KTM Rumored to Work on Small-Displacement Twin Bike Family
30 Dec 2014, 11:23 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / House Mattighofen is said to be working more or less secretively on a new family of small-displacement motorcycles, rumors in the Indian motorcycle industry say. These new bikes are however, going t...
World Superbike Considering Supersport 300 Racing Series
27 Dec 2014, 16:03 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The Superbike Commission is considering the introduction of a new class in the WSBK championship, and talks have already been started with the manufacturers. Representatives of rights holder Dorna S...
Mahindra CR 321 Concept Could Be an Interesting Bike
23 Dec 2014, 10:10 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Designer Oberdan Bezzi has anticipated Mahindra’s first potential move in the segment of small-displacement bikes which might sell well in Europe. His all-new Mahindra CR 321 Concept is a dimi...
North of 100,000th Bikes Made This Year in Mattighofen, KTM Celebrates with 2015 MY 1190 Adventure
20 Dec 2014, 14:48 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / KTM announces that they have gone past the 100,000-unit milestone in the Mattighofen factory. On December 16 at 9am, the 100,000th motorcycle manufactured this year rolled off the assembly line in t...
Small-Displacement Suzuki GSX-R Spotted in India
18 Dec 2014, 12:45 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Only days after we ran the editorial on the small-displacement sport Suzuki machines, or better said, the lack of such bikes, news arrives from India, where things seem to be on the move in this dir...
Does Suzuki Hate Small GSX-R Bikes?
11 Dec 2014, 17:09 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Yamaha YZF-R125, R25, R3. Honda CBR125 and the rest of the funky bunch. Quarter-liter Ninjas and the Ninja 300 bearing the Kawasaki emblem. Suzuki GSX-R… wait a bit, Suzuki what? I could very...
That's How You Train on a Motorcycle
11 Dec 2014, 17:08 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I watched the video below in sincere admiration for the rider and his skills and I even smiled thinking about how would getting licensed be like if this was a mandatory road test. Honestly, I am not...
Darizt Design 30th Attempt: Indonesian Custom Bikes Now Look Awesome
10 Dec 2014, 16:47 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It’s been some time since we last ran a story on Darizt Design machines, so if you’re a new reader the name of Agus Sudariswanto may only sound weird and that’s all there is. Still...
Italjet Shows Buccaneer 250i, a New Retro Café-Scrambler
9 Dec 2014, 14:32 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / We mentioned about Italjet’s plans to start manufacturing electric motorcycles, in a way using its electric bicycle platform as starting ground. Now it’s time for another piece of pleasa...
2015 Yamaha YZF-R1, R1M and R3 European Prices Announced
2 Dec 2014, 14:24 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It’s been quite a busy autumn for Yamaha and it looks like the guys in charge of the brand’s sport bikes range have burned the midnight oil to have the all-new YZF-R1, its R1M track-focu...
BMW-TVS Small-Displacement Bike Spotted in the Wild
29 Nov 2014, 08:54 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Things are on the move in the BMW-TVS partnership, as the first spy shot of the new-generation bike has recently surfaced. The shot is as frustrating as it could ever be, as whoever managed to captu...
Multiple 2015 Model Year KTM Off-Road Bikes Recalled over Fork that Needs Checking
26 Nov 2014, 14:03 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / KTM announces no less than 20 bike models will have to be brought in over at an authorized dealer for a mandatory check in the fork assembly. The Austrian manufacturer has no specified the number of...
Chinese WK Bikes Shows K400R Budget Adventure Machine that Looks Decent
26 Nov 2014, 12:59 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / There’s a high chance that the name WK Bikes doesn’t ring a bell in your ears, but things might just change. The Chinese manufacturer is slowly making inroads in the European markets and...
2015 Honda CB125F to Arrive in Europe Very Soon
19 Nov 2014, 12:26 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Honda announces the all-new CB125F, the successor of the CBF125, one of the best-selling eighth-liter machines in Europe. The new small-displacement Honda will be introduced this very weekend at the...
KTM 390 Adventure Bike May Still Become Reality
16 Nov 2014, 09:28 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / We are positive that there still are young riders out there who are waiting for the KTM 390 Adventure. Once the initial rumor surfaced and the online media picked it up, imagination ran wild, and fo...
EBR and Hero Prepare Small-Displacement Line-Up for the Future
14 Nov 2014, 13:38 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Erik Buell Racing and its Indian partner Hero are working on a future line-up of small-displacement motorcycles. The info comes from EBR directly, via Gary Pietruszewski, VP of global sales, whom we...
Hero Wants a Piece of the European Market with Its HX250R at EICMA · Live Photos
4 Nov 2014, 18:43 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / We are rather disappointed to see that Erik Buell Racing has not brought the 1190 machines over to EICMA as we expected, and preferred to rely on a huge booth full with Hero bikes. However, among al...
Leonart Daytona: Are 125ers Allowed to Look That Good?
22 Oct 2014, 14:02 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Some fellows are quite stubborn in their belief that a bike must be big in order to look cool. I won’t say they’re a bunch of fools, but I’ll just show them the Leonart Dyatona and...
2015 Yamaha YZF-R3 First Official Pictures Show a Future Winner
16 Oct 2014, 15:47 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The 2015 Yamaha YZF-R3 is finally here, and we’ve got almost all the details about this ultra-hot appearance in the small-displacement segment. As expected, the R3 is a step up from the R25 ma...
Hero HX 250R Comes to Europe
10 Oct 2014, 11:53 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Hero has filed a trademark request for the HX 250R name, and this means we are definitely getting it in Europe. The European Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) mentions the trade...