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Loris Baz gets Kawasaki Superbike ride?

16 April, 2020

It has yet to be officially confirmed but it looks like Loris Baz will be riding for Kawasaki’s World Superbike team in this weekend fifth round of the season at Donington Park.The highly popular French rider will be replacing injured…

Superstock classes to be dropped in 2014 to make room for a 250cc series?

16 April, 2020

Last month the FIM held a meeting in their headquarters in Geneva with Dorna, Infront and 23 teams and 5 manufacturers involved in the FIM Superbike World Championship. In the sanitized press statement very little was revealed of what was…

Carlos Checa answers five questions

16 April, 2020

Carlos Checa left round one of the World Superbike championship at Phillip Island with a win and a DNF following a horrific highside in race 1 that would have sapped another rider not only physically, but also his confidence, but…

More rider quotes from MotoGP Estoril

16 April, 2020

We’ve got another batch of rider quotes following today’s third race of the MotoGP season at the Autodromo Fernando Pires da Silva at Estoril.Andrea Dovizioso - 4th “I am very satisfied with my performance in today’s race and particularly with…

Video: How to promote 2012 championship motorcycle racing on Eurosport

16 April, 2020

Heart and Soul of Motorbikes from Taro Russell on Vimeo.How does your country promote motorcycle racing? In Italy despite some decent audience numbers, promos for MotoGP on Italia 1 and World Superbikes on the LA7 are pretty boring and really…

Valentino Rossi on the Ducati GP12 – video and pics

16 April, 2020

Wow! We certainly didn’t expect that Ducati would reveal photos and a video with sound of the GP12 and Valentino Rossi in action to the watchful eyes of competitors and fans when they tested today at Jerez, but they did…

Paddock , Brolly and Grid Girls from Sachsenring

16 April, 2020

We’ve left the best for last from the racing weekend at Sachsenring. Paddock, brolly and grid girls here’s a choice gallery of pics that you can look at and enjoy.Imagine Marco Simoncelli explaining to his girlfriend that his sponsor ordered…

Julien Dupont tries out new KTM Freeride E

16 April, 2020

French urban trial and freestyle legend Julien Dupont has been showing us many jaw-dropping stunts throughout the years, and he is quite a popular character among extreme motorsports enthusiast around the world. This time time around he decided to give…

WSBK Silverstone: Cal Crutchlow Wins Race 2 and Leads Another All Brit Podium

16 April, 2020

Race 2 at Silverstone was almost another photocopy of race 1 with Sterilgarda Yamaha’s Cal Crutchlow and Hannspree Ten Kate Honda’s Jonathan Rea pulling away from the rest of the field making it a two man race. Crutchlow attempted his…

Give yourself a present: Cagiva 500 ex Kocinski on sale

16 April, 2020

If you’ve got a spare few thousand euro lying around or have just won the lottery and want to give yourself a present, you’ve come to the right place. Our reader Paperopoli has sent through this news from Classic Motorbikes…

13 million euro stolen from the Ministery of State Schooling

16 April, 2020

You may have thought that the mafia culture in Italy was a thing of the past, or something mythologized in America through films such as the Godfather, or more recently the television series The Sopranos. But the Calabrian version of…

New airport in Italy: fly to the Amalfi Coast and Salerno with Costa d'Amalfi airport

16 April, 2020

If you were wondering how to skip the long drive down Italy’s peninsula, a new flight route in Campania has been created, going to Costa d’Amalfi a Salerno-Pontecagnano. It will be inaugurated on July 31 by Italy’s president, Giorgio Napolitano,…

Ferrari 599XX Evo auctioned to raise funds for earthquakes victims

16 April, 2020

A rare million Euros Ferrari 599XX Evolution is the most valuable piece up for grabs at the ferraristore.com auction. Starting next week Ferrari will launch a big online auction to raise money for the victims of the recent earthquakes that…

John Hopkins confirmed and ready to ride for Crescent Suzuki

16 April, 2020

The news was in the air for the last couple of weeks, that John Hopkins would be racing for Crescent Suzuki in the British Superbikes Championship, the only thing missing was the signature on the contract that the deal was…

Luxury Italian Villa up for sale in the Olgiata district, Rome

16 April, 2020

Situated in the Olgiata district (one of Rome’s most exclusive and fashionable areas), this luxury Italian villa surrounded by a huge park can be yours for only 3 million euros. As you can see from our pics the 575 square…

Akrapovic exhibition

16 April, 2020

Celebrating 20 years of business this year is Akrapovic exhausts and to mark the event they’re having an exhibition of some of their contributions to racing motorcycles over the years. The exhibition is in Slovenia and we could think of…

Italian folk festivals: The Palio of stilts at Schieti di Urbino

16 April, 2020

There’s no better way to observe a Marchigian river (the Folgia, to be precise) than from atop a pair of stilts, at least if you are a charcoal-burner by trade and you are in a rush to leave behind Schieti…

Video: Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez in action at Sepang

16 April, 2020

Last year Repsol Honda showed us some onboard footage from Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner after the first Sepang test and this year is no different, only replace Stoner with MotoGP’s hottest rookie Marc Marquez, leave out the interviews, and…

More from the Motocross dei Campioni (w/videos)

16 April, 2020

We’ve got a couple more videos from the Motocross dei Campioni, 30 Years Later event. The one above is the most interesting because it’s a sort of backstage and Gianluca Alessandrini who made it, bled out all the colour and…

Daniel Pedrosa fastest on final day of testing at Valencia

16 April, 2020

While Yamaha had headed to Aragon to find some sun, the rest of the teams stayed in Valencia for the second and final day of testing at the Ricardo Tormo circuit.While the weather conditions at Valencia were again mixed, first…

Ducati: sales record continues in 2008

16 April, 2020

Again good news for the Ducati factory. After the news about the Monster 696 (the most sold bike in Italy in June) Ducati North Europe is announcing a new sales record. They sold 103 models in August, witch is a…

2009 Triumph Daytona 675 onboard video

16 April, 2020

This should give some adrenalin to Friday: an onboard video from the Triumph Daytona 675 2009, from Tor Sagen at Raptors&Rockets.The video was comes from the official press presentation at Cartagena and gives you a great idea of what a…

Max Biaggi is 2010 WSBK champion

16 April, 2020

The title of this post suggests that today’s race and the subsequent championship result for 2010 is simpler than it seems. Firstly, Carlos Checa continued his excellent form this weekend, winning Race 2 after a victory in Race 1 as…

New Ducati 1199 XTreme: leaked pic

16 April, 2020

What is it with Ducati names of late? After playing around with the dialect of Bologna to produce the Ducati Diavel (which we’re sure makes the baby boomers it’s aimed at feel all devilish….), we’re now apparently getting the Ducati…

Torre del Mangia: a postcard from Siena

16 April, 2020

To be truthful I couldn’t make any sense out of the subject of this picture. At first I thought it was just one of those jokes one usually come across surfing the net or the plan of some building, then…