If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it… but for bike manufacturers, doing nothing is a luxury they can’t indulge in, even when it comes to a machine as towering – metaphorically as well as physically – as BMW’s seminal R1200GS.
Just two years after the mad Hypermotard 1100 wheelied down its first high street, Ducati has given it an all-new engine and jettisoned an amazing 7kg!
When former Ducati designer Pierre Terblanche came up with the Hypermotard, he always visualised it first as having one of the Bologna factory’s smaller air-cooled engines, around the 750cc level.
Kawasaki rather coyly says the 1700 Voyager‘s styling is inspired by 1960s sports cars... Well that’s one way of avoiding a mention of the Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Ultra, but few people will be fooled.
The world’s biggest production motorcycle, Triumph’s Rocket 3, has sold reasonably well for an expensive machine but it’s not been the roaring success Triumph was hoping for.
* Recall Hysteria Inflates BMW Brake Issue
The media finds new fodder for its recall feeding frenzy, and even better, it's got the word 'brakes' in it! We're all going to die because fluid might weep out of a few BMW banjo connectors.
* Neil Hodgson Retires
Shoulder injury puts paid to the former WSB and BSB champion's career.
* Ferrari Still Wants Rossi
...and the Maranello team is trying to change the rules to help snare him!
* Harley To Be Taken Over?
The US stock market is buzzing with rumours of a leveraged buyout of the troubled US bike maker.
