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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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  2017 MV Agusta 800 Dragster Blackout by Valter Moto

  19 January 2017 / 4 comments

  After displaying the Brutale 800 RR Ballistic Trident at the Hot Rod Custom show in Yokohama, Japan last year, MV Agusta has now unveiled another special, based on the Brutale 800 Dragster, called “Blackout”. As […]

   

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  2016 record sales year for BMW Motorrad – 145,032 motorcycles sold worldwide, up by 5.9% overall

  17 January 2017 / 1 comment

  For the sixth year running, BMW Motorrad has recorded a sales increase, this time by 5.9%. This translates to a total of 145,032 motorcycles and scooters sold throughout the world in 2016, up from 136,963 […]

   

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  KTM wins 2017 Dakar Rally – 16th straight victory

  16 January 2017 / 1 comment

  It was a KTM 1-2 at the Dakar Rally 2017 with the top two places going to Red Bull KTM factory riders Sam Sunderland of Great Britain and Matthias Walkner of Austria. Third place went […]

   

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  2017 Triumph Street Triple series launched in UK – from RM44k, expected arrival in Malaysia around April

  11 January 2017 / 3 comments

  After 10 years of sterling service, Triumph Motorcycles has finally updated and revised its Street Triple range, with the launch of the 2017 Triumph Street Triple, Street Triple R and Street Triple RS. Now displacing […]

   

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