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Ducati's new team mascot

12 April, 2020
Designed by Filippo Calzi for Cav. Ilari Alberto’s Pig-Art, this Ducati Desmosedici VR46 replica pig was given to Ducati’s team manager Vittoriano Guareschi.Before anyone flies off the handle, this isn’t some slight against Valentino Rossi or someone’s impression that Ducati…

Gift idea: Borsalino helmet with the fur trim

12 April, 2020
When you think you’ve seen it all, you have to think again - we had never seen a helmet with a fur trim until now. The idea behind this comes from a Piedmontese brand that produces jet helmets: calling this…

Lucra 2.2: first images available

12 April, 2020
Diminutive California-based carmaker Lucra Cars has released the first official pictures of their model, tentatively code-named ‘2.2′. What we actually have here is a little more than a couple of teasing images, meaning only two graphic reconstructions of the car,…

No more respite for Derbi, Piaggio closes down factory

12 April, 2020
In 2011 Piaggio had warned that they would be closing the historic Derbi factory in Martorelles, Spain and move production to Italy as part of their restructioning program, that would have left between 150 and 230 workers without a job,…

MotoGP set to ban private testing again

12 April, 2020
Before the start of the 2012 season the GP Commission decided to change the testing rules (which were initially put into place as a cost saving measure) - in regards to private testing and that it was “agreed that with…

Came IodaRacing presents 2013 MotoGP and Moto2 squads

12 April, 2020
Giampiero Sacchi’s IodaRacing Project teams are continuing in 2013 their collaboration with Came (leader in automation systems and access controls) and yesterday at Came’s headquarters in Treviso presented their 2013 line-up with Danilo Petrucci and Lukas Pesek on the Ioda-Suter…

Video: Dani Pedrosa in 3900 images for AMV Seguro

12 April, 2020
AMV Seguro is a Spanish insurance company for motorcycles and one of Dani Pedrosa’s personal sponsors (you can see their logo on the front of his leathers just above the big Repsol one) and this time lapsed video begins with…

Max Biaggi – The rider you love to hate

12 April, 2020
Known as the Roman Emperor or the Black Corsair, his girlfriend for the last five years, Eleonora Pedron, a former Miss Italy calls him The Boss, and Max Biaggi is the rider that you either passionately love or hate. Adored…

Max Neukirchner reveals MR Racing Livery

12 April, 2020
No big team launch for Mario Rubatto’s MR Racing team who will debuting in World Superbikes this season with SBK returnee Max Neukirchner.The 29-year old German rider who spent the last two season in Moto2 posted this photo on his…

Victory Motorcycles new models

12 April, 2020
This video presents the two brand new Victory Motorcycles models for 2012. The models have been added to the range to expand it and don’t substitute any previous models. A new Victory Edge program has also been developed which is…

Diego Maradona Dedicates Argentina Victory to Valentino Rossi

12 April, 2020
Even if you don’t follow football, you’ll certainly have heard the name Diego Maradona, former superstar football player and highly controversial figure who’s life was paved with cocaine addiction, weight problems, troubles with the Italian tax man, last year became…

Sexy Bikers: the Paddock Girls from Barcellona

12 April, 2020
If the Italians girls are fantastic (and we don’t think anyone could really object), the Spanish girls are no different. The championships at Montmelò put in the spotlight the ladies: brunette, blonde, redheads, for the guys here, there’s no difference.…

Triumph to Launch Two New Models (w/video)

12 April, 2020
Triumph through their official website and Facebook page has announced that they are currently working on two new exciting models, that will probably a road model and a maxi enduro that will try to take on the BMW’s R 1200…

Motorcycle and biker birthday cakes. Pictures

12 April, 2020
We love this gallery of pics with motorcycle and biker birthday cakes. I’m particularly impressed by the upright models, and imagine this is the hard work of many women who probably regretted their son’s, husband’s or boyfriend’s motorcycle passion in…

Video: the Batpod from the Dark Knight movie

12 April, 2020
In the Dark Knight movie, the Batman film, the Batpod is a feature. In this video it is taken out of the trailer and showed to the visitors. Whether this bike will be ridden, or enter a production, I don’t…

Vespa toys: how to make a Vespa with paper

12 April, 2020
Let’s take a step back in time to the 60’s and take a ride in the seat of a Vespa 150. Or not… this cute toy in British style comes from Paper Replika and is a recreation of a Vespa,…

Suzuki rules out wildcard races in 2013

12 April, 2020
After leaving MotoGP at the end of 2011, Suzuki targeted their return in 2014 and when Cycle World published last May the first images of the brand new prototype machine (with a redesigned engine) testing at Sugo, hopes were raised…

Suomy helmets 70's jet helmet

12 April, 2020
The new Suomy jet helmet has all the technology you’d expect but is called 70’s - reflecting its inspiration from the 1970’s - a pretty good decade for cool motorcycle design, we’d say. The Suomy 70’s helmet is light, versatile…

Chaz Davies crowned World Supersport Champion at Magny Cours

12 April, 2020
Would have anyone thought at the beginning of the 2011 World Supersport season that the ParkinGo Team when they switched manufacturers to pick up slightly outdated Yamaha YZF-R6’s would have dominated the series and take the championship title with Chaz…

Leon Haslam fastest on day 2 at Portimao

12 April, 2020
Heading the top of timesheets on the second consectuive day of testing at Portimao was once again Leon Haslam. The BMW factory rider set a 1.43.2 lap shaving off four tenths from yesterday’s lap time. Eugene Laverty broke yesterday’s BMW…

Ducati MotoGP 2010 highlight video

12 April, 2020
Enel, Italy’s largest power company (obviously, it was the country’s only energy supplier until 2006) and one of Ducati’s sponsors, has put out this great little video of Ducati’s, can we say, up and down 2010 racing season due to…

Pic of the Day: A fan's tribute to Claudio Castiglioni

12 April, 2020
Fans can mourn the passing of MV Agusta’s President Claudio Castiglioni in many ways, but we admit that Eugenio on his Brutale 910R has come up with a very fitting tribute in using one of Castiglioni’s famous phrases: There are…

MotoGP Jerez: Jorge Lorenzo takes thrilling pole position

12 April, 2020
Today’s MotoGP qualifying session at Jerez went down to fierce battle for the pole position between two rival Spaniards, Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo and Repsol Honda’s Dani Pedrosa who were completely above the rest of the field for the entire session.Despite…