2014 BMW C600GT and C600 Sport Maxi Scooters New Colors and Upgrades
17 Jul 2013, 12:38 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Both BMW maxi scooters, the C600GT and C600S sport are receiving upgrades and new colors for the 2014 season, the Bavarian manufacturer in forms us. The 2014 BMW C600 Sport will no longer be avai...
BMW S1000RR-Derived Streetfighter Spied
17 Jul 2013, 10:14 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / We know BMW is working hard on a new liter-class terror in a naked guise based on the acclaimed S1000RR machine, and here are some more spy shots of the upcoming monster. It's yet hard to te...
How Yamaha's MotoGP Engine Lease Program Works
16 Jul 2013, 15:46 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / €800,000 ($1,050,000) per rider per year, this is the cost of running an Yamaha M1 engine into a non-MSMA motorcycle in the 2014 MotoGP season, the Tuning Forks boss Lin Jarvis explains. As...
2014 MotoGP: NGM Mobile Forward Racing to Lease Yamaha M1 Engines
16 Jul 2013, 12:39 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / NGM Mobile Forward Racing Team have confirmed they have a verbal agreement with Yamaha for leasing their M1 engines for the next MotoGP season. While a signed contract was not mentioned yet, we do b...
New Colors for BMW F800R and G650GS
16 Jul 2013, 10:33 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / BMW Motorrad is readying their fleet for the next season and we've already seen several Bavarian changing liveries for the 2014 season (S100RR, R1200GS and K1600GT). Now it's time for ano...
KTM Thinks about Moto2 and World Superbike, not MotoGP
16 Jul 2013, 09:38 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / We know there are a lot of guys who would like to see KTM as a MotoGP entry any time soon, but we have to disappoint them. KTM's CEO Stefan Pierer expressly mentioned that the premium class ...
Harley-Davidson Does Not Shut Down Adelaide Plant, Receives Controversial Government Help
15 Jul 2013, 13:09 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Good news for the 110+ workers on Harley-Davidson's New Castalloy manufacturing plant in Adelaide, Australia: the plant will not shut down, as foretold back in 2011. After shedding about 90 ...
Record Attendance at the 2013 BMW Motorrad Days
14 Jul 2013, 10:03 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The Bavarian manufacturer is thrilled to announce a record-breaking attendance for this year's BMW Motorrad Days: more than 40,000 visitors came over the weekend to the even in Garmisch-Partenk...
Kymco USA Will Attend the 2013 AIMExpo
11 Jul 2013, 15:17 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / We kind of saw this coming, as it was only natural that Kymco should not miss a great opportunity to show their new machinery in growing event such as the 2013 American International Motorcycle Expo...
Triumph's New Cruisers with Harley-Davidson Disguise
11 Jul 2013, 14:05 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / MCN has revealed some spy shots of two upcoming Triumph cruisers, pretty carefully disguised as Harley-Davidson parts. Aside from the fact that Triumph is clearly aiming to get a larger chunk of the...
BMW 2014 K1600GT Line-Up Facelift
11 Jul 2013, 09:37 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / 2014 model year brings changes to the BMW K1600GT family, with three of the machines receiving new paint, and a new sporty trim being prepared for the next year. The most important addition to th...
Taylormade Moto2 All-Carbon Bike Prototype
9 Jul 2013, 14:34 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / A truly interesting and eye-catching monocoque chassis design comes from Taylormade as a daring proposition for Moto2 racing machinery. The Carbon2 machine was developed by the former Buell test rid...
Drag Specialties AGM Maintenance-Free Battery for Large Engines
9 Jul 2013, 10:11 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Drag Specialties shelves the AGM, a high-power maintenance-free battery created to provide more juice for starting big engines easier. Since starting a cold big-bore touring bike such as a Harle...
Moto Guzzi Norge and V7 Get New Colors
8 Jul 2013, 13:10 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Nice move from Moto Guzzi as the old Italian manufacturer announces the revamping of two motorcycles in their line-up: the GT8V Norge and the V7 machines. According to Faster and Faster, Guzzi is...
BMW Motorrad Announces Exceptional Half-Year Figures
8 Jul 2013, 10:22 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It looks like BMW's motorcycle operations are recovering quite well after the past years of decline, as the German group announced their best-ever half-year sales and growth. BMW Motorrad an...
Hero Starts Operations in Africa
7 Jul 2013, 07:23 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Hero MotoCorp, one of the biggest motorcycle manufacturers in the world, announces the beginning of their operations in Africa. Hero's first foothold on African soil will be Kenya, where the In...
Watch Ducati's New Corporate Commercial
6 Jul 2013, 09:08 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / There is a huge cool factor about pretty much any bike Ducati has ever manufactured, and we were kind of expecting to see this "je ne sais quoi" seized and put in an artistic form in the n...
Yamaha Shows Mystery Parallel Twin Engine
5 Jul 2013, 09:09 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Nice to see Yamaha on a more mysterious side of doing business, teasing all sorts of new products, showing new engine about which nobody said anything as to they're real or concepts, and then &...
Yamaha Recalls 2012 Big Bear for Suspension Issues
4 Jul 2013, 10:58 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Yamaha and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are recalling around 100 Big Bear ATV units in the model year 2012. The CPSC received complaints about the front shock absorbers of said v...
KTM 390 Duke Production Not Affected by Bajaj Strikes
4 Jul 2013, 10:07 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Good news for those waiting for the long-expected KTM 390 Duke, as our two-wheeled Indian friends inform us that the strike at the Bajaj plant in Chakan did not affect the production for this orange...