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The undroppable bike
By Visordown News on 11/12/2012 14:29:00
Never overcook a corner again with the latest kit from America

SAN FRANCISCO based firm Lit Motors think they have the answer to bike safety.In the form of a self-righting gyroscopic bike that, according to the creators, would require a 'baby elephant' to knock it over (we're not sure if a baby elephant

Apple and Harley's patent clash
By Ben Cope on 27/11/2012 10:07:51
Two firms at opposite ends of the spectrum but they have one important thing in common

APPLE is one of the most high-tech companies in the world, on the bleeding edge of consumer technology and turning out ultra-modern gadgets for the style-conscious.Harley-Davidson, on the face of it, couldn't be much more different. Sure, as a brand

NOT the new Honda RCV
By Visordown News on 29/01/2013 15:03:00
Best looking mock-up yet but not quite the real thing

to recap, last we heard from Honda themselves, they are 'developing a new super sports motorcycle which will feature technologies derived from Honda’s MotoGP machines. This bike will seek to deliver the same passion and excitement that the RC30 super sports

'New' Royal Enfields
By Visordown News on 06/12/2012 13:53:00
Bullet Sports and T5 come at bargain prices

(apparently) by the Crusader Sports of 1959, it gets drop bars and a Gold Star style silencer, plus a fly screen and bar-end-mounted mirrors. New, the bike costs £5,595 - £300 more than the base Classic Chrome – or you can buy all the bits for £353.95.Better

Honda Reveals CTX700 models
By Ben Cope on 08/02/2013 09:16:07
NC700-based cruisers launched

HONDA has launched its new CTX700 and CTX700N models – the first of a new generation of bikes that blur the line between commuter, cruiser and tourer.Based on the existing NC700 machines, including the same parallel twin engine and optional dual

New learner supermoto and enduro
By Visordown News on 12/02/2013 17:57:43
SFM ZZ125 and ZX125 revealed

OK, so SFM doesn’t register highly on the famous-bike-firms-ometer but there’s a good chance you have heard of Sachs; that’s the name the company used to trade under.So this isn’t just another Chinese company reworking old Japanese designs

Vespa goes back to the future
By Sachin Rao on 22/11/2012 10:47:48
Vespa does a Mini

of borrowing lines from models past and imbuing them with a sleek sense of future direction (as opposed to retro-futurism, the pre-1960s design trend of depicting the technology of the future. The term 'decopunk' may come close, but feel free to tell me

First ride review: 2013 Honda CB1100
By Tom Higham on 18/01/2013 15:56:09
Retro ride channels the soul of its legendary ancestor

for mainstream motorcycles, with the inline four-powered bike featuring technology such as overhead cams and a front brake disc. The large engine capacity was designed to be attractive to the US market and compete with the likes of Triumph, Harley and BMW

First Ride: KTM 1190 Adventure review
By Ben Cope on 07/02/2013 00:25:13
Two-thirds of KTM's 260 technicians had a hand in the 1190 Adventure project. It's a big deal for KTM but will it be a bigger deal for the opposition?

IT'S not often you see the word ‘mayhem’ in a manufacturer’s press kit, let alone in the introduction to an adventure bike but this is KTM and those orange fellas like to do things differently.Using the same 1195cc engine that powers the RC8R

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