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Wild 1.1 litre superbike will set you back more than £21k. Tuono 1100 with Ohlins EC semi-active suspension is £17k The good guys at Aprilia UK have been hard at it with the abacuses and the VisiCalc spreadsheet and come up with a price list for its sweet-looking 2019 range.
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New Suzuki Hayabusa for 2020 according to Japanese bike mag Young Machine (almost definitely)… We love the guys at Young Machine magazine in Japan – and they’re regularly on the ball when it comes to new bikes coming out of the big four firms over there. So it’s always worth
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…at a mad hipster custom show in Japan! Slept off the Xmas dinner yet? We’ve just about cleared the decks (although there’s a box of min Waitrose mince pies still unopened in the cupboard ffs), and getting set for 2019. One thing we missed just before Festivus, though, was this
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Brit MotoGP hero moves from long term helmet supplier Arai. This is a bit of a surprise – Cal Crutchlow’s been an Arai man for as long as we can remember here, certainly back to his British Supersport days. A quick check in the archives shows him wearing AGV, OGK
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Japanese lid-gurus unveil 80s-inspired helmet YOU might have noticed that things have been a little quiet round here this week. Yes, we’re all living das Yuletide dream, visiting the rellies, eating our own bodyweight in Hotel Chocolat finery, and pouring unfeasible amounts of lightly-adulterated ethanol down our necks. Luckily though,
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Dan Linfoot, James Hillier and Bradley Ray headlining festive gig at City store IN THE big smoke tomorrow (Thursday Dec 20)? Then get thee to Shoreditch, and pop into the Dainese store on Commercial Street, where there’ll be food, drink and a load of Dainese’s BSB stars to schmooze. Dan
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Austrian firm knocking 20% off its dirt range STUCK FOR that last minute xmas gift? Well how about a full-bore 450 KTM enduro, with the VAT paid? As we all know, riding offroad is a great way to get fit, hone your bike skillz, and get valuable loyalty points at
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Beats a gold carriage clock and a tin of Roses we reckon… WEE DANI Pedrosa is off to pastures new next year, and is set to see what he can do with the KTM MotoGP effort. After 18 years in Grand Prix racing, he’s starting as test rider for the
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IT SOUNDS like a mad bar-room discussion. But this one comes right from the top. KTM boss Stefan Pierer has given an interview to German website Speedweek, where he reckons the Austrian outfit could well be interested in buying Ducati from its parent company, Volkswagen Audi Group (VAG). “Ducati is
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LOOKING FOR a sweet bit of bike jewellery as a xmas gift? Then this could well be just the thing. Okay, most superbikes come with a quickshifter these days, but Brit firm HM Quickshifter offers an upgraded auto-blipper part, using a strain gauge sensor rather than a simple sprung switch
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MAYBE IT’S us. Maybe it’s the long dark winters. Maybe it’s a reaction to South Park. But whatever the reasons, the genius behind this wacked-out Kawasaki ZRX1200R on the Canadian eBay site has produced something truly epic. It’s hard to know where exactly to start. The triple front headlights? The
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Tasty 1200 retro roadster has 96bhp motor with all the 60s style OKAY, THIS is a little outside our normal brief. But the new Triumph Speed Twin that’s just been released has a certain je ne sais quoi about it (it was launched in Paris…), so we’re having a bit
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THEY NEED to move fast these end-of-year-review book folks. And with the 2018 MotoGP season consigned to history just over a fortnight ago, the official Dorna-sanctioned review is hot off the printers. Produced by Mat Oxley – arguably the best MotoGP scribe in the business – the 2018 review has
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THIS IS either genius, or the end of the world as we know it. A French biker is launching a new product which lets you broadcast your thoughts from the back of your bike – instantly! The MotoChat pairs up a bright red LED dot-matrix display with a Bluetooth microphone
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IF YOU want to make a small fortune in racing, start out with a big one, goes the old saw.
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