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Kenny Roberts Jr.'s Yamaha YZR500 on sale for $ 200,000

29 March, 2020
Being the son of such a living legend as ‘King’ Kenny Roberts brings great responsability and loads of pressure, but Kenny Roberts Jr. managed to secure his own place in racing history winning the World Championship of the 500 cc…

NCR and Ducati North America together with Canadian Superbikes

29 March, 2020
Ducati North America has announced that Team NCR, officially sponsored, will compete in the 2008 championship of Parts Canada Superbike with two Ducati 848 Superbikes racing in the Canadian Thunder National category.The two riders of team NCR will be the…

MotoGP to Silverstone in 2010

29 March, 2020
After 22 years, Donington Park has lost the rights to host the British Gran Prix to Silverstone. Having hosted MotoGP between 1977 and 1986, Motogp will be returning to Silverstone in 2010.Silverstone Circuits Limited has signed a five year agreement…

Marco Borciani in Italian CIV

29 March, 2020
Many of you may not know that Shane Byrne’s Team Sterilgarda BRC Racing manager Marco Borciani is a rider himself and has twice won the Campionato Italiano Velocità (CIV) in 2006 and 2007. In 2008 he decided not to contest…

Leon Haslam: 25 years with Arai celebrated on new helmet

28 March, 2020
At the first round of the 2012 World Superbike Championship - which will take place in Phillip Island, Australia, over the last weekend of February - BMW Motorrad’s rider Leon Haslam will debut a new Arai helmet designed by Drudi…

Sandro Cortese 2012 Moto3 World Champion

28 March, 2020
Alessandro ‘Sandro’ Cortese clinched the inaugural Moto3 championship with two races left in the season. Cortese was born in Ochsenhausen, Germany 22 years ago from an Italian father and German mother and is the first German rider to take a…

Win for Bimota in the Ducati Desmo Challenge

27 March, 2020
Good news for the Italian manufacturer Bimota as the WCR Team Bike Service debuted at the Ducati Desmo Challenge at the Italian Mugello with a quasi standard Bimota DB7 at the racetrack. Starting with a good second position, the Italian…

Sam Lowes takes Silverstone pole despite crash

27 March, 2020
World Supersport Championship leader Sam Lowes (Yamaha Yakhnich Motorsport) will start from the pole position in tomorrow’s race at Silverstone. With two minutes left in the second qualifying session, the talented British rider put in an impressive new best lap…

WSBK, Miller Park: massive photo gallery from the paddock

26 March, 2020
As announced, here is a photo gallery picturing some of the coolest moments away from the track taken during the latest World Superbike round, that took place at the Miller Motorsport Park circuit near Salt Lake City, in the US.…

Moto3, Le Mans: massive photo gallery from the French GP

26 March, 2020
The French GP of the Moto3 class surely provided for some unexpected turn of events: the bad weather conditions and the consequent lack of grip allowed young Frenchman Louis Rossi to seal away and clinch his first victory ever in…

Sam Lowes wins the Supersport round in Assen

26 March, 2020
Britain’s Sam Lowes (Yakhnich Motorsport Yamaha) won the Supersport race of the Dutch GP after a spectacular and rather ‘tactical’ duel with turkish Kenan Sofuoglu (Kawasaki Racing Team India MAHI) that lasted almost the entire race.After creating a gap between…

Ducati 1198R vs Tiger Helicopter

26 March, 2020
Here at Twowheels we usually don’t talk about the Australia Superbike Championship, but these pics with were too hard to pass up and not share.These Ducati 1198R Superbikes from Ducati Motologic factory team were just metres away from a hovering…

Max Biaggi and Aprilia 2012 World Champions photo gallery

25 March, 2020
Forty-one years old and still beating riders almost half his age, Max Biaggi aka the Roman Emperor or the Black Corsair took home his sixth World title on Sunday, his second in World Superbikes and the Italian also gave Aprilia…

Moto 2 Explained – Video

25 March, 2020
Still don’t understand the new Moto2 series that will be substituting the 250cc championship next year? Check out this video interview with Mike Webb, technical director for MotoGP and Jeremy Ferguson of Dunlop who’ll explain the new class for us.During…

Moto2, Le Mans: massive photo gallery from the French GP

25 March, 2020
Swiss rider Thomas Luthi came out on top at the eventful Moto2 race in Le Mans, which also saw Italy’s Claudio Corti conquering his very first podium finish in GP racing and Spain’s Pol Espargaro taking the lead in the…

Arie Vos, Dutch Champion at Doha

24 March, 2020
Today we give a brief profile of Arie Vos, the friendly Dutchman, who won Dutch Open Superbike Championship (ONK) for this year with his Ducati. He also went together with Kari Vehniainen from Finland and the German Matti Seidel, to…

MotoGP, Estoril: the paddock girls (photo gallery)

24 March, 2020
Did you enjoy the photo gallery of the umbralla girls seen at the World Superbike round in Monza we published yesterday? As if that was not enough, here’s another bunch of pics of the nice paddock girls hanging around the…

MotoGP 2013: the paddock girls of the Laguna Seca round

23 March, 2020
The Laguna Seca round showed us for the umpteenth time that the incredibly talented Marc Marquez is indeed a serious contender for the MotoGP crown, but obviously this did not make everyone happy, first and foremost his main rivals for…

WSBK Donington: Rea's fall sequence (gallery)

23 March, 2020
Our mates from twin site Motoblog.it got ahold of a quite interesting sequence of pics showing Jonathan Rea’s crash in Donington during this morning Free Practice. We are not allowed to publish it because of copyright reasons, but you can…

MotoGP, Phillip Island: quotes from the Press Conference

21 March, 2020
The traditional press conference of the MotoGP riders in view of the imminent Australian GP - penultimate round of the 2012 World Championship - was attended by Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing), Repsol Honda duo Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner,…