BMW F800GS and F650GS new colours
The 2010 BMW F 650 GS and F 800 GS have new colours as a touch-up for the new year. The F 650 GS will be available in Lava Orange Metallic, White Aluminium Matt Metallic and Biarritzblue Metallic. The colours…
Bike technology water-cooled BMW R1200GS
Touching up an icon like the BMW R1200GS is no easy task and so the German company has decided to go all out and just rebuild the whole thing, including fitting out its world-famous adventure tourer with a brand new…
Marco Melandri worried about shoulder fitness
Ever since his crash during race 1 at Portimao last September that sent him to the hospital with a suspected kidney injury and then kept him out of race 2, Marco Melandri has been nursing a nagging shoulder injury that…
BMW S 1000 RR goes Ice Racing
We’ve seen a Buell 1125R on ice and we had Vittoriano Guareschi doing Holiday on Ice numbers with a Ducati Desmosedici GP7 (video after the jump) now we’ve got the latest superbike the BMW S 1000 RR that instead of…
BMW 's message to Marco Melandri post EuroCup
If you don’t live in Europe you can’t imagine how important the UEFA EuroCup soccer matches are. Cities and towns across the continent gear up with giant screens to allow huge crowds of frenzied football (soccer) fans to watch the…
BMW M1 ""Hommage"" Concept
At the Concorso d’Eleganza 2008 at the Villa d’Este, BMW has presented its M1 “Hommage”, a tribute to the 30-year-old unforgettable supercar, designed by Giugiaro.This concept is set to be a synthesis of the shape and proportions of the 1978…
Ruben Xaus is leaving Ducati for BMW
Ruben Xaus is a great and spectacular Spanish rider who won’t be racing next year with the Ducati 1098.These days Ruben is pilot in the Sterilgarda Go Eleven team but will join the new BMW factory team to develop the…
Fire and ice: Michael Martin's world tour with a BMW R 1200 GS
Fancy a ride through the volcanic deserts of Iceland? Or how about the ice deserts of Northern Siberia? Motorcycle adventurer and desert expert Michael Martin will be doing just that this year, as he tours the world’s major ice and…
WSBK Misano: Max Biaggi gives himself a Brithday Present and Wins
Three riders, two on factory bikes and one on a privateer Ducati, and the sum of the age of all three riders adds up to 116, but veterans Max Biaggi, Carlos Checa and Troy Corser, certainly didn’t show they have…
New BMW GS model caught testing
Why are first spy shots always lousy? No matter, because thanks to one of Solomoto’s readers who actually chased this BMW bike on a highway near Tarragona to get this pic, it allows everyone to get a not so great…
Pic of the day: BMW F 800 GS in Italy
These beautiful shots show a trusty BMW F800GS touring a natural reserve not far from Italy’s lovely Urbino town in the Marche. The photos come from Italian Pierpaolo who describes his motorcycle tour as “incredible emotions with an all-purpose bike”.…
Superbike Testing at Misano with Aprilia, BMW, Ducati and Yamaha
Three days after the World Superbike round at Assen, four official teams, Aprilia, BMW, Ducati and Yamaha all headed to the Misano Adriatico race track for a two day test session (Wednesday and Thursday), before next week’s important Monza round.The…
BMW S 1000 RR price revealed
BMW Motorrad has revealed that the price of the new S 1000 RR will be 15,850 euros. The four colours available are Thunder grey, Alpinewhite (600 euros more), Lupin blue-Magma Red-Acid green and Mineral Silver.Optional extras for the S 1000…
WSBK Valencia Heat 2 – Nitro Nori Haga wins by 0.025s!
After Race 2 at the Ricardo Tormo race track in Valencia was red flagged following the big crash of Kawasaki rider Simon Andrews and Vittorio Iannuzzo on his Squadra Corse Honda, the second heat would reserve a big surprise with…
Chris 'Teach' McNeil rides a BMW S1000RR: onboard track video
If you were short on track action of the BMW S1000RR, here is plenty with the superbike ridden by stuntman Chris McNeil. ‘Teach’ doesn’t actually pull any tricks as such, but instead completes some fast laps with the BMW S1000RR.…
Motorbikes and Beef?
The American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) has announced that it will be opposing a plan by U.S trade officials that could double the cost of some European motorcycles imported into the United States.It would impose a 100 percent import duty on…
BMW F800R 2011: new color range, photos and video
The 2011 BMW F800R gets new colours as part of the range with shiny yellow/black, granite grey/black and alpine white/lupin blue/magma red now available. The previous paint finish of fire orange and white aluminium will no longer be available and…
2012 BMW kits F 800 GS and F 650 GS
BMW has created some new updates and kits for its “F” range for the 2012 model year. Starting with the BMW F 800 GS Triple Black kit, which takes on the same Triple Black details as used on the R…
BMW factory team to test at Jerez
World Superbike BMW Motorrad team will be at Jerez de la Frontera circuit for a three day test with the new 2012 BMW S1000RR (Moto2 teams will also be present).For Leon Haslam it will be his second season with the…
WSBK Silly Season: Jonathan Rea in BMW and Cal Crutchlow in MotoGP?
Have you had enough of MotoGP silly season yet? Valentino Rossi in Ducati, Casey Stoner 99,9% sure in Honda, Jorge Lorenzo to stay in Yamaha, Dani Pedrosa and Andrea Dovizioso … who knows? Now we’re going to start with World…
BMW Motorrad produces 2 millionth bike
BMW Motorrad is celebrating the milestone of having produced two million bikes since 1969 when the first BMW motorcycle rolled off the Berlin Spandau production line. A one-off, special-edition BMW R 1200 GS was presented by Chris Pfeiffer for the…
Kawasaki Z750R new pics
Here’s a mega gallery of the new Kawasaki Z750R and it seems the company is counting on this being a popular model for it. We’ll get to see the bike first at the Intermot show from October 6 to 10,…
BMW K 1600 GT voted the 2011 International Bike of the Year
BMW can be more than satisfied after posting record sales in 2011 , a +6.4% increase from 2010 despite a waning world wide economy and now their super six cylinder tourer, the BMW K 1600 GT has been voted the…
Sylvain Barrier 2012 Superstock 1000 FIM Cup Champion – Tribute gallery
Max Biaggi was not the only rider to claim his crown at Magny Cours last sunday: with a comfortable second place behind fellow countryman Jeremy Guarnoni (Kawasaki MRS), local hero Sylvain Barrier (BMW Motorrad Italia GoldBet) conquered the 2012 Superstock…
WSBK Assen Race 1 & 2 Video Highlights
We’ve got both video highlights from yesterday’s World Superbike races at Assen. So if you were so unlucky to miss some of the best racing seen so far this year, you’ve got a chance to catch up and see Hannspree…