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  Yamaha R1 Caferacer Lazareth – Back to the future

  23 February 2017 / 1 comment

  Remember French customiser Lazareth and the insanity that was the Lazareth LM847? Well, Ludovic Lazareth and his crew are back with another of their amazing custom builds, this time based on a Yamaha R1 and […]

   

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  2017 MotoGP championship: the teams and the bikes

  21 February 2017 / 4 comments

  With the 2017 MotoGP world championship looming large, and the opening round in Qatar on March 26 drawing ever closer, lets have a look at some of the race bike livery and riders for this […]

   

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  2017 Triumph Street Triple 765 RS – first look in Spain

  14 February 2017 / 1 comment

  Building on the decade-long sales success of the Triumph Street Triple 675, the boys from Hinckley launched its successor in January – the 2017 Triumph Street Triple 765. With the 675 Triple consistently placing on […]

   

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  KTM buys into motorcycle HUD tech with Nuviz

  7 February 2017 / 5 comments

  In what might been seen as a strategic move against the competition, Pierer Industrie – parent company of KTM Motorcycles – has invested in American company Nuviz, which is developing a helmet-mounted HUD system. Nuviz […]

   

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  BMW Motorrad R nineT “Saline” by LuisMoto of Italy

  6 February 2017 / 3 comments

  When BMW Motorrad issued the R nineT back in 2014, it was to tap into the trend for modern-retro motorcycles, and was designed from the outset as a customiser’s machine. Italian outfit Luismoto, based in […]

   

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  2017 Suzuki GSX-R 1000 and GSX-R 1000R L7 UK prices confirmed – from RM73,165 for base model

  6 February 2017 / 3 comments

  After languishing in the shadows for a while, Suzuki is showing it is still in the superbike game, with the launch of the 2017 Suzuki GSX-R 1000 L7. Despite the GSX-R 1000 L5 not being […]

   

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  Honda motorcycles to be supercharged in the future?

  3 February 2017 / 8 comments

  Forced induction is not new to Honda motorcycles, going back to the eighties with the Honda CX-series turbocharged twins. But, is supercharging now on the cards for Honda, going by some patent drawings that have […]

   

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  Triumph T100 Bonneville “The Saint” by Macco Motors

  3 February 2017 / 0 comments

  Before there was James Bond, Leslie Charteris’ 1928 creation, Simon Templar a.k.a. The Saint, was fighting bad guys and righting wrongs. Paultan.org readers of a certain age will remember the character being played on TV […]

   

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  BMW Motorrad presents the Navigator VI GPS

  3 February 2017 / 0 comments

  Many owners of BMW Motorrad machines, notably GS riders, tend to take the road less travelled, and to that end, the Navigator VI – available from March 2017 – will allow bikers to do just […]

   

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  VIDEO: 30 years of the Suzuki GSX-R superbike

  2 February 2017 / 7 comments

  In 1984, the Suzuki GSX-R750 was unveiled at the Cologne motorcycle show in Germany. It turned the biking world upside-down, and began the trend of specialised motorcycles, machines built to do one particular motorcycling discipline […]

   

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  Erik Buell Racing shuts its doors for the final time?

  1 February 2017 / 12 comments

  With more resurrections than Voldemort, American sports bike maker Erik Buell Racing (EBR) – currently known as EBR Motorcycles – has announced it is closing down for good. We heard this before, however, when the […]

   

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  What if supercar maker Koenigsegg made superbikes?

  1 February 2017 / 3 comments

  We all know Koenigsegg makes awesome supercars, but what if the Swedish manufacturer decided to produce super bikes? This question is answered by designer Maksim Burov, from Moscow, Russia, with his renderings of an imaginary […]

   

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  2016 shows sales drop for Harley-Davidson by 3.9%

  1 February 2017 / 0 comments

  A softening sentiment in new motorcycle sales worldwide has also hit the American brand, Harley-Davidson (H-D). While the Milwaukee firm’s overall sales fell by 1.6%, in the US market, which it dominates with just over […]

   

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  2017 BMW Motorrad K1600 B makes US debut in Ohio

  27 January 2017 / 2 comments

  US riders will get their first public look of the 2017 BMW Motorrad K1600 B at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show this weekend in Cleveland, Ohio. First launched last October, the K1600 B is BMW […]

   

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  2017 Yamaha R15 Indonesia launch – 19 hp, 14.7 Nm

  27 January 2017 / 14 comments

  In Indonesia, the 150 cc class is hotly contested, on the basis of affordability. To this end, Yamaha Indonesia has launched the 2017 Yamaha R15 at the Sentul International Circuit, Bogor, Indonesia, as seen in […]

   

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