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Cal Crutchlow will attempt to race at Assen

19 March, 2020
Cal Crutchlow was in serious doubt whether he’d be able take part in this weekend’s Assen GP after undergoing collarbone surgery just last week that left him in serious pain. However, his pain level must have greatly diminished over these…

Rumors from Japan: a Honda CBR400R in the works?

19 March, 2020
Japanese motorcycle mag Young Machine reports that Honda is working on a new mid-size sportsbike that will be positioned in the current range between the CBR250R and the CBR600RR. Apparently, the model is being developed with the home market in…

Ducati Diavel from street cruiser to off road machine

19 March, 2020
The Ducati Diavel is the only power cruiser in the Italian manufacturers current model line-up and it was especially made for the American market - we personally haven’t seen that many cruising around Italian roads since it made its debut…

Toyota Auris to be shown at the Bologna Motor Show

19 March, 2020
The Toyota Auris will debut on december 5th at the Bologna Motor Show. These first official photos show that the production car is little changed from the Auris Concept we saw in Paris.It seems that the Auris isn’t really a…

Carlos Checa leads in WSBK Moscow test

19 March, 2020
With the Moscow Raceway debuting for the first time on the World Superbike calendar, the SBK riders have been give a few hours today to learn the new circuit before the round officially begins on Friday and use the front…

Pol Espargaro takes second win of the season at Silverstone

19 March, 2020
After dominating the entire weekend at (except for the warm-up) Pol Espargaro took his victory of the season with a commanding win in today’s Moto2 race at Silverstone.Espargaro was tatically perfect, he let Scott Redding and Bradley Smith battle it…

Silly Season becomes Serious Season

19 March, 2020
The Brno MotoGP round is not known only for its racing, but for most team managers and sponsors its also time to settle talks with riders and their managers and confirm or deny contracts for the following season.Friday saw the…

Michel Fabrizio wipes out Ben Spies at Brno

19 March, 2020
Michel Fabrizio isn’t new to these type of passes that take out other riders, the Roman is often over enthusiastic and once and awhile turns his brain off. This time it was Ben Spies who was leading race 1, trying…

Lancia Delta HPE: final styling unveiled?

18 March, 2020
The image above should depict the definitive styling of the Lancia Delta HPE 2008. It will have to raise again Lancia’s reputation in the hard C-segment, after the unforgettable 80’s Delta left the market never being replaced by a model…

Video: 2010 Suzuki range to appear at EICMA

18 March, 2020
While this video is in French, it gives us a good look at the 2010 Suzuki models which will be presented at the EICMA show in Milan in November. The footage in the video comes from presentations at the Bol…

Ratthapark Wilairot – 6 weeks of rehabilitation

18 March, 2020
We’ve got another update on the physical conditions of Moto2 rider Ratthapark Wilairot, as you know by now was involved in a near fatal motorcycle crash, early Monday morning.According to a press release issued by his Thai Honda PTT Singha…

Rossi and Hayden to test Ducati GP12 at Jerez

18 March, 2020
Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden will be getting their first chance to ride and most importantly test the first GP12 prototype bike at Jerez.Rossi will be getting one-on-one time today, while team mate Nicky Hayden will ride it on Saturday…

MotoGP, Montmelò: a photo gallery from the paddock

18 March, 2020
Here is a nice bunch of shots collected away from the track during the MotoGP race weekend in Montmelo (Barcelona), which saw Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Racing) clinching a well deserved win which allowed him to extend his lead in…

Aprilia Tuono V4 render

18 March, 2020
The guys from Moto Revue have done a photoshop render of the new Aprilia Tuono V4, to be presented at Milan’s EICMA show this year. The render is from Jérôme Vannesson and takes up from the recent Tuono V4 spy…

Alfa Romeo to build a USA plant?

18 March, 2020
Alfa Romeo is about to return to the United States, as stressed many times by Sergio Marchionne, Fiat Group CEO. Marchionne also declared that Fiat Group will build a brand new plant in the US that will assemble only Alfa…

Motorcycle design: MotoMorphic redesigns Aprilia

18 March, 2020
Yesterday we checked out the American version of an Italian Ducati, and now it seems the Americans are playing with motorcycle tuning again, this time on Aprilia. As reported by Top Speed, you can take your old Aprilia to the…

MotoGP Indianapolis: Ben Spies on Pole!

18 March, 2020
Today’s MotoGP qualifying session at Indianapolis saw Monster Yamaha Tech3 rider Ben Spies stun the paddock by taking his first ever pole position with a blazing lap of 1′40.105 that not even his future Yamaha factory team mate Jorge Lorenzo…

Ben Spies and the 2012 Yamaha YZF-R1 (w/video)

18 March, 2020
Yamaha recently updated their Superbike, the YZF- R1 while on the inside the engine is the same 998cc inline four with the crossplane crankshaft that first debuted on the 2009 model, but now they’ve added a traction control system (seven…

Your pics: Kawasaki Egyptian livery

18 March, 2020
The owner of this bike has certainly found a way to stand out, with this bizarre Egyptian livery likely to turn heads, even in the thickest of crowds. The pics come from the guys of the Spilimbergo team from Italy,…

Tony Cairoli 2011 MX1 victory

18 March, 2020
While the guys at Misano and the Nurburgring cruised the track (with the latter getting damp in the process) Tony Cairoli was really kicking up the dirt this weekend as he won his fifth motocross championship victory on board his…

How the Garelli XO' 50 Scooter is Born – X Rated Video

18 March, 2020
Dim lights, sexy French music and Garelli’s bigger scooters, the XO’150 and the XO’ 125 getting it on in the shadows of a garage, this is Garelli’s highly original and ‘erotic’ new commercial dubbed XXXò that sees the birth of…

Icon motorcycle clothing video

18 March, 2020
Icon is a motorcycle clothing and accessories company with an edgy, clever way of presenting itself. That’s a very boring introduction to a company with such street-smart, savvy marketing but that is probably the closest we can get to a…

Marco Simoncelli Autobiography

18 March, 2020
After Valentino Rossi’s What If I Never Tried It and Jorge Lorenzo’s My Story So Far, the 2008 250cc World Champion, Marco Simoncelli has added his contribution the the literary world, with his autobiography called Dio Bò Che Bello, that…

Fastweb thanks Valentino with a full page ad

18 March, 2020
We’ve already shown you a couple of Fastweb commercials starring Valentino Rossi. Now Rossi is officially tied to Ducati and their official sponsors Telecom/TIM (he’s previously worked with them), so Fastweb is losing their testimonial and they took out this…