scenes picture that should have you smiling. This shot was snapped during filming for the upcoming third series of SPEED with the Lincolnshire man. That’s Guy with his back to the camera in the standard bobble hat. The series will be shown later in the…
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MotoGP Preview: Why Mugello could end up being the Race of the Year (and then some)
MotoGP Preview: Why Mugello could end up being the Race of the Year (and then some). If the events of the past week have shown us anything it’s that this weekend’s round of the MotoGP championship could be the best ever – and possibly the first premier class race in the championship where we end…
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Video: Rossi meets the Yamaha Motobot!
It’s the first time that the nine-times world champion has met his electronic counterpart – and it’s all a bit weird. This video has been released by Yamaha and shows the man who’s staying with Yamaha in MotoGP for the 2017 and 2018 seasons having a bit of a poke and prod around the robot…
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Video: biker misses truck by inches – but bike gets mashed in head-on crash!
Check out this amazing bit of video that’s appeared on the LIVE leak feed – it’s a biker who’s got to rate as one of the luckiest on the planet. Although the original footage appears to be from last December (you can see the origin’s date in the top right corner of the screen), this…
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Honda’s patent for air-conditioning on-bike system (yep)…
OK, here’s a story from the ‘are you frickin’ serious?’ file – and we’re not saying that this is going to happen, but it might. But it probably won’t. Maybe. Anyway, this is it. It’s been reported in the southern hemipshere that Honda has filed patents for a new on-bike air conditioning system. Yep. Article…
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And here it is! Vinales CONFIRMED as Yamaha rider for 2017/18 alongside Rossi – Iannone switches to Suzuki
Lovely stuff. As we outlined and dated a week ago. Here’s the announcement:Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd announce the signing of Maverick Viñales to ride for the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team for 2017…
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BSB Preview: Round three Brands Hatch
By Philip Wain Christian Iddon leads the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship into the third round of the season at Brands Hatch this weekend and the Tyco BMW rider knows he will have a fight on his hands in his quest to celebrate a debut race win in Kent. Iddon is the only rider to…
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Victory to race at this year’s TT! All-new bike AND William Dunlop riding it in the Zero TT race
Victory Motorcycles is returning with the Victory Racing team to compete in the Isle of Man TT Zero race with an all-new electric race bike called the Victory RR.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. The Victory RR electric…
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Suzuki announces MotoGP split from Maverick Vinales (like we said would happen today)
Suzuki announces MotoGP split from Maverick Vinales (like we said would happen today). As we told you last week, and then again at the start of this week, Maverick Vinales has already signed the contract for him to switch from Suzuki to Yamaha in MotoGP across the 2017/18 seasons.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More…
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Cool vintage bike model kits go on sale in Japan (GPZ900R… oh yes…)
We’ve been sent notification from Japan that these kits of classic modern retro Japanese superbikes are on sale. Yep, we want them as much as you do… these things look pretty good to us.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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Super hero motorcycle leathers go on sale in the States… no, we’re not making this up
Ok… so there’s fanboy suits and then there’s fanboy suits that are supposedly a set of leathers that you can ride a motorcycle in. Here’s three of the latter. The two Batman suits and one Superman suit have been made by American firm UD Replicas. Chunky Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent wannabes who want to…
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Video: Fancy a bike in the mush?
Here’s a video to underline just how quickly things can go wrong on track – end of a track session, one rider coasting around – another clips him – and the following rider gets a face full of superbike pretty quickly. Ouch. Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9j9EmfZjCQArticle continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the…
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Video: A few Spanish corners on the Yamaha MT-10
Here’s a nice little video of a few corners with Yamaha’s new MT-10, the R1-powered big naked 2016 model. Not much more to say about this other than it’s the sort of video that has no yabbering on but in a few corners tells you a bit about how the bike goes about its business…
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MotoGP: Ducati confirms Dovi for 2017/18 ride. Iannone is out (as we told you first)
So, remember when we told you earlier on that Ducati had decided on Andrea Dovizioso as it’s rider alongside Jorge Lorenzo for 2017 and 2018? And that means that Andrea Iannone is out of a Ducati ride and now is gunning to take over the Suzuki berth vacated by Maverick Vinales with the contract signed…
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KTM launches next generation of Enduro machines
KTM launches next generation of Enduro machines. KTM has announced a new generation of Enduro machines for model year 2017 that have been re-designed from the ground-up. With an entirely new chassis, all-new engines and some model changes within the Enduro line-up, the new KTM Enduro range is lighter, stronger and faster.Article continues below… Advert…
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French mini-Tenere illustration and article reveals crucial numbers for 2017’s bike
French mini-Tenere illustration and article reveals crucial numbers for 2017’s bike. French motorcycle publication Moto Revue has printed this computer-made image of the MT-07 Tenere, a bike which it says now won’t be with us until later next year.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to…
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Polaris joining MV Agusta? Italian financial minds say the deal is on and could save MV
Polaris joining MV Agusta? Italian financial minds say the deal is on and could save MV. Much talk going on at the moment about the future of MV Agusta with sectors of the Italian financial quarter saying that a possible link-up with Polaris is on the cards.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by…
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MotoGP morning gossip: Vinales signed the Yamaha contract last Friday, Ducati decides on Dovi, Iannone and Rins scrapping it out for Suzuki seat
More information has come through this morning about the merry-go-round in MotoGP and it makes for interesting reading. As Morebikes told you yesterday, the deal for Maverick Vinales (above) to become Valentino Rossi’s Yamaha team-mate for 2017 and 2018 has been done. It’s signed away and will be announced officially on Thursday this week ahead…
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Pedrosa at Honda until end of 2018 – official announcement
Well, we told you earlier today that the Maverick Vinales deal was done, and that an official statement is going to be made on Thursday – now here’s the first official part of the bigger-picture that the Vinales decision has influenced. Dani Pedrosa is now confirmed to be staying at Honda until the end of…
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Vinales signs for Yamaha. Official announcement to be made on Thursday (Spanish rumour)
Vinales signs for Yamaha. Official announcement to be made on Thursday (Spanish rumour). Maverick Vinales will race for Yamaha in 2017 and on Thursday the official announcement that the youth is the new team-mate to nine-times world champion Valentino Rossi will be made.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly…
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Coventry MotoFest 2016: Schwantz’s GP500, Sheene’s iconic RG500 and much more on tap for us bike fans
If you’re looking for a cracking event to get to soon, head to the Coventry MotoFest 2016. It’s a brilliant event with race bikes and cars taking to the Coventry ring road to perform. There’s a trio of awesome racebikes confirmed including Kevin Schwantz’s 1994 Suzuki RGV500 (pictured below), Michael Dunlop’s Team Classic Suzuki Xr69 and…
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WSB Sepang: Hayden’s maiden win
WSB Sepang: Hayden’s maiden win. Honda World Superbike Team rider Nicky Hayden crossed the line in Sepang on Sunday to take his first ever win in World Superbike. The American, a rookie in the class, took off from the pack in a supreme display of speed and control in difficult conditions. Ducati’s Davide Giugliano came…
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