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Plan your year around MotoGP, World Superbikes SBK, British Superbikes BSB, Isle of Man TT and North West 200 road races with the help of the BeMoto 2024 Motorcycle Race Calendar (all in one place)...
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Yamaha have released details of their retro-GP styled sportster, paying tribute to their racing heritage with the Grand Prix inspired ‘Legend Red’ colour scheme to brighten up these winter evenings…
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It’s mad to think that Yamaha’s nutter 600, the YZF-R6 is knocking on 25 years old. And to celebrate, we’re taking you through every major upgrade it’s had, from the original in 5EB (1999) through to today's BN6 (2017)...
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The 2024 KTM EXC and EXC-F models have broken cover and the Austrians say these Enduro bikes are 95% new. Current ACU Over 50 British MX Champion and BeMoto customer, Sean Smith, went to Southern Africa to test them out...
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BeMoto Dirt Bike Insurance gets up close with the GSXR powered CR1000 - Possibly the world’s craziest two-stroke custom hill climber built by Team LCH!
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The decathlete of motorcycling didn’t exactly hop, skip and jump out of the showrooms, but there aren’t many do-it-all bikes as good as this (when new). Yamaha were ahead of their time, which is why KTM are copying it now with their new SM T.
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In 2010 the word on the street was that Maico – the former German powerhouse of the 70’s and 80’s – were to make a comeback to the MX mainstream with a 700cc two-stroke…
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What’s in a name? When it comes to ‘R7’, quite a lot, actually. Should Yamaha have dusted off the famous moniker for its new, parallel-twin powered pretender? Well, there’s only one way to find out…
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Yamaha’s almost indestructible PW50 ‘PeeWee’ is a bike responsible for starting the riding lives of so many children in a cloud of two-stroke haze. This week Scottie takes a look at a minter…
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Plan your year around the motorcycle racing calendars for MotoGP, World Superbikes SBK, British Superbike BSB, Isle of Man TT and MXGP Motocross World Championship
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We take a long, hard, dirt-encrusted look at the bikes that have helped shape MX for the better.
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BeMoto motorcycle insurance looks at the all-new top of the range motorbike helmet from Shoei, designed for high-speed performance riding and used by arguably the very best rider on the planet.
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The triple-cylinder two-stroke of the seventies was a rocketship with all the steering ability of one. A classic in every respect, it inspired the supercharged H2 that we know today. Bike World swung a leg over one in this video.
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Pick and pre-mix: When a GSX-R400 and a legendary Yamaha two-stroke make a baby…
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We insure some amazing multibike garages here at BeMoto, but when we finished sorting out cover for the 13-strong collection from Demented Classics’ Matt Bird, we asked him very nicely if we could take a look at these incredible bikes in the flesh.
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Pepsi: The choice of a new generation? The Pepsi challenge is you’ll need £20k for this tasty GP500 replica RG500
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This week we are looking at the auction of an actual 500 Grand Prix two-stroke. Well, one that has been cut in half…
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Barn Find Forever? BFF?! Is that even a thing?? This week, Scottie is watching something he has no intention of buying but is just marvelled by the asking price for what it is…
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What’s that noise a ring-a-dinging? Not quite a two-stroke but the Ebay notification bell to let us know that time is ticking down on this piece of naughty as new nostalgia. Scottie Redmond explains why he’s watching this LC…
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Yamaha DT125Rs were built as proper motorcycles with quality parts and sized for fully grown adults. Easy to work on and parts still easily available, which all adds up to making it an attractive inner city 125 - especially this example that sports an electric start! All you need is some modern road-biased tyres and a bottle of two-stroke oil.
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Yamaha didn't wait very long for Valentino Rossi to hang up his racing gloves before dropping this tasty R1 GYTR VR46 Tribute on us.
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Yamaha R6: Two new track only bikes for 2022. R6 Race and R6 GYTR introduced
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The Yamaha VMAX cruiser brought 8 years of joy for bikers that experienced the tarmac strangling torque horse. Our Future Classics series is blessed by this steed that was a contrast to the "original" 1985 VMX1200. Find out why...
