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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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Norn Irn’s roads legend teaming up with German racer Lucy Glöckner on S1000Rs WE’VE NEVER been to Pikes Peak in Colorado. But the Hill Climb they have there is a big deal. First run in 1916 for cars and bikes, it’s went off annually ever since, and in recent years,
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RSV4 X marks ten years of the V-four superbike WE WERE at Mugello last weekend for the launch of Aprilia RSV4 1100 Factory – and you can read what Boothy reckoned to it in the next issue of the magazine. But as well as knocking our collective cocks off with
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CR-Electric model uses tech from firm’s Mugen electric dirtbike project WE DON’T have a lot of detail on this so far – it’s just been unveiled at the Tokyo motorcycle show in Japan. But it looks like Honda is going to have a proper go at making an electric dirtbike.
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5K fun run to raise cash for Hampshire and Isle of Wight air ambulance service YOU’D THINK that the air ambulance service would be a real priority for the state to fund. Saving lives, and also reducing treatment costs later on because very sick people will be treated sooner? Sounds
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Giant shindig kicks off prep for 2019 TT in Douglas, Isle of Man THE EASTER eggs have been in the shops for weeks, WSBK and MotoGP have kicked off, and it’s just about warm enough to get out with vented leathers on (in the south-east at least…) So the TT
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All the way from the land of Toblerone and questionable gold transactions comes this rather trick Honda CB1000R… It’s a fact that Brits are still obsessed by WW2. So when an email comes from a firm called ‘Fuhrer Moto’, the chuckles are never far away. The company in question is
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Trying to do 200mph on ice is harder than it looks – who knew? WE’VE ALL done crazy things here, haven’t we? But this one sort of takes the biscuit. We mentioned the other week that Guernsey-based land speed racer Zef Eisenberg was going to Sweden to try and hit
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207bhp mega-tech sports weapon available on KILLER finance deals… Bruce W (and me!) are just back from riding the new 2019 BMW S1000RR at a damp Estoril circuit. And it’s fair to say the bike impressed – but you can read more about that in the NEW ISSUE of the
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KHI has dusted off the plans for the original 1972 superbike, and is making new cylinder heads OKAY, THIS is a bit of a niche one – and is probably one for our sister title Classic Motorcycle Mechanic – but it did tickle us. Over in Japan, Kawasaki has announced
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