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Rossi wants to make up last years race

29 March, 2020
Not only Stoner wants to win and gain many championship points in next weekend’s MotoGP round at Misano. Valentino Rossi wants to make up his disappointing breakdown in last year’s home GP. Rossi, leading the championship with 50 points over…

Silly Season: Ducati offers a Blank Cheque to Valentino Rossi?

29 March, 2020
We thought that silly season had died down with Valentino Rossi out of action, and everyone involved was now finally working quietly behind the scenes, but apparently we were wrong, because Spanish website motocuatro.com citing RTVE MotoGP commentator and journo…

Opel electric concept Frankfurt

29 March, 2020
The Opel electric concept that we’ll be seeing at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show is still without a name at this stage, but in this teaser pic it faces off with the Opel Ampera. Opel describes the model as a…

MotoGP, Indianapolis: here come the paddock girls (gallery)

29 March, 2020
The Indianapolis round of the MotoGP World Championship saw Marc Marquez completing a perfect weekend where he topped all the free practice sessions, got himself the pole position with the new record of the circuit n then won the race…

Monster Energy to sponsor Yamaha Factory team

29 March, 2020
Following the rumors that Yamaha had bought out Jorge Lorenzo’s personal sponsor RockStar to make way for Monster Energy who wanted to co-sponsor the entire team, today Yamaha Factory Racing officially announced that they signed a two-year sponsorship and partnership…

Marco Melandri undergoes ankle surgery

29 March, 2020
After completing 237 laps during his third and latest test on the Aprilia RSV4 at the Spanish circuit of Jerez de la Frontera, Marco Melandri underwent ankle surgery yesterday at the Policlinico Universitario in Modena. The Italian suffered the injury…

Maurizio Arrivabene: "We believe in Ducati's project"

29 March, 2020
Sponsors are usually silent partners, but they’re are the ones that fodder teams pockets and allows them to continue racing and they often wield power that goes beyond seeing their names on the livery.Many of you may remember Maurizio Arrivabene,…

Kymco Like 125cc and 50cc. Pictures and general info

29 March, 2020
The Kymco Like 125/50 is a new retro style scooter from Italian designer Massimo Zaniboni. The classic scooter has clean and modern lines, is compact but with some fine details and finishing.‘Like’ comes from a detailed study on 50’s and…

Dirt-RAD by Radical Ducati

29 March, 2020
Sooner or later, it was bound to happen anyway. For once, Pepo Rosell and Reyes Ramon of renowned aftermarket company Radical Ducati put their love for the Italian desmo machines aside and turned their attention to a Japanese motorcycle from…

Aprilia Dorsoduro Factory local pricing

29 March, 2020
The Aprilia Dorsoduro Factory will be available on the Italian market this month, with local pricing released and an offer “you can’t refuse” for March only. Until March 31, the Dorsoduro Factory will be available with sports slip-on exhaust for…

Photo of the Day: #46 on the Cutting Edge

29 March, 2020
You’re probably thinking this is another one of those Valentino Rossi fans that stickers everything he owns with Rossi’s number, well you’re both right and wrong. This pimped out lawn mower belongs to Alex Briggs, one of Rossi’s Aussie mechanics…

New Aprilia Sportcity One scooter

29 March, 2020
Aprilia has really worked on bringing up its family of models, and we can see an interesting evolution in the Aprilia scooter segment, with the latest addition, the Sportcity One 50 2T, showing a trend towards smaller rather than larger…

2011 EICMA: a visor wiper for your helmet

29 March, 2020
Taiwanese company HaiHao introduced a pretty peculiar new product at the 2011 EICMA: you read it in the headline, it’s wiper for the visor that has to be placed on the top of your helmet. Surely, every time the rain…

Kawasaki off-road 2010: KX range gets improvements

29 March, 2020
Kawasaki is presenting its off-road KX model year 2010 range with some improvements to the following current models: KX450F, KX250F, KX85, KX65, KLX450R and KFX450R.While the bikes will remain essentially Kawaski style, some engineering developments mean that the lime green…

Schumacher pulls out of IDM Superbike

29 March, 2020
Former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher has called off plans to race this weekend at Lausitzring in Germany in the German IDM Championship on a Honda CBR1000RR with Holzhauer Racing.Schumacher crashed in February while testing on the track in Cartagena,…

BMW Vision EfficientDynamics production vehicle to become BMW i8

29 March, 2020
The BMW Vision EfficientDynamics production vehicle could be called the BMW i8 according to reports from Dutch site AutoInternationaal. The concept vehicle was revealed at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show and a production model was announced not long after. The…

Rider quotes from Friday practice sessions at Motegi

29 March, 2020
Despite all the controversy from the riders that surrounded this weekend’s Japanese GP at Motegi, when the light went out at the end of the pitline for today’s free practice sessions, all the MotoGP riders were present and accounted for.…

T-Max Protex 01, with a Ducati 749 engine

29 March, 2020
The T-Max Protex 01 is a project conceived by Fuorigirimoto, for a scooter with motorcycle’s engine. Our contacts over at Special tried it out and liked what they saw.Basically, this is a T-Max equipped with a Ducati 749 engine. A…

Marco Simoncelli's pass on Max Biaggi

29 March, 2020
Lucky for us the Flamini Brothers and Infront Motor Sports who run the WSBK series are less strict with Superbike footage, so this video probably won’t disappear like the MotoGP ones do.Here’s Fabrizio Calia from Italian TV La 7 interviewing…

Volkswagen Golf R Convertible: spy shots without cammo

29 March, 2020
The Volkswagen Golf R Cabriolet has been spotted again on the road, but this time around our photographers caught it stripped of any sort of camouflage. thereby the pictured model should be very, very similar to the final production version.…