Ok, so we first showed you these snaps a couple of weeks ago – but in case you missed them, here’s a look at Triumph’s
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FIRST PHOTOS: Harley-Davidson’s 2020 Streetfighter and Pan America Adventure bike snapped in FINISHED form!
The newshounds at top Dutch site Nieuwsmotor have bagged this brace of photos from a H-D dealer conference showing the American brand’s two big hitters
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Honda files patents for the CB125X and CB125M funky future roadsters that we first saw in Milan!
Last winter a lot of the world’s biking press (us included) opined that Honda’s small-capacity prototypes shown at Milan should make it to the road.
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Here’s the OFFICIAL designs for Suzuki’s Supermono single-cylinder!
Could the Japanese factory really be looking to push out a single-cylinder motorcycle that is similar in idea to the classic Ducati from 20 years
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SECRET PLANS: Kawasaki’s BATTERY-powered Ninja 400.
What do you think to this Kawasaki BATTERY-POWERED Ninja 400 that hinges the ‘engine’ unit out of the left side of the machine in one
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Ooooh! New patents squeak out for the Honda six-cylinder retro cafe racer. Yeah, six-cylinder.
We’ve told you before that this bike was coming and to be fair, we could waffle on about what we’ve found with these latest patents
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Honda’s future Gold Wing is getting stereoscopic cameras for your safety. Ain’t that nice?
Fresh patents from Honda show the touring behemoth equipped with a pair of cameras in the front fairing that will enable the bike’s safety automation
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Suzuki’s future single cylinder roadster revealed
Two design patents have appeared showing a compact bike is on the way. Fresh from Asia comes news of a new, small capacity motorcycle from
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There’s a KTM 500 on the way. And it’s been confirmed by the big boss of the Austrian firm!
Following on from the frank interview with Speedweek.com that we brought you recently READ THAT ARTICLE BY CLICKING HERE which blew the doors wide open
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Ford invents cars that look for filtering motorcyclists and then stay out of their way automatically!
Ford has invented a system that constantly looks for motorcycles filtering between lanes, works out how quickly they are approaching and automatically STOPS a car
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Honda’s hydrogen motorcycle: More patents appear – this time pointing towards production
Here’s the latest patent drawings from Honda’s R&D office giving us more detail about the company’s upcoming hydrogen motorcycle. In the designs the bike’s rear
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GORGEOUS! Now you can MAKE your own mini-BMW 310SS Superbike from bolt-on kit parts!
Fancy building your own mini-BMW superbike? You can, thanks to an Indian firm making the TVS Apache and a Japanese firm dealing with the bolt-on
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MOTOGP: Argentina gets extension until 2021
Dorna has confirmed a contract extension for the Argentian MotoGP round that means that the round will feature on the series’ calendar until 2021. The
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REVEALED: Honda’s plans for a live heads up display beamed to the screen of your bike as your ride
Honda has filed new designs for a first heads-up-display that will beam a motorcycle’s essential information onto the inside of the bike’s windscreen. The information
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MV Agusta looks to the future. Receives 50 MILLION EURO cash injection. Confirms Timur Sardarov as NEW CEO.
MV Agusta has just recieved a capital injection of around 40 million Euros and announced the appointment of new CEO Timur Sardarov – as it
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Honda BOSS confirms three-wheeler IS coming. Kind of.
We’ve been speculating about the arrival of Honda’s three-wheeler ever since its funky NeoWing concept was unveiled to the world back in 2015. And it
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CONFIRMED: There’s FOUR new Kawasakis coming for EICMA. And here’s what the Japanese experts reckon is on the way.
So we know that there are FOUR new bikes coming from Kawasaki and that these 2019 models will be unveiled at the upcoming EICMA motorcycle
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Yamaha’s plan for airbags on scooters revealed
We all know that you can’t fit airbags to sportbikes, largely because of the almost-prone riding position that the sporty motorcycles sit the rider in
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Honda boss goes public on Hornet rumours: ‘We’ve got TWO new 650s coming! One will be funky, one will be mainstream.’
How about this for all you Hornet fans out there? Great news coming to us in the shape of a top interview with Fabrice Recoque,
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VW boss: “Either Ducati grows or we find new owners for it”
It’s an on-off story that’s been bubbling away under Ducati’s surface for at least a couple of years now, but it looks like significant changes
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VIDEO: Two new bikes, the Adventure Pan American, the Streetfighter and more teased in official film from Harley-Davidson
Here’s the official film from H-D showing off the ‘More Road to Harley-Davidson’ initiative which is bringing us a load of new models from
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What the hell is THIS (from Kawasaki’s special futures/ sci fi department)?
Ok, hands up people – we’ve got no idea what this patent design filed by the Japanese company is for – but it’s weird and
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REVEALED: Here’s the patents for Yamaha’s NEXT Niken – and it’s an MT-03-powered leaning three-wheeler!
