October 18, 2015
MotoGP 2015 Phillip Island race results REPSOL Honda’s Marc Marquez has taken his 50th career Grand Prix victory at Phillip Island in Australia in one of the most dramatic MotoGP races of all time. Marquez secured the race win by just 0.249s from Movistar Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo, with Andrea Iannone completing the podium leaving […]
October 16, 2015
Yamaha to show bikeriding robot Not like this AMONG Yamaha’s concepts set to appear at the Tokyo Motor Show at the end of October is a motorcycle-riding robot, presumably to save us from the drudgery of doing the job ourselves. Because that’s what we all want, right? Along with robots to drink our beer, […]
October 16, 2015
Kawasaki Vulcan S Caf OK, so it’s only a case of a new paintwork and the addition of a windscreen (that’s already offered as an extra) but the newly-launched Kawasaki Vulcan S Café actually looks pretty good. The ER6-engined Vulcan S has been something of a sales sensation since its launch a year ago […]
October 16, 2015
Motorcyclejetskithing dream becomes reality READERS with long memories might recall that back in July 2011 we discovered that oddball British firm Gibbs was developing a motorcycle that could turn into a jetski. Now it’s finally revealed a video of the resulting device, called (of course) the Biski. Gibbs, in case you’re unaware of the […]
October 16, 2015
The rest of Yamahas Tokyo concepts AS well as its electric bikes and Resonator 125 concept, Yamaha will have a new LMW (leaning multi wheel) concept bike at the Tokyo Motor Show, similar to its Tricity, 01GEN and 03GEN designs. Teased in a lone picture, it looks sporty, a bit like the 01GEN, and […]
October 16, 2015
Yamaha Resonator 125 concept FOR a while it seemed that ‘retro’ was going to be one of those fads that comes and goes but there’s no doubt that it’s now a real motorcycling segment that’s here to stay. And Yamaha recognises that you don’t have to actually remember the ‘good old days’ to long […]
October 16, 2015
Honda Africa Twin debuts Again A COUPLE of days ago Honda put out a teaser video for its Africa Twin CRF1000L, saying ‘the adventure continues’ on 16/10/15. Understandably, the video caused speculation (from us) that there would be an additional model in the Africa Twin range, because Honda had already told us all the […]
October 16, 2015
Yamaha reveals new electric bikes The Yamaha PES2 And the PED2 LAST year Yamaha’s Annual Report suggested it would have versions its PES1 and PED1 electric bike concepts in production by 2016 – and while the schedule might have slipped a bit since then it does have two new electric concept models to unveil […]