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Now over 20 years old, this beauty is officially a Classic… Designed to compete in the Superbike World Championships and 8 hour endurance races, we let Kar Lee loose at Rockingham Circuit to blow some cobwebs off our R7…
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There are a few names which have carved out a proper niche in the bike world. Kawasaki’s Ninja, Honda’s Fireblade, BMW’s GS – they’ve all become legendary marques, standing for top performance in their respective areas. Yamaha’s Ténéré is another one of these renowned monikers.
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BeMoto customer Chris Eades, of 44Teeth or Baron von Grumble as you most likely know him, gets to ride every bike you could ever dream of! But what does he own in his collection? Find out here...
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Most of us know what kind of engine we have in our bikes – the different characters of a single, twin, triple or four (or more!) cylinder motor are much more obvious than they might be in a car. But what’s best? Which motors are great and which suck...
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Welding – dull industrial process or pure metal art? We have a look at the tech and science behind properly joining up bits of metal – and see how it’s applied to make an exhaust can for our Yamaha MT-10...
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MotoE has just finished its first season of racing as a MotoGP support series. Our man Alan Dowds got a spin on a MotoE Ego Corsa Electric Race Bike at Valencia – here’s what he reckoned…
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Motocross is without doubt the most easily accessible discipline for someone interest in getting started in motorsport. It can be daunting trying to decide which bike is the best for you - but never fear, here's our 'go-to' list of MX bikes that are perfect for rookies to the sport…
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Customer CR500 Supermoto Special. Those two letters and three numbers are enough to scare most riders who have dared to tackle the big-bore, single-cylinder two-dinger. Starting one is difficult, holding one wide-open is insanity...
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We love riding (almost!) all bikes, (almost!) all the time. But an artificially-strangled small-bore engine is always going to put a bit of a dampener on proceedings. Would that be the case with this new 2019 Yamaha YZF-R125?
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Back in 1992, £38,000 was a hell of a lot of money – in fact it was just £12,000 shy of buying your average house. What £38k could also get you is Honda’s technical and aesthetical marvel, the NR750...
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Launched four years ago on the crest of Yamaha's new wave of sweet roadsters, the MT-07 was, on the face of it, a middle-of-the-road budget naked, with decent specs on paper and attractive styling. The script has turned out slightly different though...
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In April 2016 we imagined what a street H2R could look like. The response was incredible and the feedback unanimous... "Get rid of that ugly exhaust"! Well we listened and new for 2017, this virtual supercharged H2 CGI gets a Kardesign update...
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Sitting neatly between the racetrack refugee and the more spacious road-friendly original, our R1 features all the technological treats of the latest bike but re-packages them in a chassis that works on the road too...
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It’s being reported online that Honda could be looking to offer up another V4-flavoured superbike option by 2018 to mark the firm’s 70th anniversary. Patents filed by Honda late last year suggest a more budget-orientated version of the £138,000 road-going racebike may be on the cards...
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BMW Motorrad have given race bike lovers a teaser at the 2016 EICMA. Nobody knows how close this prototype will be to the final version, however the HP4 RACE will feature the full carbon fibre main frame and rims...
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The Superleggera is the first factory motorbike with a carbon fibre frame, swingarm, subframe and wheels - with an electronics package NASA could only dream of when Neil Armstrong faked the moon landing...
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Following the launch of the new YZF-R6, Yamaha have followed up with a new ' race-ready' middleweight Supersport bike at the 2016 EICMA International Motorcycle Exhibition in Milan.
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The R6 has been immensely successful for Yamaha as a highly capable road bike, and for many, it's unrivalled as a Supersport & Superstock race bike. Available in April 2017, the new 2017 YZF-R6 brings the model bang up-to-date with styling based on the current R1...
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It’s not everyday that you come across a Ducati Desmosedici, let alone one with the extremely rare and expensive GP7 kit. Vince Hosking, a keen follower of the BeMoto Facebook Page, got in touch with us asking if we could provide a quote to insure his - how could we refuse!
