When you’ve got a car that weighs slightly more than a pocketful of lint, you don’t need big power to get it moving in a hurry.

Try telling that to the lovable (but slightly bonkers) Germans at MTM.

They’ve gone and strapped a turbocharger to the KTM X-Bow’s VW-sourced 2.o litre four pot, slapped a new tune [...]

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Here’s a weird one.  It seems that while covering a book launch in London’s Oxford Street (slow news day?), a CNN reporter and camera crew bore witness to a quartet of jewellery thieves as they made their getaway on the back of a pair of stealthy black motorcycles.

The thieves used a sledgehammer to smash the [...]

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Austrian trail bike maker KTM recently unveiled its new 690 Enduro R for 2009, building on the range of LC4-powered bikes.

Based on the 690 Enduro, the hopped up Enduro R brings to the table longer travel suspension, a more aggressively shaped front fender, a pair of Pirelli MT 21s chunky tyres, a smaller, less obtrusive [...]

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