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YOU’VE PROBABLY noticed that there’s been a massive upsurge in the number of slags who go about stealing bikes in the UK these days. Whether it’s down to a drop in police numbers, the decline and fall of civilisation, or the availability of small, powerful angle grinders, the fact is,
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WE ALL sort of know when the TT is – end of May, start of June, kinda, sorta. But it’s useful to know the exact dates so we can move silly things like weddings, births, dream holidays to make room for DAS TT RACES!! Thankfully, your old buddies here
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WE COVERED all the big superbikes last week, but there were a few other pieces of sauce at the EICMA Milan show, which tickled our fancy. First up was the MV Agusta Brutale Serie Oro (gold series). We’ve ridden plenty of Brutales over the years of course, and Agusta’s take
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NOW, WE’RE the last ones to judge a book by its cover here at FB Towers. Just because a bike (or a human) looks really pretty on the outside doesn’t mean it won’t stink on the inside, when you ride it (!) But we’re willing to make exceptions sometimes. Like
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THIS HAS just appeared at the old Yamaha 2019 Milan show launch event. It’s the most special R1 ever – and it’s limited to just TWENTY bikes – one for each year of R1 production. Dubbed the GYTR edition, it’s pretty much a straight replica of the Suzuka-winning machine from
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OKAY, we’ve seen a few things over the years. But this is something else. We’ve just downloaded the specs and pics of the new 2019 Panigale V4R, and we’ve had to go and have a little lie down for ten minutes. Because the spec of this thing is just shocking.
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WHILE we were quite rightly amazed by the Ducati Panigale V4S launched earlier this year, we did quibble a bit at the capacity increase. In a litre bike test, the V4 had a load more power, partly because it has a 1,103cc motor. How long before someone else joined them?
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Aren’t they lovely folks at MV Agusta? In the runup to next week’s Milan bike show, the firm’s just announced that it’s rinsed its shareholders for forty million Euros, in order to build a whole new line of inline-four litre bikes. Smart. And they’re starting off with a new Brutale
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WE’RE LIKE excited kids at xmas here in FB towers at the moment, crossing off the days till Santy Claus is coming. But this Santy isn’t bringing selection boxes and Playstation 4s – he’s bringing all the new hot metal for 2019! And there’s going to be a load of
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THE GREAT Barry Sheene rode a few bikes over his career – but it’s fair to say that he’s linked most closely with the Suzuki RG500. And Suzuki’s rebuilding the very first RG500 at this year’s NEC bike show in Birmingham. The G-54 model was the prototype 500 two-stroke square
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Hinckley’s retro bandwagon rolls on with another old-skool dirtbike. Is it ‘meh’ or is it ‘wow’? When we were lads, a ‘scrambler’ was what your mad old uncle called a motocross bike. “Check mah new scrambler out son!” he’d shout as he careered across a field on a Maico 490,
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WE’RE big fans of the new Honda Monkey 125. Okay – it’s just a 125, but there’s something about that phat munkee style that just makes you grin. Plus, we were always taught that a small bike is just the job for perfecting your 12 o’clock wheelies in comfort and
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WOW. Just look at it. This is a limited-edition, celebratory version of the legendary MV Agusta F4, named for the firm’s saviour, Claudio Castiglioni. Claudio died in 2011, after a lifetime in the Italian bike business, running Cagiva, Ducati, Husqvarna – and most famously, MV Agusta. This final edition
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OUR BRAVE boy, young Carl Stevens, is currently braappping his way round Italy on the new 2019 Ducati Multistrada 1260 Enduro. We dragged him away for a moment to get some first impressions on the new beast – here’s what he reckons to it so far. “We’ve just been
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KAWASAKI’S been doing great work recently, with its monstrous supercharged H2 bikes, new 125 Ninja and Z learner-machines, plus the sweet beefed-up ZX-10R and ZX-636R models released for 2019. But there’s more on the way! The firm’s global website has four bikes sitting under dust sheets, all set to be
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