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MV Agusta Reveals 2021 Superveloce Range With New S Model Included
Wire-Spoked Superveloce? I’m in. Euro 5 regulations haven’t hampered MV Agusta’s 2021 Superveloce, in fact, the Italian motorcycle manufacturer has taken the opportunity to bring some notable updates to the Superveloce line, including a new S version that has never been seen before. Both the engine and chassis for the 2021 Superveolce have seen some …
Red Bull KTM’s Factory Team Just Acquired 2021 Dakar Winner Kevin Benavides
The Champion Joins A Team Built for Winning The 2021 Dakar Rally Champion – Kevin Benavides – just signed on with the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team for the rest of the 2021 FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship, and will continue into 2022 as one of their primary riders for the upcoming Dakar Rally …
The New KTM 1290 Super Duke RR Sells Out in 48 Minutes
Gone In 48 Minutes In just 48 minutes after going public, the new (and limited) KTM 1290 Super Duke RR completely sold out online. The 2021 Super Duke RR is quite an astonishing motorcycle to behold, so it’s no wonder every single bike sold off the shelves in such a short amount of time. Everything …
Patent Files Reveal Harley-Davidson Is Working On Automated Braking System
Why Stop When the Bike Can Do It for You? With so many many motorcycle OEM’s bringing big tech ideas to market such as front and rear radaring, it was only a matter of time before Harley-Davidson threw their chips into the pile as well. Patent filings reveal that the bar and shield are hard …
Check Out Benelli’s New 302R Entry-Level Sportbike
A Much Needed Update Chinese manufacturer Benelli has been hard at work since being reborn in the early 2000’s after a long absence from the motorcycle world. Although the design work is mainly done in Italy, the bikes have been exclusively manufactured in China. Qianjiang Group (the owner of Benelli), began the brand’s invasion into …
IT’S OFFICIAL: Royal Enfield’s Meteor 350 Is Finally Coming to America
Meteor Strikes North American Coasts Every time that I write an article about the Meteor 350’s success across seas, there are always comments left from our readers along the lines of: “Awesome, but when the hell will Royal Enfield bring the Meteor to America? I’m sure it will sell great”. Honestly, I didn’t have an …
Triumph’s Trident 660 Arrives On Indian Shores
The Final Piece to the Asian Market Puzzle In the short amount of time that the Trident has been available for purchase, it has already cemented itself as a brand favorite when it comes to riders seeking an intermediate motorcycle manufactured by a British OEM. The Trident’s sales have been steady – meaning the naked …
Dunlop Just Released Street-Legal Trials Tires
Trials Tires For The Road Do you ever feel like bouncing on your rear wheel in traffic? On your daily commute, do you imagine yourself taking the stairs up to your office on your motorcycle? Have you ever wanted to complete your full 10-mile commute without your front tire touching the ground? If the answer …
Upgrade Your Yamaha Ténéré 700 With a Touratech Comfort Seat
Ténéré Touring Potential The Yamaha Ténéré family was designed to ride on any surface, but more importantly, go the distance. To help your Ténéré 700 touring experience meet its maximum potential, Touratech has a newly introduced Comfort Seat to make your ride better on long-distance rides. Through their own testing with multiple different riders, Touratech …
Daytona Bike Week Could Be Cause of Florida’s Spike in COVID-19 Cases
Spring Break, or Bike Week? The ten-day festival of rides, dines, and bike swaps came to an end on March 14th, 2021. This wasn’t any small-scale event, either. Over 300,000 riders made their way to Daytona to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the event. It’s been two weeks since the festival, and cases local to …
Royal Enfield Pulls Out Of Vietnamese Market
Scooters Continue to Dominate Vietnam After four grueling years of trying to establish themselves in the delicate Vietnamese market, Royal Enfield is pulling out of the country after failing to meet sales expectations. Two-wheeled modes of transportation are very successful in Vietnam. Out of the roughly 93 million residents of the country, there are around …
KTM Unveils Limited Edition 1290 Super Duke RR
KTM has officially unveiled its latest super naked weapon in the form of a lighter and more precise, 2021 1290 Super Duke RR. The build-up to the release for the new Super Duke RR wasn’t exactly a surprise. Many of KTM’s patent filings and leaks were sprinkled in the news over the past few months …
Increase Your Sportbike’s Downforce With Rizoma’s Stealth Mirrors
Sleek and Slippery In my opinion, one of the coolest parts of Kawasaki’s H2R is the winglets that are located where the mirrors typically are. Since the H2R isn’t a “street-legal” motorcycle, the Japanese brand opted for winglets (often found on MotoGP bikes) to produce downforce; because going forwards faster is more important than looking …
Honda Japan Officially Pulls The Covers On The GB350
GB350 Touches Down in Japan After all this chatter and multiple (probably 10) news posts regarding India’s wildly successful H’Ness CB350, Japan finally gets its turn… Except this model will be named the GB350 instead. Honda has made some very minor changes to the bike to make it more appealing to the Japanese market. Although …
Mips Releases 2020 Annual Report
Mips Concludes 2020 As A Success Mips is a big deal. They have over 26 partnerships with the world’s biggest names in helmet manufacturing that have resulted in the construction of 729 helmets that feature the almighty Mips technology. The safety titan has just published a 128-page report detailing every crucial detail that made Mips …
Honda Has Reached Full Agreement With The Swappable Battery Consortium!
