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MV Agusta gains 12% market share in Italy

22 March, 2020
MV Agusta, during a difficult period for the world markets, is reporting a significant increment of its 3 cylinder and 4 cylinder model registrations in the first two months of the year with a 100% increase compared to the same…

San Carlo Gresini to field FTR/Honda CRT in 2012

22 March, 2020
Instead of running two very expensive Honda RC213Vs in next season’s MotoGP championship, Fausto Gresini has decided to split his garage and also run a CRT machine thus confirming the recent rumors.The Italian manager has opted for a chassis made…

Supermoto: Sylvain Bidart 'best of' video

22 March, 2020
Here is a nice video showing the best moments of the last year for French supermoto specialist Sylvain Bidar and his Honda CRF-R of the Luc1 Motorsport team, all of which in slow motion. The footage is indeed quite cool…

Dani Pedrosa training in the Canary Islands

22 March, 2020
Switzerland is story book perfect in the winter time, the Alps, skiing, hot chocolate or something a little more alcoholic to warm you up, but it isn’t the ideal spot to start doing some outside training for the upcoming MotoGP…

Valentino Rossi's Crew to Ducati

22 March, 2020
In a long and very interesting interview with Sport Rider website, Jeremy Burgess finally let the world know that he’ll be definitely going to Ducati with Valentino Rossi next season as will Brent Stephens and Matteo Flamigni. Now one of…

New Ducati factory: Ducati moves to new facilities

22 March, 2020
In a historic moment for Ducati, the traditional headquarters at Borgo Panigale will make way for a residential complex, with Ducati facilities moving to Persicetana and a new factory measuring 165,000 square metres.The reason for the move includes the need…

Rosso Puro TTre Moto Guzzi vintage custom by Filippo Barbacane

22 March, 2020
Filippo Barbacane could be considered the modern embodiment of the Moto Guzzi philosophy, and his Rossopuro brand is well known among fans of Guzzi and afficionados of the aftermarket and tuning segments. It seems that the majority of the Barbacane…

Opel Meriva Concept – official images

22 March, 2020
Some photos of the Opel Meriva Concept surfaced today. The small MPV features rear-hinged rear doors that can open to a 90° degree angle. If you put together the presence of the b-pillars and the sober interiors, the Meriva Concept…

Double Turkish delight for Eugene Laverty at Istanbul

22 March, 2020
Eugene Laverty is the 'sultan' of the Intercity Istanbul Park circuit. The Aprilia rider after his victory in race 1, repeating himself in race 2 in the inaugural World Superbike championship in Turkey.Race 2 seemed a copy of race 1…

2012 BMW kits F 800 GS and F 650 GS

22 March, 2020
BMW has created some new updates and kits for its “F” range for the 2012 model year. Starting with the BMW F 800 GS Triple Black kit, which takes on the same Triple Black details as used on the R…

Phillip Island MotoGP Paddock Girls Gallery

22 March, 2020
These Aussie brolly and grid girls have to be hard as nails, traipsing around the Phillip Island pitlane and grid in mini skirts and bare midriffs and continue smiling in those cold and windy conditions.I don’t know how Lauren Vickers…

Max Biaggi to hold press conference at Vallelunga

22 March, 2020
2012 World Superbike champion Max Biaggi still has to confirm whether he is going to continue racing next season or finally hang up his lid and retire after a glorious career and six world titles.The Aprilia rider was present during…

Q&A with BMW's Marco Melandri

22 March, 2020
The World Superbike championship kicks off at the end of the month and the BMW Motorrad factory team has decided to go for a pre-season Q&A with their new rider Marco Melandri and the Italian talks about his impressions on…

MotoGP : Wilco Zeelenberg, Jorge Lorenzo’s new Team Manager

22 March, 2020
Straight from Yamaha’s winning Supersport team with Cal Crutchlow, Wilco Zeelenberg has been confirmed as Daniele Romagnoli’s replacement and will be Jorge Lorenzo’s new Team Manager.Zeelenberg, a former Gran Prix and Supersport rider, before joining Yamaha Motor Europe as a…

EICMA: Ducati Streetfighter wins first bike contest

22 March, 2020
The new born Ducati Streetfighter has won his first bike contest. It was organised by “motociclismo” at the “Milano Fiera” during the EICMA, the most important bike exhibition of the year. It was the 66th edition and 500.000 people came…

AirAsia to sponsor Yamaha in MotoGP?

22 March, 2020
With Fiat having yet to announce if they will continue sponsoring Yamaha Racing in MotoGP (which is doubtful since Rossi will be going to Ducati) next season and the last rumors were that Spanish telecomunications company, Telefonica, was going to…

Royal Enfield Bullet 500 enduro rendering

22 March, 2020
Oberdan Bezzi has created this rendering of a Royal Enfield Bullet 500 enduro model. While he envisages a daily road model, we’d still be interested to see an off-road Royal Enfield. Bezzi’s version would be reliable, providing plenty of mileage,…

MotoGP: Honda gets 'One Heart' Logo

22 March, 2020
Honda HRC has picked up a new sponsor for the final race of the season and for 2011 (it looks like Livio Suppo has been doing something else besides poaching Casey Stoner from Ducati and infighting with Alberto Puig) that…

Jorge Lorenzo Pin Up

22 March, 2020
After Yamaha PR appearances in Thailand and Indonesia, and spending a hard earned week’s vacation on the fantastic island of Bali with close friend and future Moto2 rider Ricky Cardùs, Jorge Lorenzo was back in action today in Florence, posing…

2011 offroad Husqvarna WR250 and WR300

22 March, 2020
Here’s a look at the new Husqvarna WR250 and WR300 for 2011. The two-stroke bikes are protagonists in the Enduro World Championship and are very similar in 2011 to the current models.The WR250 and WR300 get new graphics for this…

Video – Chris Vermeulen talks to us from his hospital bed

22 March, 2020
Chris Vermeulen has undergone a second corrective surgery on his injured knee that he picked up during the opening round at Phillip Island and that was further damaged after his crash in race 1 at Brno.The Australian will be missing…

Benelli Jarno Racing Concept

22 March, 2020
The great Oberdan Bezzi aka known as Obiboi, has come up with another interesting concept that as he writes in his website is a tribute to the legendary Jarno Saarinen that in 1972 raced with the Benelli 350 and 500…

Verdandi Motorcycle Concept

22 March, 2020
A lot of interesting motorcycle concepts seem to be coming out of universities these days, and this is the latest and it comes from Chalmers University in Gothenburg. The idea behind the Verdandi project was to investigate why fewer women…