April 20, 2016
Yamaha Tracer 700 promo video HERE’S Yamaha’s official promotional video for the long-awaited MT-07-based Tracer 700, which was revealed earlier today. It’s a classic tale of boy loses girl, boy gets girl back after moment of clarity riding Tracer 700. What? You were hoping to learn something about the bike? Sign up for […]
April 19, 2016
Yamaha hints at MWT9 launch by 2018 Yamaha’s MWT-9 concept Yamaha President and CEO Hiroyuki Yanagi Yamaha’s President and CEO Hiroyuki Yanagi has hinted at the firm’s future direction, saying it will move into a new ‘vehicle category’, a likely reference to leaning three-wheelers. Yamaha insiders have already confirmed to Visordown that we’re going […]
April 19, 2016
Promising Manx racer Billy Redmayne dies after Olivers Mount crash Billy Redmayne was set to make his TT debut this year MANX racer Billy Redmayne has died following a crash at the Oliver’s Mount Spring Cup on Sunday. The 25-year-old from Laxey is understood to have been struck from behind on the fastest section […]
April 19, 2016
Harley Roadster Revealed WE’LL admit it; if this Harley Roadster rode past right now it’s pretty unlikely that we’d instantly clock it as a new model. But on closer inspection the new bits start to show. The overall shape is closest to the firm’s Forty-Eight model, but it lacks that bike’s fat front wheel, […]
April 19, 2016
KTM 690 Duke longterm update 3 Good at the boring stuff Getting a new LCD display fitted I WISH it weren’t this way, but I’ve accepted that life on two wheels isn’t all track days and blissful rides on amazing roads. In fact, at the moment I seem to be spending all my time […]
April 19, 2016
Ducati signs Lorenzo for 2017 THE FACTORY Ducati Team has signed Jorge Lorenzo for the 2017 MotoGP season. The news follows and earlier announcement that Movistar Yamaha and Jorge Lorenzo were to part company after 2016. Lorenzo is now set to ride the Ducati Desmosedici GP in 2017 and 2018, competing alongside new team-mate […]
April 19, 2016
Yamaha and Lorenzo to part company after 2016 IT HAS been confirmed that after three titles, 41 race wins and 99 podiums, Jorge Lorenzo and Yamaha will part company at the end of the 2016 season. Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced that its partnership with Lorenzo will be ‘discontinued’ at the end of the […]
April 18, 2016
Top 10 BMW innovations This year marks the centenary of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG so we’re looking back at the company’s motorcycling innovations to list the top 10 motorcycling firsts that the firm has achieved in as many decades. Until fairly recently BMW’s mainstream motorcycling image was one of staid solidity rather than spectacular […]