Swap It Like It’s Hot If you’ve been up to date with recent EV motorcycle news, you’d know that many of the world’s biggest OEM’s have come together to create a “Swappable Battery Consortium for Electric Motorcycles” to allow for easier access and better R&D when it comes to the batteries that will be powering …
Upgrade Your New Honda, KTM, or BMW Bike With Sargent’s New REVolution Seat
Take a Seat… What a REVolutionary name for an aftermarket motorcycle part… Jokes aside, swapping the seat out on your bike can be a super quick modification that can provide tons of new comfort to your ride. After I took my first 600-mile journey on my Yamaha FJ-09, the first thing I did was upgrade …
Ruroc’s Atlas 3.0 Helmet Is Now Available On Their Website
With Updated Aerodynamics! Back when Ruroc first started selling helmets in 2019, my Instagram feed was completely plagued with advertisements for these graphic-heavy helmets. At first, I thought it was just a cheap gimmick, but here we are two years later and Ruroc has managed to solidify themselves as a legitimate helmet manufacturer capable of …
Recall: Ducati Multistrada V4
Since the release of the new Ducati Multistrada V4, adventure-touring fans have been jumping for joy, but those celebrations are about to be cut short. Ducati has found issues with the valve guides in the V4 Granturismo engines that can lead to excessive wear and inevitably losing power, then failing at the top end of …
Check Out LS2’s New FF805 Race Helmet
Racing Quality At An Affordable Pricepoint Spanish helmet maker LS2 has a brand new helmet that they cooked up for the 2021 MotoGP season, and much like Shoei’s X14, you can buy this lid for your own riding on the road/track as well. The LS2 FF805 Thunder was fully designed and developed to be used …
Dunlop’s New Mutant Tires Are Built To Take On All Terrains
Mutant DNA You probably saw the thumbnail image for this article before clicking and said to yourself, “what the hell is going on with the tread pattern on those tires?”. Well, Dunlop took their new tire to Bruce Banner’s lab and he shoved it in the microwave with the frog to mutate this tire into …
Could Kawasaki Really Be Planning A Ninja 700R?
Is A New Category Of Motorcycle Emerging? Yamaha just pulled the sheets on the official naming for their upcoming “R7” – a two-cylinder sport-bike with up-right ergonomics and parts shared from the highly successful naked Mt-07… To make things short, just imagine it to be an MT-07 with fairings. Why did Yamaha do this? Well, …
Harley-Davidson Has A New Video Detailing Pan Americas Rolling Off Production Line
The Pan American Dream Nears Completion After 120 years of V-twin cruiser excellence, Harley-Davidson has finally changed the course of their ship and stepped into the unknown with the introduction of their new 2021 Pan America ADV motorcycle. Although H-D has made a few non-cruiser projects (namely the Livewire) in recent years, it’s even a …
Triumph Has Big Updates For Their Upcoming Electric Motorcycle / Powertrain
The Fully British Project Is Nearing The Half-Way Point News about Triumph’s TE-1 electric motorcycle has been circulating since early 2019 when they initially announced the big undertaking. However, since then, things have been relatively quiet regarding the project until recently. The British motorcycle manufacturer has been easing their way closer to their project completion …
IXS Has A New Modular Helmet On The Way
Another Season, Another Modular Helmet For those of us who have been frozen into our houses through the entirety of winter, it’s finally time for spring to make it’s way back into our lives; and with that, bring a season full of excellent motorcycle riding. During this grey-zone between the end of winter and the …
Alpinestars Tech-Air 5 Airbag Vest Gets Updates for 2021
A really nice safety feature to have when traveling by car is obviously the fact that you have airbags surrounding yourself to keep you protected in the event of a crash. Unfortunately for us with taste best suited to wind and speed, that key feature has been missing until recent years, and even then it …
Zero Motorcycles Joins EV Collaborative Effort With Viatec
Zero’s EV R&D Brings All The Boys To The Yard “I could teach you, but I’d have to charge”. Zero is on a roll with the sheer volume of collaboration efforts they have involved themselves in as of late. I guess that when you have the best EV bike on the market, other OEM’s will …
AGV’s Stunning New Limited-Edition Pista GP RR Helmet
