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Qianjiang Patents a V-Twin Engine That's Secretly a Single
It looks like a V-twin, it's cast like a V-twin, and only half of it actually fires. Qianjiang's newly published US patent is a cheap trick for a smooth single -- and Ducati tried the same thing in 1993.
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TVS Just Outsold Hero and Honda in India for the First Time, and I'm Already Pricing a Container to Europe
TVS just had its best month ever, and for the first time it's bigger than both Hero and Honda in India -- by a margin thin enough that I wouldn't bet on it lasting.
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Red Bull Romaniacs Explained: The Classes, the Format, and How to Actually Follow It
Atom, Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold -- and now three flavours of Adventure class. Here's how Europe's toughest hard enduro rally actually works, and how to watch a grown man haul a motorcycle up a mountain by hand.
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KTM's 490 Duke Just Got Caught Testing, and It's Wearing the 390's Headlight Like a Bad Disguise
KTM's finally building the naked bike that fits between the 390 and 790 Duke -- a new parallel-twin, spied wearing someone else's headlight.
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Yamaha's New YZF-R2 Undercuts Everything in the Segment, and I'm Doing Beginner-Bike Math Again
Yamaha's cheapest ticket into the R-Series just landed in India -- 204cc, 26.5 PS, and a kerb weight light enough to make my own bike jealous.
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Honda Officially Reveals the CB1000F, and It's Wearing Freddie Spencer's Racing Stripes
The neo-retro naked that debuted as a Suzuka 8 Hours concept is now a production bike -- 122hp, Showa suspension, and a paint scheme that name-checks 1980s AMA Superbike history.
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Bajaj's First Adventure Bike Got Spied Again, and It Has a TFT Dash Now
Spy shots catch Bajaj's first-ever ADV prototype with a TFT dash borrowed from the Pulsar N160 SS and a retuned 249cc engine -- and I'm already comparing it to my own Pulsar.
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KTM Expands the Husqvarna/GasGas Brake Recall to Off-Road Bikes, Says Stop Riding Now
21,040 US units and 4,140 in Canada -- the same cracking brake caliper as August's dual-sport recall, but bigger, broader, and with a stop-riding order this time.
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