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Cool concept BMW ‘Lightburner’ sketch is reeeaal purty!
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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
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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. The lad can slide a supermoto around, no doubt about that.
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SCOOP: New 400cc retro-style, fuel injected Scrambler for £4k-ish
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Mash is bringing out this new, retro-style scrambler which will be on sale in September. The 400 Scrambler will be biek model number 12 in the Mash range and uses the four-year old firm’s four cylinder, 400cc bike which will put out 27.6bhp @ 7000rpm, the bike will have a 790mm seat height and…
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Gorgeous new paint on MV Agusta F4RR
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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. Lovely stuff.
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SCOOP: Side on image of 2016 GSX-R1000R from Japanese journos
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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. Now, these are the Japanese journos and test riders who have a finger right on the pulse of Suzuki’s going on and this is what they say the new…
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Erik Buell Racing ‘acquired’ by Indian company Hero for $2.8m
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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!
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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
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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.
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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. Here’s a rather jolly nice clip from the film that makes cool bikes look even cooler. Nicely done, Mr Cruise – you talented sod. https://youtu.be/ha-MGEXS81k
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SCOOP: Royal Enfield Himalayan pre-prod bikes spotted
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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.
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