A Special Helmet For A Special Riders Special Eta AGV has always had some awesome (and special) Valentino Rossi helmet liveries available to choose from when buying a new lid. The madman has been associated with the brand for as long as I can remember. Like all things Italian go, it only makes sense for …
Top Mountain Motorcycle Museum To Reopen Winter 2021 After Burning To Ground
A Firey Resurrection The road to any recovery is never easy, and more often than not it takes longer than you would want. Fortunately for the Top Mountain Motorcycle Museum that won’t be the case. After completely burning to the ground and losing over 280 motorcycles on the 18th of January, 2021, the Scheiber brothers …
Indian Motorcycle Racing Dominates AFT Season Opener With Back-To-Back Wins
2012 Called, They Want Their “WINNING!” Back Indians’ Flat Track Motorcycle Racing division is no stranger to utter domination when it comes to the American Flat Track racing series. The heritage American motorcycle company extends its successes into the 2021 Americal Flat Track SuperTwins racing series with a proper first step into the season, securing …
Could Energica Succeed In Developing A Voice Control System?
Alexa, Park My Motorcycle No, I don’t mean the voice control you may be thinking of… This new motorcycle voice control system that Energica is currently in the works of developing, unfortunately, does not turn your handlebars or pop a wheelie when you verbally command it to; but at the same time, it is still …
Yamaha R7 Found In 2022 CARB Certification Files
The R7 May Be Next In Line We knew it was coming with the chatter that was coming from the industry back in Q4 2020 after the R6 was deleted from the 2021 Yamaha model lineup, but we now have some ‘circumstantial evidence’ pointing towards the fact that things are quickly moving forwards with the …
Qatar Government Offers Vaccine to MotoGP Paddock
Free Vaccination for The Entire Track The Barwa Grand Prix of Qatar – located at the Losail International Circuit 30km away from the capital, is a big event on the MotoGP calendar. It’s the first race of the season, meaning that it sets the tone and pace for the rest of the races for the …
Deals We Love This Week: Up to 20% Off SIDI Boots
Some of the Best Boots in the Biz SIDI boots are often quite good, and if you get a chance to buy some at a discounted price, you should probably seriously consider them. The company’s motorcycle footwear is no joke. Right now Revzilla is offering up to 20 percent off various pairs of SIDI boots. …
This ‘Fastest Quarter-Mile Wheelie’ Is An Official Record – The Bajaj Pulsar NS 200 Now Holds It
A Quarter-Mile Wheelie In Under 25 Seconds Who said you need high power-figures to pop a bad-ass wheelie? Apparently, you don’t, because a stunt rider named Hrishi Mandke just broke the world record for the fastest quarter-mile wheelie on a little Bajaj Pulsar NS 200. The kicker? It was stock. Of course, it was stock. …
Ducati’s Scrambler To Come In Fasthouse Edition
The Winning Circle Fasthouse and Italian manufacturer, Ducati, are collaborating on a 2021 Ducati Scrambler to celebrate their success in the 2020 Mint 400. The Mint 400 is a 400-mile race through the Mojave Desert, featuring many dangerous sections of riding terrain. Jordan Graham crossed the finish line in first place on his Fasthouse retrofitted …
The Yamaha YZF-R7 Will Be Making a Comeback!
According to the filings made to California Air Resources Board (CARB) that were uncovered, Yamaha will be resurrecting the YZF-R7 for an upcoming 2022 bike model. However, the name will be the only thing in common with that of the notorious 1999 YZF-R7. The YZF-R7 was first released in 1999 as an ‘out of the …
Muc-Off’s New Anti-Corrosion Spray Keeps Your Bike Safe And Clean
Muck-Be-Gone Have you ever bought a new pair of shoes and the clerk checking you out tries to upsell you on some special spray that makes your shoes water/dirt-resistant? What if I told you that Muc-Off has something similar for your motorcycle? Although dirt can be annoying to get on your shoes, what is even …
Britain’s National Motorcycle Museum Will Reopen In May
Are We Ready To Open? NMM Is. After joining the rest of the world and closing its door thanks to everything going on with COVID-19, the British National Motorcycle Museum is slated to officially re-open at minimum capacity come May 17th of this year. Closing your business’s doors for a year doesn’t do your company …
