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Ducati: XTreme or 1199?
By Visordown News on 28/06/2011 16:34:49
The face of the new Ducati superbike surfaces
mentioned that name before that point, so we could be in for a surprise again this year when the official name of the new Ducati is revealed at the Milan show in November. At the rate pictures and info are leaking, it might well be the only surprise about
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Husqvarna Concept Strada
By Visordown News on 29/11/2011 13:29:15
New road bike concept based around BMW's 650cc water-cooled single
in Husqvarna Motorcycles’ home territory at the recent EICMA show in Milan, the Concept Strada is further evidence of the company’s commitment to expanding its model portfolio and providing fans of the legendary Italian brand with a new series of road
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Interview: Mr Fukunaga, Fireblade project leader
By mark forsyth on 25/11/2011 15:56:47
Twenty years of Fireblade experience
Why isn't there traction control on the new Fireblade?As a concept we acknowledge that traction control systems are an important thing as you'll have seen in Milan the traction control system on the VFR. What we're studying at the moment is the best
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First Ride: 2007 Aprilia Shiver SL750
By Kevin Ash on 02/04/2008 15:27:50
At last Aprilia have arrived with a middleweight. Laden with high-tech features and cutting edge styling. Only it's 750cc. And £5600. You have to ask, is this cheating?
Golf then.The biggest pain with riding a prototype was a more pragmatic one: it wasn't road registered, so Aprilia blagged the Fiat group's vast test centre at Bellaco, west of Milan - ideal aside from an understandable car bias manifested as Armco
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First Ride: CR&S Vun
By Roland Brown on 02/04/2008 15:46:03
It's pricey single-cylinder special time.
, Rotax-engined single produced by CafŽ Racers & Specials, a small Milan-based firm. Vun, which means One in Milanese dialect, is being imported by Bedfordshire dealers Flitwick Motorcycles. Its basic package - 54bhp motor as used by BMW's F650; frame
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First Ride: 2008 CR&S Vun
By Roland Brown on 27/05/2008 22:48:46
It's pricey single-cylinder special time.
, Rotax-engined single produced by Cafe Racers & Specials, a small Milan-based firm. Vun, which means One in Milanese dialect, is being imported by Bedfordshire dealers Flitwick Motorcycles. Its basic package - 54bhp motor as used by BMW's F650; frame
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James Whitham Column - Dec 2007
By James Whitham on 14/12/2007 16:05:18
The horror loos of Vallelunga
of the Mont Blanc tunnel the ferry ticket and road tolls in France had ravaged our meager resources. By Milan all the dosh, and the biscuits had run out and we’d resorted to ‘service station foraging’ (stealing diesel out of trucks) to keep the van going. We
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Class of '89 - Adventure heroes
By Jim Bowen on 06/09/2010 12:23:55
Rally replicas of the desert kings, the Honda Africa Twin in a used battle with the Yamaha Super Ténéré
gliding through the streets of Paris and Milan. That was then, but we now are a nation fully immersed in the Adventure Sport dream with a home market showing its greatest, and almost only, growth in that same segment.So the scene is set for a showdown
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Living with a 2005 Triumph Daytona 650
By James Burton on 15/11/2005 15:35:03
James Burton was a very high up very well paid advertising guru. Here he is reviewing a Daytona 650. Can we put it on expenses?
twisty trip along the N5 into Switzerland led us over the mountainous Simplonpass down to Milan and then into northeast Italy.The journey was breathtaking, but you need to respect the corners doubling back on each other. With the Daytona you get
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First Ride: Mondial Piega-Monza
By Daryll Young on 04/07/2003 10:16:12
Probably the most beautiful production bike in the world, can the Mondial Piega-Monza handle as good as it looks? Daryll sneaked through quarantine to test the bike at Monza
The Milan-based Mondial factory originally built three-wheeler delivery vans, but founder Count Giuseppe Boselli's passion always lay in motorcycles. In 1945 he bought plans for a 4-stroke 125cc dohc engine and in 1948 the first Fratelli Boselli Mondial
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