The New Rock & Roll

In case any previous videos hadn't persuaded you of the fact, here's a new video starring US stunt star Bill Dixon, proving just how cool drifting a motorcycle is...

It also proves a point to those people who say a bike with a long swinging arm doesn't handle...

Streetfighters #218

Now winging its way to subscribers via the tireless Streetfighters carrier pigeons, and shortly to be found on shelf in your local newsagents (next Thursday, the 1st March, to be precise), Streetfighters #218 is our most recent magazine-shaped cake yet!

The first thing in the mixing bowl is our main ingredient; six pages of Dean’s GSX-R 1000 K8, an exercise in reinventing the sports bike as an immaculate, extremely high performance naked roadgoer. Then we add half a fluid ounce of coverage from the French Monsters Race series, one generous scoop of Irish GIA-framed GSX-R, half an organic free range turbocharged Z1R (beaten with a whisk before adding), three liberal pinches of Dazz’s turbocharged competition wheelie bike, and finally Rob Bean’s Spondon GSX-R race bike is folded in until the consistency of old leather shoes is achieved.

Once risen and golden brown across the top, we glaze with a liberal brushing of KTM 690 Duke roadtesting, dust with coverage from the Ace Café USA event and garnish with a mint Italian TVR250 supermotard. Then we serve with the usual fattening, but wholesome selection of creamy news, custardy products, reviews, fresh opinions, preserved apologies and any vaguely gastronomical cake-like wankery that we think is good.

Streetfighters – it’s not a fairy cake. Right?

Back To The Future - Icon style

More tomfoolery frmo the Icon Limiter blog at iconmotosports.net

SF 217 - out imminently

Subscribers will be getting their copies of Streetfighters #217 around about now.

This month’s cover bike is Spart’s awesome turbocharged Hayabusa, presented with our gloriously butt naked model, Paige. Elsewhere in the mag we bring you a beautifully finished Irish GSX-R, the fantastic RSD KTM 525 café racer ‘Katosh’, an awesome flamed-up Hungarian Katana 750, a 140bhp GSX1400 by DSD and many more.

There’s events coverage from EICMA Milan 2012 and the Rat’s Hole Show in Daytona, ACU drag racing, project bike updates and all the usual news, products, reviews, opinions, fanmail letters, small ads and weird, inexplicable stains that make it smell so good.

If you’re not a subscriber you’ll have to wait another entire week to get yours from the shop. SF #217 hits the shelves on Thursday 2nd February. Get a subscription here: http://www.streetfightersmag.com/subscribe

Wallpaper

Following their superb Drift 2 video, as we showed you recently, Icon have realeased a number of images taken from the video for you to use as wallpaper on your 'puter screen.
If these pics don't make you want to learn how to drift, then you're already dead.
The pics, and plenty more, are available at ride-icon.com

2012 KTM Duke 690

One half of the Streetfighters Editorial team (the better looking half, or so his mum says) is off to Spain on Sunday night, as a guest (or adoptee) of KTM Motorcycles.

They're launching the 2012 Duke 690, the fourth major incarnation of the Austrian factory's iconic hooligan thumper. Our fearless (feckless?) journalist will test this bike to its absolute limits in order to bring you the most comprehensive roadtest around, before retiring to the hotel to test KTM's bar tab to the absolute limits and, eventually, to puke on his own feet and fall asleep.

This is KTM's own film of the new Duke 690. Make sure you check out SF #218 (on the shelf at the beginning of March) for the full roadtest feature.

Our Favourite Monster

Yup, as we ascertained a few weeks ago, Monster Energy drinks are definitely our favourite...

Got Your Bearings?

Here's a handy link for those of you who're planning a front end swap.
You can check your bearing sizes, and thus work out either what bearing you need to purchase, or whether a swap will be a direct swap or not (as long as the stem is the right length, of course) by checking the list here

Pure Awesomeness

We showed you a teaser for this video a few weeks ago, and now Icon have released the completed vid, featuring Ernie Vigil and Nick 'Apex' Brocha. We need say no more, but for watch it on full screen, with the volume up loud!

Nitro Circus

You've probably already seen this clip, as it's plastered all over Facebook etc, but it's worth another watch anyway...

It's going to be fantastic on the big screen!

It's Not The Size...

... it's what you do with it. As these pics prove.

Cappucino?

It was a while ago when we featured these two cafe racers, as built by one Roland Sands. But, seeing as we'll be featuring another bike built by Roland in the next issue, we'd thought we'd show you this wee video...

SF216

Okay, so Streetfighters issue 216 is, at this very moment, being electronically transferred over to the printers, and will be printed and out to subscribers shortly after Christmas.
So, on that note, we're off to the pub...


Oh, in case you wanted to know, the new issue has feature's on Yantosh's twin turbo GSX-R, a single-sided tuned XJR, a minimalist FireBlade, a spud-munching Gixer, a sweet GSX1400, a rad RZR350, a lightweight FZR Thou, a subtle Triumph, a very trick Blade and all the latest news and updates, plus a report from the NEC 'Motorcycle Live' show last November...

Happy Chrimbo y'all.
Love & peace.

The Full Build

Every so often, we'll be posting links here on our blog relating to build threads of feature bikes that we've featured.
We're starting with the bargain basement Bandit turbo as featured in the current issue - SF215 Jon's turbo Bandit clicky-clicky

Late Chrissie Prezzie?

Here's an idea - meat 'duster

Monster Girls!

We like Monster energy drinks.
Not especially because they taste nice, nor that they help us stay awake when heading home from events like Fighterama and Motorcycle Live.
No, we like them because they sponsor the things, and people, that we like, and that they organise things like this...

This is the Monster Girl line-up for 2012 - the selection of lithesome lovelies that'll be promoting the brand at events across Europe throughout the next year. Wonderful ain't it?
Events covering diverse extreme spoerts such as MotoGP, Superbikes, supermoto, MTB, BMX, surf, snow, skate, WRC, snowmobiles, SX, insane distance jumping, MX, off-road, trials and FMX - you'll be seeing the Monster girls at them all. How did they find such stunning totty?

Fired Up!

Remember Cabbie's Kwikasfaki? From the cover of issue 213?
Well, just for the naysayers that we overheard at the NEC, here's a wee video from when Cabbie first got the stunning little triple fired up and rolling...

SF215

Hot on the heels of the 2011 13th issue, 'Past, Present & Future' is issue number 215 of the regular magazine.

With a report from the tenth anniversary Fighterama bash in Kalkar, a radical two-stroke triple, a bargain basement turbo Bandit, a mini Moriwaki-rep Zed plus heavily-modified examples of Kawasaki's ZX-10R, a Honda CB900, an Aprilia Futura, an R1, a quad and stacks more, it's in newsagents right now! (And if it ain't, ask them why not!)

Triple Treat

The guys at Icon are teasing us again! This time it's with an all-too-brief video clip featuring Ernie Vigil and Nick Apex aboard a pair of Triumph Speed Triples...

Okay, so this vid is rather short, but we're promised that there'll be a longer one along soon.

In the meantime, check out the regular updates on the Icon blog here

13th Issue on sale now!

The Streetfighters Special Edition 13th Issue 2011 is a detailed guide through the world of streetfighters past, present and future, from the original 1950s café racers through ‘classic’ streetfighters, to the present day with stunter street rides, the awesome French Monsters Race series and an interview with the man who designed the T509 Speed Triple, and then into the future with the lowdown on high performance electric bikes, futuristic concepts and even a functional Light Cycle. This Special Edition is priced at £6.99 and is worth every single penny… even if we do say so ourselves. Go get one bought!