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Leon Camier to test Crescent Suzuki at Portimao

4 April, 2020
Crescent Suzuki with newly signed Leon Camier will be testing for three days at Portimao starting next Monday. This will be Camier’s first test on the GSX-R1000 in preparation for the team’s World Superbike debut in 2012.Unfortunately John Hopkins will…

Custom AKOO Yamaha R1

4 April, 2020
Presented at the Magic International Trade Show in Las Vegas, this customized Yamaha YZF-R1 is a collaboration between American rapper T.I. AKOO’s clothing brand and custom sportbike designer and builder Rob Uecker of Voodoo Industries.Dubbed the AKOO YZF-R1, the bike…

Loris Capirossi talks about his problems and Ducati

4 April, 2020
That scrappy Loris Capirossi isn’t pleased with his results so far this season is a big understatement and he’s even getting beat by a rookie like Karel Abraham on the same satellite Ducati who has less a racing pedigree than…

2010 Yamaha Super Ténéré first video

4 April, 2020
Here’s the first video of the 2010 Yamaha Super Ténéré, where we get all the technical details as to why this is all about off-road motorcycling. In short, the 2010 Super Ténéré has a twin cylinder engine with uneven firing…

Chinese motorcycles' builders target Europe

4 April, 2020
Loncin, Zongshen and Jialing are the three biggest Chinese motorcycle builders and they will join forces to build a 600cc sports bike for European market. They will directly target Japanese and European motorcycles and prices are expected to be around…

Sicily: the Alcantara Park

4 April, 2020
The fluvial park of the Alcantara river is a rural area in Sicily. Beautiful in any season the park is famous for its river, woodlands and wild animals. An Idyllic place where the more traditional willows trees sit alongside trees…

VW Golf VI – rumours and sketches

4 April, 2020
Auto Bild has a new rendering of the VW Golf VI by Huckfeldt, with a nice and sporty hatchback style (even if the single-frame grill is a little bit too “Audi”).Auto Motor und Sport has some pictures of the next…

WSBK – Althea Racing Launches 2010 Line Up

4 April, 2020
You can tell that we are finally approaching the new racing season when teams start their official presentations.The new 2010 Althea Racing Team was officially presented on Saturday January 16th at a club in Fasano, near Brindisi (Italy). This year…

BMW M3 E90 and the sticker we'd all like to have

4 April, 2020
Oh, to be that tester: a dream car like the next BMW M3, with its V8 engine with more than 400 hp and a sticker on the trunk that says “gov approved high speed safety test”.Besides the sticker, spyshots of…

Casey Stoner: "This feels really nice"

4 April, 2020
Casey Stoner absolutely dominated the Australian GP weekend from Friday morning to Sunday afternoon, taking his fourth consecutive win at Phillip Island. The Ducatista was so blazing fast that at the end of lap 1 that he already had a…

Loris Capirossi returns for Sachsenring GP

4 April, 2020
Loris Capirossi will be making an ahead of schedule return to take part in the upcoming German GP at Sachsenring, despite not being totally fit.The Italian rider missed the Assen and Mugello races after sustaining rib and shoulder injuries during…

Rome: Ara Pacis in colour

4 April, 2020
Now thanks to a new generations of scholars which have done groundbreaking work on the use of colour in ancient times, we know for sure that the famous Ara pacis in Rome was originally painted in bright colours. In fact…

Lorenzo and Checa at Nolan 2011 launch

4 April, 2020
The 2011 Nolan helmet range has been presented with brand ambassadors Jorge Lorenzo, Carlos Checa and Marco Melandri all on board to enjoy the 2011 range launch. The new year sees some innovative and exciting helmet development from Nolan, including…

Rispoli and Young ready for Indianapolis GP

4 April, 2020
The upcoming Indianapolis GP will see the return of Blake Young and Attack Performance in their third wild-card race of the season, after the previous two rounds at the Austin and Laguna Seca rounds.Young, who is often mentored by Kevin…

More rider quotes from the Silverstone GP

4 April, 2020
We’ve go the final round-up rider quotes from today’s MotoGP race at Silverstone and we have to admit that we were pretty impressed by how strong Alvaro Bautista and rookie Karel Abraham looked all this weekend, whether it was wet…

Style, Class and the BMW S1000 RR (w/video)

4 April, 2020
German photographer Markus Hofmann was once again called in for this very high class photo shoot during the WSBK Silverstone round starring the BMW S 1000 RR and some chic brolly models wearing Munich designer Kinga Horvaths clothes.According to BMW’s…

Alvaro Bautista's Wheelie Goes Bad

4 April, 2020
Alvaro Bautista took third in today’s 250cc GP race, and while celebrating pulled the usual post race wheelie, but unfortunately flipped his bike in front of 130,000 Czech racing fans and had to hitch a ride to the parc ferme…

Emily Blunt and John Krasinski: pre-wedding party Lake Como

4 April, 2020
Here are exclusive pics of the Emily Blunt’s and John Krasinki’s pre-wedding party at the Villa d’Este on Lake Como. Party guests included many big names of Hollywood: Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso and of…

No Aprilia Superbike Ride for Simoncelli

4 April, 2020
Marco Simoncelli will not be getting his wish to partecipate in two rounds of the WSBK aboard the new Aprilia . Just a second slower than MotoGP veteran Nakano, at the Valencia tests last november, the 21-year-old Simoncelli was thought…

MotoGP Le Mans: Casey Stoner devastating in FP2

4 April, 2020
This afternoon’s free practice 2 at Le Mans once again saw a Honda 1-2-3, with a devasting Casey Stoner leading the field with a blistering 1.33.782 and the only rider to break the 1.34 mark, shaving off another three tenths…

Ben Spies takes Superpole

4 April, 2020
Yamha rider Ben Spies took 1st place again in the Superpole knockout and while was at it also broke lap record at the Losail circuit in Qatar.Spies took his Yamaha YZF-R1 to a best time of 1.57.280 ahead of Guandalini…

Triumph 2013 Speed Triple R Dark – very limited edition

4 April, 2020
Triumph has teamed up with custom paint shop 8 Ball to produce a very limited production of the 2013 Speed Triple R in a special “Dark” livery just for the U.K. market.The British manufacturer will produce 30 units of the…