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Revitalized sports tourer joined by new look of The Beast   Cologne, Germany October 2, 2018   At the INTERMOT show, Cologne, Germany, KTM unveiled a sharper, stronger and more refined version of its premium sports tourer, the KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE GT, for the 2019 riding season while the ‘THE BEAST’ KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE R receives two new graphics options.   KTM 1290 SUPER DUKE GT   The most radical long-distance sports tourer on the market takes the best from ‘The Beast’; the...

January 9, 2018 was the most shocking moment of the 4 stages when Sam Sunderland was announced OUT of the Dakar 2018.   After leading 2 out of 4 stages, the British Champion unfortunately hit a big hole and hurt his back while searching for a control point in Peru’s Ica desert.     Nevertheless, according to the Motorcycles News Website, Sam continued on riding for an additional five kilometers, before feeling a sharp and unbearable pain in his back and numbness in his legs. The KTM...

Georges Soueidi reviews the all new KTM Motegi street leather jacket:     You can also check out the latest offers on all KTM bikes here! For more information about the jacket and all KTM bikes call: 01-888-298

PRESS RELEASE   THE PIAGGIO  GROUP  AND (RED) TOGETHER IN THE BATTLE  AGAINST AIDS (VESPA)REDDRESSES IN RED TO SUPPORT THE GLOBAL  FUND ROBERTO COLANINNO: “COLLABORATION BETWEEN TWO OUTSTANDING GLOBAL ORGANISATIONS”   Rome, 27 June 2016 - The Piaggio Group and (RED) announce  the start of a partnership  in support of raising funds to finance programmes that battle against AIDS. Attending the event that launched collaboration between Piaggio and (RED) was also Bill Gates who, with the...

Where to start?! The funniest thing is the amount of questions I asked myself prior to discovering the 2017 KTM EXC line up: Did something change? How about the grip? What’s the difference between the 2016 and 2017 Enduro range? Etc etc… To be explicitly clear enough and to my surprise: The All New KTM EXC line up is a new KTM Enduro World in itself. Simply, you have to go deep in their Enduro DNA, specs and technical body so you could understand how beautiful these new beasts are. To...

Yamaha made it clear that it has a number of riders on mind in case it needed to hire a replacement to Spanish rider Jorge Lorenzo with the end of the 2016 season of the world motorcycles championship "Moto GP". The Italian Valentino Rossi has signed a new extended contract with the Japanese factory for a period of two years till the end of the 2018 season and close to Qatar Grand Prix. Yamaha believes that Lorenzo is serious about Ducati’s offer who is willing to include him to its...

 "MV Agusta is gasping for more fresh air, and that might come from an agreement with Mercedes AMG that would create floorspace in every Mercedes AMG dealership for MV Agusta motorcycles. These will be prestigious “showrooms” within the 127 AMG dealerships around the world, and represent a commitment to closer ties between MV and AMG in terms of marketing coordination. But there is a catch: The AMG dealerships will not actually sell MV Agusta bikes, but will only put them on display under...

The rise in digital innovation in the MENA region has been coupled with a proliferation of new funding institutions in the past 6 years, with the number of investors increasing 5-fold since 2010. In particular, the Levant is home to strong investor communities with 30% of MENA investors located in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine.   ArabNet Beirut 2016 seeks to answer such high demand, by bringing together digital communities from across the Levant and North Africa, on March 1,2 and 3, to...

In collaboration with ANB Motorcycles, the official distributor of KTM and Piaggio Group motorcycles in Lebanon, and Commercial Insurance, Lebanese NGO "Oum El Nour whose mission is to prevent and treat drug addiction, organized an event to raise funds during which a winner had the chance to win a Vespa Primavera scooter.     In an aim to support drug addicts recover, the event saw Elie Ordagi win the keys to a brand new Vespa Primavera, a very modern and comfortable scooter designed with...

 Ducati Motor Holding CEO Claudio Domenicali had every reason to smile while announcing 2015 sales results. For the first time in its history, Ducati manufactured and sold in excess of 50,000 bikes, 54,800 to be precise. By achieving that result, Ducati bested the previous record from 2014 by a cool 9,683 units, a 22-percent increase. As Domenicali underlined in his announcement, the result was largely a result of the great success of the Scrambler that Ducati now defines not just as a...