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Evolution not revolution for Yam’s litre superbike, with high-rpm engine mods seemingly aimed at WSB improvements. Is it enough to top the league leaders though? Yamaha’s been ploughing its own superbike furrow for a decade now, with the crossplane crank big-bang configuration on its R1 engine. Having the uneven firing
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V4S with V4R frame parts, posh paint, slick bolt-ons, limited to 500 copies, number 5 sold to help support late Ducati racer Carlin Dunne’s family. We announced this bike the other day, and Ducati has released all the info on it at the Laguna Seca WSB round this weekend. It’s
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X7-based GS-schlepper sadly only a one-off for now… It’s one of the great mysteries in life – why doesn’t BMW make vans? Mercedes is happy to take cash for sweet Sprinters and Vitos, and despite the Bavarian firm making all manner of fat-arsed 4X4 Chelsea Tractors, it’s balked at making
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500 special Panigale V4s with posh paint and trick add-ons to mark 25 years since the 916 Superbike first appeared THERE’S a fair debate on whether the 916 is the most important Ducati – or whether it’s the more humble Monster. The Tamburini-designed 916 certainly wins out as the most
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Secret client has one-off ‘Shining Gold’ 800cc gold-plated roadster created by factory techs… Say what you like about MV Agusta and its owners, they’re not worried about a little bit of showing off. Hence this special Dragster 800 RC, built for an undisclosed client in the factory’s Reparto Corse race
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None more orange, or tall Not content with its critically-acclaimed new 790 Adventure, nor the posh ‘R’ version, the Matighoffen massive has come up with an even more hardcore version of the middleweight twin – this, the new 790 Adventure R Rally. Limited to a production run of just 500,
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The super-cool looking 800 triple will be in shops next year Now, obviously, the real news we want to hear from MV Agusta is an all-new F4 1000 superbike with 250bhp, active aerodynamic wings, and optional unicorn-leather soft luggage range. But we’ll settle for this in the meantime. Yes, the
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Downloadable updates for the 2016-18 Super Duke GT with semi-active springers The future isn’t as good as it used to be. We’ve not got flying cars, holidays on Mars, or chicken dinners in a pill just yet. But KTM has brought out a little taste of the Bright New World
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Official factory concept R18 shows off the new engine at Lake Como You’ve maybe not heard of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este – it’s not quite got the PR push that the NEC show gets of course. Rather than a jumble sale off the M6, it’s a rather chi-chi high-end
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Hickley teaming up with Williams F1 company, Warwick University and UK gubmint to make new electric bikes Love them or loathe them, electric bikes seem like they’re going to be here at some point. And UK bike firm Triumph has announced a new partnership with some pretty big names to
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It doesn’t take a lot of brain science to work out that the new Triumph Rocket III will be a bit naughty YES YES, we know, it’s a silly fat cruiser, and we should be only ever posting photos of balls-out superbikes AT ALL TIMES JA JA!! But bear with
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Cunning anti-theft bike storage for folks in flats… We saw this on Facebook the other week, and were well tickled. It looks like nonsense at first – but it makes perfect sense. Stop bike thieves, by hanging your bike up in the air! A sturdy block and tackle, well-bolted onto
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Italian firm set to run naked V4 Panigale-based prototype at Colorado hillclimb It’s not been a very well-kept secret – and now some more info has leaked out about Ducati’s plans for the Pikes Peak event this year. A few months ago, we learned that there’s been a ‘prototype’ entry
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Bavarian 1.8 litre cruiser coming next year – here’s the engine in a wild hand-made titanium custom showbike We spoke about this at xmas time – when BMW first showed off its new 1800cc flat-twin Boxer engine in a Japanese custom machine. And here’s another chance to see the big
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Yamaha legend gets the Supertech R worship treatment – and don’t they look ace? We’re not actually sure what boots Kenny Roberts Snr wore when he started racing dirt track back in the States, back in the day. But when he won his first world championship with Yamaha in 1978,
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