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Lorenzo, Stoner Injury Updates

27 March, 2020
According to the La Repubblica Jorge Lorenzo suffered a partial dislocation of his right collarbone and a bruised right foot after his massive highside during the Laguna Seca qualifying session, while Casey Stoner’s highside left him a bruised hip.Dr. Claudio…

Happy with Yamaha Vega Commercial from the Philippines

27 March, 2020
Check out this amusing and campy commercial that runs in the Philippines to launch the new Yamaha Vega scooter, but Yamaha’s ad pitch is even funnier:Go! Go! Happy Vega!!! The newest member of Yamaha is finally here! The YAMAHA VEGA…

3M charity project

27 March, 2020
The international company 3M is concerned about social projects, education and environment. For this reason,it’s started a new initiative in the Netherlands called “3M funds”. The fund has two major goals. Firstly to support charity work or projects by their…

Honda Monkey Bike tuning from the UK

27 March, 2020
I reckon if you bought one of these, you could almost gain more notoriety among your mates than if you purchased the latest whizz-bang Ducati. These bikes come from the guys at Monkey Bike UK, who import Honda Monkey Bikes…

Aprilia Mana 850 new colours for 2010

27 March, 2020
The Aprilia Mana gets a new look update with the Mana 850 now available in new single-chrome colours. The rest of Aprilia’s technological and controversial naked bike remains the same with the Sportgear transmission and the GT and ABS versions.…

The 888 Mighty Dragon

27 March, 2020
This is the customized Mighty Dragon 888 built by Kenny Kan. It features a 1400cc, 900-pound Harley Davidson chopper in fire-engine red. The bike is loaded with auspicious Chinese references, Olympic icons and cultural symbols of Beijing. Thanks masmoto for…

MotoGP Sepang – Valentino Rossi heads timecharts in FP1

27 March, 2020
Valentino Rossi started this weekend of racing at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia, by heading the top the timesheets with a best lap 2.02.724 in a tight first free practice session. Andrea Dovizioso, carrying over his excellent form from his…

WSBK Brno: Jakub Smrz leads in tight free practice

27 March, 2020
Free practice at the Automotodrom Brno kicked off under sunny skies and where Max Biaggi historically is the favoured rider to win at least one of the two races.The Aprilia Alitalia rider will try to shorten Carlos Checa’s lead in…

Honda Pro Racing debuts new digital online magazine

27 March, 2020
Honda Pro Racing has debuted a new digital online magazine for motorcycle racing fans.The magazine is less slick than LCR Honda’s Inspire (which has Lady Gaga on the cover of the June issue), it does focus more on all of…

Ducati Streetfighter Official Video

27 March, 2020
Ducati’s latest streetfighter model, unveiled at the 2008 EICMA show in Milan is scheduled to hit US dealerships in May, while the base model Streetfighter will probably available in August. So here’s the official video to promote Ducati’s new naked…

Casey Stoner takes FP3 in a wet Brno

27 March, 2020
It was a wet Brno this morning for almost the entire third free practice and Casey Stoner headed the top of the charts, despite a crash at turn 3 on his first flying lap. Luckily the Australian walked away unhurt…

Stoner and Hayden Shell Video

27 March, 2020
This is the backstage video of Ducati riders Casey Stoner and Nicky Hayden in Madrid for a special pit stop at a Shell service station before they headed to Jerez for the IRTA test.This year marks the tenth anniversary of…

Mercedes C63 AMG pics

27 March, 2020
After leaked pics of the Mercedes C63 AMG ahead of its Geneva show debut appeared, the company has released these official images of what we’ll be seeing at the show. Including both the sedan and wagon version, the moderate facelift…

French motorcyclists continue protest

27 March, 2020
Since no one is listening to their complaints regarding French interior minister Claude Guéant and his series of proposals that specifically targets motorcyclists, over 50,000 angry French bike took to the roads for the third time this year to continue…

Japanese vs European motorcycles 2011 best bikes

27 March, 2020
Is this a real shift in paradigm or merely another passing trend? In naming its top ten best bikes for 2011, Cycle World cites the gaining ground of European bikes against Japanese bikes in the US motorcycle market. Leaving aside…

WSBK – Alitalia to sponsor Aprilia?

27 March, 2020
Alitalia, Italy’s former national airline company, now called Alitalia-CAI is close to closing a two year sponsorship deal with Aprilia’s Superbike factory team.CAI is owned by a group of Italian investors led by Piaggio’s President Roberto Colaninno who also controls…

Ferrari California: the closed top version

27 March, 2020
After the first official shots, with the open roof, we finally see the coupè version of the Ferrari California, with a closed roof. That the California is a different Ferrari is shown by the blu colour chosen for the photos,…

Kawasaki suspends MotoGP team

27 March, 2020
In a press release from today, Kawasaki announced today that it suspended its factory MotoGP racing activities for this year.Kawasaki said they can not recover the impact of the financial crisis and it pushed them to take this unpleasant decision.…

KTM returns to Dakar after 450cc restriction postponed

27 March, 2020
KTM has apparently listed some riders in next year’s Dakar race, despite previous reports that KTM had quit Dakar. The decision has come after a re-scheduling of the 450cc limit. The Dakar site reports:Further to the numerous discussions that have…

Anthony West Talks Kawasaki

27 March, 2020
In an article in Motorsprint’s weekly magazine, Anthony West who will be leaving Motogp for theSupersport series riding a Honda for Team Stiggy, had a few words about his 2008 season and team.I hope Melandri doesn’t come to Kawasaki too…

Porsche 997 Carrera 4S PDK: road test

27 March, 2020
Our colleagues at autoblog.it had the opportunity to do a road test of the Porsche 997 Carrera 4S PDK, thanks to the collaboration of the Porsche delearship in Tuscany.The example they had was the classic silver exterior and black interior,…

Ducati presents 2012 upgrades for Multistrada and Hypermotard

27 March, 2020
Just few weeks before the opening of the Milan International Motorcycle Exhibition (EICMA) and right after the presentation of the new Streetfighter 848 and the announcement of the arrival of the 1199 Panigale, Ducati released more information about its 2012…

Motorcycle Comic: Ruben Xaus on his Way Out?

27 March, 2020
BMW’s Ruben Xaus, who crashed out four times at Phillip Island has been the latest rider to be targeted by the caustic wit of Motoblog’s resident comic artist Luca Ruggeri.The Spanish rider who seems to single handedly support the motorcycle…

Incoming!

27 March, 2020
Sometimes luck just runs out or s##t happens, but this is totally ridiculous. Can you imagine telling your friends or better yet your insurance company, that you were cruising down a street and you got hit by a large, white…