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Mustang motorcycles are back: retro bikes revived

24 March, 2020
Mustang motorcycles are being revived by the California Scooter Company who has built a 149cc, four-stroke engine. The original Mustang bikes were built from 1947 to 1965 and were generally equipped with a 320cc single cylinder motor, or a 122cc…

Toseland talks about the rift with Colin Edwards

24 March, 2020
In these last months James Toseland has kept a very low profile and refused to talk about the crew chief swap that led teammate Colin Edwards to make certain public statements and request that a wall be put up between…

MotoGP Sepang 2 test – more from the riders on day 1

24 March, 2020
Day 1 of the second official Sepang test was marred first by a greasy and slippery track that didn’t allow lap times to drop and then it was further hampered by the appearance of the usual afternoon tropical downpour but…

Peugeot RD megalopolis concept at Shanghai

24 March, 2020
At the Beijing motor show last year, Peugeot presented a competition for car designers, to create a Peugeot prototype adapted to megalopolis cities. With more than 2,500 entries, the winner of this extraordinary competition was Carlos Arturo Torres Tovar, 27…

Hoverbike motorcycle-helicopter invention

24 March, 2020
An Australian inventor is developing this Hoverbike contraption which is a cross between a motorcycle and helicopter. The Hoverbike uses a 1,170cc boxer engine from a BMW motorcycle to power a pair of propellers. The controls are similar to a…

Ben 'Elbowz' Spies Flies in Superpole Knockout

24 March, 2020
Texan WSBK rookie Ben Spies on his Yamaha YZF R1 took his first Superpole win of the season during the new Superpole formula session at Phillip Island in Australia, also smashing the lap record to that was held by Troy…

Tom Sykes takes dominant victory in race 1 at Assen

24 March, 2020
The sun was shining at Assen for the first race of today’s double header and Kawasaki’s Tom Sykes dominated the race from lights-to-flag with a punishing ryhthm to take his first victory of the 2013 season.After taking yesterday’s pole position,…

Jorge Lorenzo has already undergone collarbone surgery

24 March, 2020
Following his crash during yesterday afternoon’s FP2 at Assen, it was expected that Jorge Lorenzo would undergo surgery at the Dexeus Institut in Barcelona later today (Friday) or on Saturday, instead the Yamaha rider didn’t want to waste a single…

Yamaha Vmax Hyper Modified by Abnormal Cycles

24 March, 2020
Yamaha Motor Italia teamed up with renowned Italian customizers Abnormal Cycles to make a special one-off version of their popular Vmax, named Hyper Modified. The model is actually the fourth addition to the ‘Vmax Hyper Modified’ series, following the three…

LGS Sport Lab – PsyOps for riders

24 March, 2020
Times are really changing for professional racers, some riders like Jorge Lorenzo, have or have had sports psychologists to help them through bad times or if their performances aren’t up to par according to their team, they may get hauled…

Audi S3 – official press release

24 March, 2020
To complement the first news about the new Audi S3, below the fold you can find the official Audi press release and high-res images.Ingolstadt, 1 August 2006Dynamism and driving pleasureDynamism, sportiness and sophistication – the Audi A3 holds an outstanding…

Beta Enduro bikes

24 March, 2020
Here are the first pics of the new Beta RR Enduro 350 4T model for 2012. The Beta RR4T models have slowly made a name for themselves in recent years as responsive, trustworthy models that require low maintenance. Beta likes…

Mother and Daughters Break Speed Records

24 March, 2020
What does a mother of two teenage daughters do instead of fighting about clothes, unsuitable boyfriends and school, she puts them on motorcycles and teaches them how to break Bonneville National Land Speed Records.Laura Klock is the speed mom who…

Spain's Postal Service goes with electric scooters

24 March, 2020
Correos, Spain’s postal service with their bright canary yellow scooters is going green. The public company has bought one hundred electric scooters dubbed ScooterCargo ITR 120 from ITR Intermurcia.These scooters have an operating range between 80 and 90 kilometers and…

WSBK – Fabrizio gets the kiss of death?

24 March, 2020
Take a look at this video of Davide Tardozzi hugging Michel Fabrizio at the parc ferme after race 2 at Portimao and what the guys who posted the video compared it to. Hilarious.After all the controversy surrounding the lack of…

WSBK Assen: Jonathan Rea pips Smrz in QP2

24 March, 2020
The second qualifying Superbike practice saw Jakub Smrz continue to dominate in the 45 minute session only to have Jonathan Rea snatch the first spot from him with a last lap lunge and break the Effenbert Liberty Racing Ducati rider’s…

More on the Aprilia-Team Toth Story

24 March, 2020
The story regarding Team Toth is getting more complicated and mysterious as the hours go by.According to Gpone.com ,who first reported the news about Toth’s financial difficulties, is now writing that Mattia Pasini’s #75 Aprilia is not in in Team…

Indian Chief 2009: the return of a legend

24 March, 2020
America’s oldest motorcycle manufacturer is back in style, presenting its new Chief models, for 2009. The company, founded more than 100 years ago, will have four models available this year.The new Indian Chief bike series will be a mix of…

MotoGP Sepang FP1 – Jorge Lorenzo strikes back

24 March, 2020
In the opening free practice at the Sepang circuit in Mayasia it was Jorge Lorenzo who topped the time sheets followed by a very close Casey Stoner who was just 0.064s from the Fiat Yamaha rider.Dani Pedrosa took third place…

Volkswagen – the new Lupo, Golf Cabrio e Scirocco

24 March, 2020
Auto Zeitung has some information about upcoming new models from Volkswagen (the Lupo II, the Golf VI Cabrio and the new Scirocco), together with some computer-generated images (these don’t seem too credible, though).The two big novelties under the Piech-Winterkorn management…

Marco Melandri worried about shoulder fitness

24 March, 2020
Ever since his crash during race 1 at Portimao last September that sent him to the hospital with a suspected kidney injury and then kept him out of race 2, Marco Melandri has been nursing a nagging shoulder injury that…

Nicky Hayden promotes safe riding for the armed forces

24 March, 2020
Back in October, CNN ran an interesting story about Marine motorcycle deaths having killed more Marines in the past 12 months than enemy fire in Iraq and that the Navy was also reporting similar rises in motorcycle accidents by miltary…

Your photos: Italy's Motorcross Street

24 March, 2020
We have got to thank Lorenzo for sending us this photo - it’s fantastic! This is Motocross Street in Italy, at the Centro Federale FMI in Polcanto. If you can do better, let us know.Send your funny, bizarre or surprising…