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India’s largest bikes maker Hero MotoCorp (HMC) has reportedly purchased a 49.2% stake in the American firm, Erik Buell Racing (EBR). (more…)

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Italian motorcycle apparels firm Alpinestars have released yet another crash data telemetry, this time from Jorge Lorenzo’s collarbone-breaking incident at the Dutch TT not too long ago. (more…)

Austrian motorcycle brand KTM has reportedly announced its plans to reveal a production-ready KTM 1290 Super Duke R at EICMA later this year. The announcement came  during the revealing of a new one-off prototype christened as the Super Duke R Patriot Edition. (more…)

With EICMA show dates coming closer, manufacturers are already scrambling to finalise their prototypes and products for the show later this year. The first report of such activities come from Ducati as the Bologna-based icon were spotted recently testing a prototype many suspect to be a water-cooled 1198cc Monster naked. (more…)

Reports have surfaced indicating that Massimo Bordi has retired from his post as CEO at MV Agusta. The late Claudio Castiglioni brought Bordi into the firm after the Castiglioni family purchased MV Agusta from Harley-Davidson. (more…)

The iconic Lotus Cars brand, famed for making lightweight sports cars with brilliantly engineered handling, will soon lend its name to a motorcycle christened the Lotus C-01. (more…)

Japanese manufacturer Suzuki has announced plans of returning to Moto GP in 2015. (more…)

A series of regulation changes in the World Superbikes Championship (WSBK) is set to take place starting next year (2014). The changes will take place gradually over the next three seasons in order to cut costs. (more…)

As we have previously reported, the rebooted Mission Motorcycles firm debuted its Mission R and RS production electric sports bikes this month. (more…)

Yamaha revealed its latest creation recently called MT-09 (FZ-09 in America). The brand’s new-for-2014 naked is also its first production three-cylinder after the demise of the XS850 three decades ago. (more…)

The Arch KRGT-1, created from the joint venture between actor Keanu Reeves’ and Gard Hollinger of Arch Motorcycles, is reportedly inching closer towards production. (more…)

It was coming and we all knew it, we just didn’t know when. We’re talking about the new baby Panigale, the 899, and now we know that it is coming soon.

See that picture at the top? Can you tell what’s different? The single-sided swing-arm is gone, and in place of that is the double-sided Swingarm of course.

The Panigale, being Ducati’s flagship, features the company’s trademark single-sided swingarm, but almost all of Ducati’s entry-level models feature the double-sided swingarm instead. (more…)

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