Hey guys, happy Cinco de Mayo, Jon here again. Check out Japanese magazine Young Machine’s claim that Honda is developing a new CBR400R to sit between the CBR600RR and CBR250R in the firm’s sportsbike line-up.

The bike on the cover is actually an artist’s interpretation. The main image is the Japanese-market Megelli 250R. The CBR400R is rumored to have a parallel twin engine derived from the same family as the CBR250R’s single.

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Hey what’s going on guys? XCOR recently integrated bearing components from its rocket propellant piston pump into a Triumph Street Triple in order to perform wear testing. Check it out.

XCOR, whose Lynx spaceship is set to take flight in 2014, decided to test the parts for its rocket propellant pump in a slightly unusual way: by fitting them into a Triumph motorcycle and driving it down Route 66.

When the team was preparing to test its bearing system, it found that running a motorcycle was far less expensive than using a test stand, which can cost $500 a minute to run.

The Triumph Street Triple turned out to have the same cylinder arrangement and almost the same horsepower as the liquid oxygen and kerosene fuel pumps in the Lynx, so the team was able to collect twenty hours of data — or enough to replicate the rocket use on 400 Lynx flights — simply by driving from Roswell to Mojave.

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Hi guys. Meet the 2012 KTM/HMC Superbike Racing Team including Team Manager Mitch Hansen and riders Chris Fillmore and Stefan Nebel as they turn laps at Homestead-Miami.

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What’s up people? Late last year, the werewolf from Twilight struck out and attempted a career as an actin star in Abduction. Taylor Lautner starred as a young man unwittingly thrust into a deadly world of covert espionage in Lionsgate’s action-thriller directed by John Singleton.

Not sold, huh? Don’t blame you. But take another look at the trailer. Taylor rides around in an Aprilia Shiver 750. Check it out.

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Hey guys, Jon here again. Check out the latest video released by Yamaha of the 2012 Yamaha R1.

In a perfect world, all gas stations would have Umbrella Girls!

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