Here’s what we’ve been sent on the next Niken from the Japanese motorcycle manufacturer. It’s a series of official designs from the factory that
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KTM’s 390 Adventure for 2019 CONFIRMED by Indian partner! Whoops…
It’s been a while coming, and we’ve seen plenty of pre-production ideas and versions of the lightweight KTM Adventure bike appearing from time to time
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MotoGP: Dani Pedrosa hits Barcelona saying: “I can’t say anything yet” about his future. Rumours of retirement still bubbling along with WSB and other things
So here we are them it’s Friday, the bottom of the ninth and all the bases are loaded. We’re very sure that phrase makes
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MotoGP: Aleix Espargaro continues with Aprilia for 2019 and 2020
Ahead of the HJC Helmets Grand Prix de Frane, Aprilia Racing Team Gresini has today announced that Aleix Espargaro has signed a two-year contract extension,
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Next-gen Hayabusa: Suzuki patents semi-automatic transmission for the bike
News has emerged Stateside of a series of patents from Suzuki that has the next-generation Hayabusa fitted with a semi-automatic transmission. The patents have been
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SECRET! Check out these AMAZING plans from Suzuki for live light projection tech to keep us safe (and make us faster…)
Suzuki has filed designs for a new warning and rider aid system that projects complex LED lights at the ground to both help the rider
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Video: Kawasaki revives the three-wheel Concept J funk-cycle. Beware the Tron people of the future!
It’s just one of those ‘what if’ videos that factories put out from time-to-time, but this funky bit of thinking from Kawasaki has resurfaced in
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Revealed: Suzuki’s inter-vehicle plans for group riding safety in the future
Here’s the latest part of Suzuki’s ‘connected’ vehicles plan – where motorcycles and other vehicles talk to each other in real time as they
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Honda’s fuel cell motorcycle plans revealed
These five design drawings unearthed from a heap of files registered with an international patent office show that Honda isn’t just about electric bikes
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Gorgeous Honda CBX900 illustrations appear in Japanese magazine (not real, yet, but these are sweet drawings)
Check out these illustrations from Japanese magazine YoungMachine – they are based on rumours in the Japanese motorcycle market of some sort of modern,
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BMW boss: We will launch 14 new models this year and you’ll be able to choose between drive trains
It’s good news for BMW fans – in a new statement by Harald Kruger, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW, the factory boss
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Suzuki files 13 new patents for its turbocharged roadster. Designs getting close to finished machine now!
Our ongoing story of the soon-coming turbocharged Suzuki roadsters (one in particular) has received a boost (arf!) with the latest lump of production-protecting patents
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Rumour: Top tech, new Suzuki GSX-R600 on the way for 2019
Just rumours and chat on the wind at the moment, but the American outlet Asphalt & Rubber is running a story about a GSX-R600
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BMW Italia: We’re going to develop one of these designs into a production bike!
Check out these designs for the BMW G310R – mostly they’re a bit ‘OK’ but one in particular has really jumped out and, according to
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Here’s Yamaha’s production plans for its mass-production TWO WHEEL drive bike. Conventional motor at the back, electric motor at the front.
The patents on the designs have just been granted and by registering them Yamaha has given away one of the bikes that is likely
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FIFTY new models are on their way from Harley-Davidson (yeah, 50) according to the big boss
And you might have thought that Honda puts out a lot of bikes! The American bike builder’s plans have surfaced in an interview with H-D
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REVEALED! Here’s the OFFICIAL design drawings for Honda’s V4 superbike. It’s got a rear ‘wing’. Single seat and looks like a suped-up Blade.
It’s real. It’s the V4. It’s real. That truly was worth saying twice. The reason? These actual, finished drawings of the bike from Honda itself.
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REVEALED: Honda’s secret plans for automatic braking on motorcycles!
REVEALED: Honda’s secret plans for automatic braking on motorcycles! Honda is working on an new electronic braking system that will automatically slow you down
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Revealed: Kawasaki’s plans for a more aggressive muscle cruiser – is this the Japanese Diavel?
Revealed: Kawasaki’s plans for a more aggressive muscle cruiser – is this the Japanese Diavel? Kawasaki has filed a new set of patents for a
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Norton boss unveils plans for North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix (NW200 entry could happen this year!)
Norton boss unveils plans for North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix (NW200 entry could happen this year!) Whilst the dust settles from yesterday’s announcements
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Video: AMAZING self balancing Honda REVEALED at Las Vegas tech show – check this out! It’ll blow your mind!
Video: AMAZING self balancing Honda REVEALED at Las Vegas tech show – check this out! It’ll blow your mind! We’re loving this from Honda –
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Dainese returns to the Space Race programme
Dainese returns to the Space Race programme. How about this for some motorcycle-techy stuff getting out where no motorcycle-techy stuff has been before? Following
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Honda’s filed a funky front end set-up for a scooter (and something bigger, so the rumour-mill has it)
Honda’s filed a funky front end set-up for a scooter (and something bigger, so the rumour-mill has it). Check out these patents filed by
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Check this out: huge design’s Mono Racer idea
Check this out: huge design’s Mono Racer idea. Huge moto is a custom motorcycle design and fabrication shop run by a handful of motorbike enthusiasts with industrial
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Cracked it! Kawasaki’s plans for an electric road bike with enough power for a SMALL TRUCK
Kawasaki has sorted out its cooling problems for an all-electric motorcycle which will have an engine strong enough to power a SMALL TRUCK. We’ve brought
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You take a BMW R1200R and add a German artist, industrial design house and the Wunderlich boys and you get… this
You take a BMW R1200R and add a German artist, industrial design house and the Wunderlich boys and you get… this. We like this.
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