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Preview: World Superbikes round five – Imola
Preview: World Superbikes round five – Imola. Everything happening during the Motul Italian Round, on the track and at the circuit this weekend. It’s a guide. Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Beginning on Thursday (tomorrow) with a pre-event…
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Preview: British Superbikes round two – Oulton Park
Preview: British Superbikes round two – Oulton Park. By Philip Wain Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. The 2016 MCE British Superbike Championship heads to Oulton Park this weekend for round two and after an intriguing season opener…
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Meet the all-paper classic Honda Monkey Bike kit you can own for £20-ish!
If you’ve ever fancied an iconic Honda Monkey Bike then you can buy one for a little over £20 straight from Japan – yep, it’s paper and you have to make the model yourself, but it looks great! Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to…
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Indian riders get huge sunscreens put up at junctions to save them from the baking sun
How about this for a feelgood biking story then? Officials in Nagpur, India noticed that motorcycle riders were getting too hot when waiting at junctions for a gap in the traffic during the nearly 40 degree heat in the midday sun (wow).Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper.…
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KTM announces official range of PowerParts for awesome 690 singles
The model year 2016 KTM 690 Duke and 690 Duke R are the most powerful and technically advanced single-cylinder machines available. Although they boast a long list of new features and refinements, KTM knows its riders still need to modify their bikes and so a diverse range of official PowerParts are available. Both new Duke models –…
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Yard Built Heads to Turkey for a Tracker Style XSR700 by Bunker Custom Motorcycles
Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. With spring well and truly underway Yamaha heads to Istanbul in Turkey to collaborate with a new member of the Yard Built family, Bunker Custom Motorcycles. Brothers, Can and Mert Uzer are…
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Zenith reached: once this happens it’s game over for the hipster bikers, surely?
OK, maybe the custom-thing isn’t actually over as such – but we’re all a bit open-jawed having seen these pictures. This was a 1996 Honda XR650L that’s been given a, quote: “More rugged and ready-for-anything aesthetic”. Umm… OK. It looks quite ridiculous to us, but someone out there loves it enough to have it built…
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Sheene’s Daytona lid sells for £15,625 at auction – Guy Martin’s Blade goes for £14,720
Barry Sheene’s helmet – the smashed up one he fell in whilst testing at Daytona in 1975 – sold for £15,625 at the Bonhams auction at the weekend. Bearing Sheene’s iconic black and gold paintjob and featuring the the famous Donald Duck emblem the helmet was one used by Sheene across the 1974 and 1975…
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Podcast: Exclusive interview with Mason Law
In association with Kawasaki. Mason Law is the hottest, newest property in the British Supersport Championship for 2016. We caught up with the Gearlink Kawasaki star to go through everything in his racing head at the start of the season. Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click…
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Video: Brilliant drifting on a 50cc bike with plastic-coated rear tyre and loonie on board
Check this amazing video out of a genuinely-lovable biking nutter and his mates having a laugh with a 50cc bike and plastic-covered rear tyre. There’s not that much more that we can say about this other than it’s REALLY made us laugh today and it’s just joyous.Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by…
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German press shows this: Mega six-cylinder naked with six exhausts and K1600 engine… yeah…
OK, so this is a rumour – and from what we can gather from our German cousins on the excellent Motorrad magazine, there’s little to move this story on from that rather precarious position – but still, check this story out! What we have here is the illustration by Stefan Kraft that shows a massive…
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Stafford auction: World Record smashed for rusty Brough Superior! £331,900 for this!
Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click here to subscribe, or Read FREE Online. Bonhams Stafford Sale set a new world record price for a Brough Superior and for any British motorcycle sold at auction, as the gavel fell at an astounding £331,900 for the 1938 Brough…
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Spied: Rossi’s next phase of MotoGP bike development spotted in Jerez. And Lorenzo hasn’t got this on his bike!
