MoreBikes August 2025

Q&A: Faulty Carbon Wheel Crash: Who’s Liable?

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Mark Lancaster

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27th August 2025

Track Day trauma involving a faulty wheel given the once-over by our legal eagle Andrew Prendergast of White Dalton Motorcycle Solicitors Q. I have a very trick GSXR1000 that I bought new. However, I have never ridden on the road and purchased it with the sole purpose of turning it into a track bike. I…
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BUYING A USED Daytona 675R

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Mark Lancaster

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20th August 2025

In 2013, Triumph launched an all-new Daytona 675R, a bike that helped form the basis of the current Moto2 project. If you’re looking to buy a used one, Jon Urry has some advice… Despite kicking the Japanese manufacturers’ collective inline four backsides since 2006 with their triple, in 2013 when Triumph launched the all-new Daytona…
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HJC F100 helmet

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Mark Lancaster

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16th August 2025

The latest flip-front lid from Korean firm HJC, the F100 is ideal for daily rides or longer tours, especially on warmer days. It’s a full-rotation design, so you can wear it with the chinbar fully back as an open-facer for a breeze on the chin, or closed up as a full facer. There’s a built-in…
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NEW KIT: Nomad luggage system from Oxford

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Mark Lancaster

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13th August 2025

Editor Bruce Wilson has put it through its paces. Here’s what you need to know… WEB: www.oxfordproducts.com What’s a motorcycle trip without luggage? Painful, is probably the truth, which is a word I’d also use to describe some soft luggage I’ve used on motorcycles over the years. From awkward fitting systems to wayward loads, I’ve…
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TORQUING POINTS: Put a potato in your tank

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Mark Lancaster

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9th August 2025

Alan Dowds explains… Picture the scene. It’s 2045, and you’re out for a ‘Sunday blast’ on your Royal Enfield Chennai 850 MotoGP replica (Enfield has won the last 10 MotoGP and WSBK titles in a row, but that’s another story…). The AI agent which runs the bike sends a message to the comms chip just…
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GREAT RIDE: Heavenly Hebridean

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Mark Lancaster

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8th August 2025

Okay, we might be pushing the limits a little by calling this a Day Ride, but if ever you’re in the vicinity, here’s a route you’ll definitely want to tick off. Willie Davidson took his bike, and his camera. Here’s what you need to know: I was lucky enough to have a fair degree of flexibility…
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DUCATI Hailsham

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Mark Lancaster

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7th August 2025

Ducati UK has opened another major new dealership, this time in East Sussex. Ducati Hailsham is part of the Sykes Motorcycles group, alongside Royal Enfield and Harley-Davidson outlets, and has taken on a brand-new unit in Hailsham, near Eastbourne. The store had a grand opening event last month, with Ducati legend Carl Fogarty as special…
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ARAI: 25th anniversary Final Edition Joey Dunlop replica

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Mark Lancaster

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6th August 2025

Last month marked 25 years since the greatest road racer of all, Joey Dunlop, died in a crash while competing in Estonia on 2 July, 2000. Joey was an Arai man through and through, and the Japanese firm has honoured his memory regularly with replica designs, and this is the latest, to mark the 25th…
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KTM: 2026 KTM 690 R

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Mark Lancaster

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5th August 2025

KTM’s had a few other things on its mind of late of, course – but its immediate future seemed to be secured by a massive £670m cash investment from Indian partner Bajaj last month. It’s still coming up with new machinery though, and gave the world a sneak preview of the new 2026 690 Enduro…
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BRITISH security chain maker is back

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Mark Lancaster

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4th August 2025

There was some sad news last year when the British Pragmasis security chain maker went out of business. But the firm is back, under new ownership, after it was taken over by ex-journalist Ben Cope (who launched the original Visordown website). Renamed Pragmasis Engineering Ltd., it’s set to restart work producing, designing and testing some…
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APRILIA: RS125GP

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Mark Lancaster

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2nd August 2025

Aprilia’s had a couple of decent results in MotoGP this year, and is celebrating with this special edition of the RS125 learner-legal supersports bike. The 2025 RS125 GP comes in the black/purple graphics of the factory team of Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi, and comes with a quickshifter and single-seal cover. The days of derestricted…
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SUZUKI: New Retro Roadsters…

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Mark Lancaster

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28th July 2025

Back in the early 1970s, they didn’t call naked bikes ‘naked bikes’ – because virtually every bike was ‘naked’ in that they had nothing at all in the way of a fairing. Pedantry aside though, Suzuki has just released a couple of new naked machines, with 1970s style, built on its current GSX-8S roadster platform.…
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