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Russ Gardner was the lucky winner of the BeMoto and Team 6T9 ‘Win a Legendary Day’ Competition. Russ met up with GP Legend Freddie Spencer (Fast Freddie) at the amazing 2016 World GP Bike Legends event at Silverstone Classics. See what he had to say...
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Yamaha has been setting a new standard with the MT series over recent years and now they have a new flagship model.. The shit-hot (many say butt-ugly) hyper-naked MT-10. One of the BeMoto team borrowed one for a test ride, here's what they had to say about it...
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Suzuki revealed their much-anticipated update to the GSX-R1000 last year in the form of a ‘concept’ and although we love it, we suspect that in a parallel world there’s already an edgier, more MotoGP version in existence…
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Turkish custom bike builders ‘Bunker Customs’, based in Istanbul and run by brothers Can and Mert Uzer have created something eye catching and practical with this 80’s tracker style XSR700...
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There’s a new Fireblade coming. Will it look anything like our exclusive CGI? Fingers crossed for a single-sided swingarm, sleek RC8-esque faired-in exhaust system and some drilled holes for old times’ sake...
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Over the years there have been a number of engine configurations of 250cc to 500cc sportsbikes, powered by both two-stroke and four-stroke engines. The two-stroke 250cc Sportbikes were always powered by twin cylinder engines and all four-stroke incarnations were originally in-line 4 cylinder screamers...
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A highly strung two-stroke makes very little power in the lower rev range with pick up often being very slow, however as soon as the revs of the engine hit the 'powerband' power comes in with quite a kick...
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The 750cc Sportsbike can be traced back to 1969 when Honda introduced the CB750; it was a revolution, featuring an in-line four-cylinder four-stroke engine producing a claimed 67bhp and capable of hitting a top speed of around 120mph...
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Yeah, yeah, we know what the grown-ups say. Wheelies: they're not big and they're not clever. Anyway. Done properly (on a closed road or track naturally), wheelies are a very fine test of a bike's performance...
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If we're getting a supercharged Kawasaki H2R Supersports bike, let's imagine what a street version could look like too. Originally created for Rapid Bikes magazine, this virtual supercharged H2 CGI gets a BeMoto update...
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Back in the 90s and 00s, it wasn't unusual to see motors being updated every couple of years. So it's a sign of just how good Yamaha made the original FJ1100 motor back in 1984, that it's still going strong today, in the naked XJR1300. That's more than 32 years with essentially the same layout...
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The 1990s was a cracking decade for superbikes. We got Ducati's 916, Honda's FireBlade and NR750, Suzuki's GSX-R750 and Hayabusa, and Yamaha's R1 and R6. Stonking sportsbikes all! But we also got some classic metal in the lower classes too...
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How far back in history would I have to time travel to win a GP on my GSXR Fireblade ZXS1000RR? Jerez in Spain is the best circuit to answer the question as the layout hasn't changed since its Grand Prix debut in 1987...
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Despite a relatively short-lived four year production run the Suzuki Katana had well and truly left its mark (the styling cues can still be seen on some of today’s line-up) and has even been resurrected many times in limited numbers. We think that somewhere out there, Suzuki are still building them and they might just look like this...
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In a market dominated by the four-stroke motor, it’s easy to forget that big strokers once roamed the roads, leaving beautiful plumes of smoke in their wake. Originally created for Performance Bikes magazine, this virtual RD500 CGI gets a BeMoto update for 2016...
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Soichiro Honda himself declared it the perfect engine for powering a motorbike (he hated two-strokes and famously compared the engine to a bamboo rod with holes in). But the reason the V4 came to be Honda’s favoured engine has a more practical origin...
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The companies’ founder, life-long petrol head and engineer Soichiro Honda, launched the first proper Honda motorcycle, the D-Type (Dream) 2-stroke 98cc in 1949. The company has consistently been the largest manufacturer of motorcycles since the ‘60s...
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Torakusu Yamaha, was born in 1851 in Nagasaki, Japan. Having studied engineering, he eventually turned his skills to making musical instruments. This required many hours of fine-tuning, hence the three tuning forks in the Yamaha logo...
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