A keen-eyed snapper for website GPOne.com caught this new bit of kit on Valentino Rossi’s factory Yamaha at Jerez. It’s a sensor that’s been fitted to the clutch on the nine-times world champion’s bike. The arm, and data-logging equipment that goes with it, was only fitted to Rossi’s bike and wasn’t seen on Lorenzo’s machine. Given…
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Akula BMW/TVS 300 concept IS going into production – as the Apache RTR300
Our friends at the excellent Rushlane website in India have dug up a great bike of info on the Akula 310 concept – the fully-faired sportbike based around BMW’s G310R naked (pictured below). 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: Bloke falls asleep whilst riding a scooter… and drops it (naturally)
We were sceptical about this the first time we watched this video of a guy in Thailand apparently falling asleep on a scooter – but having watched it a few times it’s starting to look pretty real to us. Have a watch yourself and see what you think. He’s weaving all over the place and…
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Japanese journo’s Honda CBR250RR finished form image appears – and it looks trick
Top Japanese motorcycle magazine Young Machine has just released it’s latest edition’s cover – and pride of place on it is a fully-finished computer Mac-up of the upcoming CBR250RR Honda. The bike shares a lot of bodywork styling from the already-seen CBR125 – but in terms of colourscheme etc it’s a safe bet that this…
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Lorenzo: “We could have won the race! Michelin has to find out what is going on.”
Jorge Lorenzo suffered a rear tyre spinning badly enough to rob him of a win at Jerez and has now said that Michelin needs to find out what the issue with the rubber was. As the MotoGP World Championship lined up for the start of the Gran Premio Red Bull de España, eyes were on…
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MotoGP Jerez: Rossi wins in style “I think that this was the perfect weekend!”
Valentino Rossi took a sensational first win of 2016 with a flawless performance at the Gran Premio Red Bull de España in Jerez. With the three biggest names in the MotoGP World Championship all starting on the front row of the grid, the Spanish GP was set to be a very special race. For Valentino…
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Moto2 Jerez: Sam Lowes takes first win of 2016 with perfect Spanish GP
He may have had to fight in the opening laps, but once Lowes was ahead he was untouchable. Folger and Rins joining him on the podium. The sun blazed down on the thousands of fans gathered at the Circuito de Jerez to witness the Moto2 World Championship race at the Gran Premio Red Bull de…
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Moto3 Jerez: Binder destroys field and takes career first win from last
An impossible charge through the field saw Binder take his first World Championship victory from Bulega and Bagnaia having started last. Drama began even before the Moto3 World Championship lined up on the grid as Brad Binder (Red Bull KTM Ajo) was sent to the back of the grid, moving every rider up a position…
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Spy shots! Husky Vitpilen cafe racer snapped out in first tests on the road!
Here are spy pictures of the Husqvarna Vitpilen cafe racer for the road as it’s put through its first set of road tests abroad. The bike is heavily drab with black bodywork and a temporary exhaust and silencer – the wheels are a far cry from the spoked versions (or the fatter-spoked mag arm wheels)…
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MotoGP: Suzuki’s new F1-style wings on the factory bikes and Aprilia gets Ducati-clone wings too!
Two more teams have debuted racebikes in MotoGP with wings. The Spanish MotoGP round at Jerez happens this weekend and the Suzuki’s of Maverick Vinales and Aleix Espargaro have turned up with this (very F1 front wing stylee) winged fairing: Article continues below… Advert Enjoy everything More Bikes by reading the MoreBikes monthly newspaper. Click…
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Around the World on ‘connected’ Yamaha Super Ténéré
Here’s something a bit different: Hugo Scagnetti, supported by Telefónica and Yamaha, will ride 23,000 miles around the world in 80 days. That in itself isn’t the news though. The twist in the story is that he will be travelling on a special Yamaha Super Ténéré XT1200Z, dubbed Globalrider, equipped with the latest technologies Telefónica…
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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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