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Preview: British Superbikes round two – Oulton Park
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Preview: British Superbikes round two – Oulton Park. By Philip Wain The 2016 MCE British Superbike Championship heads to Oulton Park this weekend for round two and after an intriguing season opener at Silverstone three weeks ago, predicting an outcome is anyone’s guess. Shane ‘Shakey’ Byrne (pictured above) currently leads the standings after a…
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Meet the all-paper classic Honda Monkey Bike kit you can own for £20-ish!
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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! The UK price comes in at £21.56 and the kit is made by a company called Uplift…
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Zenith reached: once this happens it’s game over for the hipster bikers, surely?
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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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Video: Brilliant drifting on a 50cc bike with plastic-coated rear tyre and loonie on board
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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. We’ve got two videos for you here –…
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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!
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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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MotoGP: Suzuki’s new F1-style wings on the factory bikes and Aprilia gets Ducati-clone wings too!
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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: We like it. Not as aggressive as the Ducati wings and they look like being…
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Meet the official HRC Grom monkey bike racer that you can now buy
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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. A Grom in HRC colours with a couple of performance parts bolted to it is old news, but the fact that HRC has put on sale the host of hot-ticket options shows…
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See Guy Martin’s Wall of Death bike in the flesh at Stafford this weekend!
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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. The road racing, mountain biking, lorry mechanic blasted around the specially-built 37…
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Video: Chihuahua leads bike cop a merry chase across San Francisco’s Bay Bridge
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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. We’re unsure about giving the dog the name Ponch… we love the CHiPs TV show. It kind of…
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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?
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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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