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Ducati picks up new sponsor for 2013 season

24 April, 2020
After losing Generali, Eni and Diesel as sponsors at the end of the 2012, Ducati has announced that they will have Kobo a global leader in eReading, as a new sponsor for their MotoGP factory team this 2013 season which…

Nicky Hayden Parties at Ducati HQ

24 April, 2020
Nicky Hayden visited the Ducati factory in Bologna this Wednesday to check up on the developments of the new Desmosedici GP10 and to have a little Christmas party with the Ducati Corse staff. The spumante we don’t have to explain,…

Motorcycle tours Italy

24 April, 2020
As Europe comes into its busy holiday season, we had to share these pics of the “20,000 pieghe” competition. It’s a European motorcycle ride across five days that starts from Pavia in Italy and goes to Sestriere. This year saw…

Ducati Multistrada proves its mettle at Pikes Peak

24 April, 2020
Okay, so BMW was missing, but the victory of the Ducati Multistrada 1200 S with two podium positions at Pike Peaks comes very close to provings its endurance road and off-road abilities. The Multistrada won in the 1200cc class with…

MotoGP Laguna Seca Grid Girls

24 April, 2020
Check out our last gallery of images from the Laguna Seca MotoGP weekend. The teams went all out, picking out some of the finest ‘California Gurls’ to represent the USGP as paddock and grid girls and hold up those very…

Electric hydrogen motorcycle ENV tested by Top Gear

24 April, 2020
“Serene” and “space shippy” are two words that James May from Top Gear uses to describe his experience with the ENV - a two wheel, hydrogen fuel cell and electric motorcycle.The problem with this motorcycle has nothing to do with…

Bike SPA – Fully automated bike wash

24 April, 2020
The Bike spa is a revolutionary fully automated washing and drying system for motorcycles and scooters of all kinds and sizes that comes from Israel, and one of guys over at Swiss website AcidMoto decided to personally test it out…

WSBK Brno: Davide Giugliano takes top spot in FP1

24 April, 2020
For the moment the predictions that Brno isn’t a Ducati track was proved wrong by Althea Racing’s Davide Giugliano who took the top of the timesheests in the first free practice at the Czech circuit ahead of this Sunday’s 9th…

WSBK: Shaun Whyte steps in for David Checa

24 April, 2020
WSBK tean Yamaha GMT 94 team has replaced their regular rider David Checa for this weekend’s round at Kyalami with Zimbabwean rider Shaun Whyte.The 39 year old has been in the sport for 25 years and currently races with Team…

Kawasaki Z750R 2011 presentation

24 April, 2020
The brand new Kawasaki Z750R will be presented in Italy on September 15. The model represents a racing development on the standard Z750 naked bike and is being revealed in Italy as it occupies the number one spot in nude…

Honda U3-X video: future city transport

24 April, 2020
The Honda U3-X looks just like the kind of contraption I could fall off without too much effort. It’s an intriguing concept however, half segway, half….electric motorcycle? The U3-X seems to work via the sitting weight transfer of the passenger,…

Guerilla Marketing – Lanzi Moto motorcycle ad campaign

24 April, 2020
Our compliments go the Ejwd marketing and communications studio in Rome for this unconvetional advertising effort for a motorcycle delearship. A first pilot test of the advertising was done at the end of July.The campaign plays on a mirror set…

Who deserves to win Rossi's Donkey helmet and ears?

24 April, 2020
Once and awhile it’s nice to make fun of motorcycle racers with a little irreverent humor and irony and this is what Spanish website Solomoto is doing with their poll ‘Orejas de Burro’ (Donkey Ears) which is more or less,…

Yamaha R6 2007 Replica Abarth

24 April, 2020
Calogero has personalised his Yamaha R6 from 2007 and sent us the photos of his effort. In creating the R6 2007 Replica Abarth, our reader writes, “I made a lot of sacrifices and I hope it’s deserving of publication.”Calogero, here’s…

Nolan N62 Pulsar women's helmet

24 April, 2020
Here’s a couple of fancy designs from Nolan on its N62 full face helmet. The helmets have great quality-price ratio, and have sporty and attractive technical solutions. These N62 helmets appear in Pulsar design and have been made as women’s…

8 Hours of Oschersleben: Michael Schumacker

24 April, 2020
Team Kawasaki France took the victory at the 8 Hours of Oschersleben in Germany. Yamaha Austria Racing finished on second position and Suzuki Endurance Racing third. Yamaha Deutschland, Honda Holzhauer Racing and the Suzuki Yoshimura Germany did not finish.On the…

Kenny Roberts puts several racing bikes on the auction block

24 April, 2020
Triple World Champion Kenny “King” Roberts has decided to partially empty out one of his personal garages and museum (which is temperature controlled) and has appointed RDM Motors to auction off several of the family heirlooms and part of motorcycle…

Renault New Kangoo: images and info

24 April, 2020
The New Kangoo is about to debut at the imminent 2013 Geneva Motor Show (7-17 March) and will be sporting Renault’s new brand identity created by Laurens van den Acker, with its original front end, modernized dashboard and other improvements…

Leon Camier fastest on day 1 of WSBK test at Aragon

24 April, 2020
Just a week after the end of the 2012 World Superbike championship, several teams were back on track at the Motorland Aragon circuit already preparing for the upcoming 2013 season that will kick off with traditional opener at Phillip Island…

Randy de Puniet talks about his surgery (w/video)

24 April, 2020
Randy de Puniet underwent surgery last Friday to remove a screw from his left knee that was inserted after breaking his leg during the 2010 Sachsenring MotoGP.Here’s the French rider talking about his surgery and his hopes of being fit…

MotoGP Brno: Jorge Lorenzo Dominates in FP1

24 April, 2020
Jorge Lorenzo came back from his relaxing holidays in Santo Domingo to continue his domination on track. The Spaniard was the fastest rider in today’s MotoGP free practice at Brno and also took the track record with 20 minutes remaining…

Ducati Multistrada 1200 pics and video

24 April, 2020
The Ducati Multistrada 1200 has still yet to earn its stripes, but these official Multistrada launch pics and video (after the jump) from the presentation have enough sex appeal to make us consider the new Ducati in a positive light.…