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MotoGP Mugello: Marco Simoncelli leads in sunny warm-up

19 March, 2020
MotoGP warm-up this morning saw a sunny and dry Mugello with the forecast expected to be the same for this afternoon’s race. Heading the top of the chart was Marco Simoncelli who laid down a best lap of 1.48.430 on…

More from the Kawasaki Soap – The Hurricane

19 March, 2020
Not Dornaski nor Kaworna, but Hayate. This is the name that has been chosen by Kawasaki for their private team. The new team will be equipped with Kawasaki motorcycles and supporting materials, but has opted to change its name because…

2013 KTM 450 SX-F Factory Edition – Preview

19 March, 2020
In the wake of the success of the 2012 version - presented in December 2011 in the U.S. market and gone ’sold out’ in a matter of months - KTM introduces the new 2013 KTM 450 SX-F Factory Edition, which…

Cal Crutchlow undergoes surgery, Assen in doubt

19 March, 2020
Cal Crutchlow has finally undergone surgery to repair his left collarbone that he fractured during qualifying at Silverstone after surgery was delayed for two days as doctors assessed a suspected non-displacement fracture of his C2 vertebrae.Given the all clear after…

Sway Motorsports reveals its 3-wheel e-scooter prototype

19 March, 2020
California’s Sway Motorsports introduces an electric three-wheel scooter prototype that took a few years to develop and is now almost production-ready. Apparently, the project was carried out ‘in his spare time’ by one Mr. Joe Wilcox, a toy-designer and Rhode…

Ryuichi Kiyonari to Gresini Moto2? UPDATED

19 March, 2020
With Moto2 World Champion Toni Elias linked back to MotoGP in 2011 with Pramac Ducati (evidently he’s gotten over his qualms about riding a Ducati after a disastrous 2008), Fausto Gresini is already casting around for another rider to fill…

Honda CBR500, CB500X and CB500R sighted in Italy: spy shots

19 March, 2020
The first images of the brand new Honda CBR500, CB500X and CB500R (though something has already surfaced on the internet) come from Sulmona, Italy, where local newspaper Il Centro (’The Centre’) has spotted the three models on the ‘top secret’…

Guided Tour of Chris Vermeulen's Motorhome

19 March, 2020
Chris Vermeulen has finally returned to racing in this weekend’s World Superbike round at Assen,after missing the last two rounds due to the serious knee injury he picked up during his highspeed crash at Phillip Island.The Australian gives us a…

Cooking with tire warmers?

19 March, 2020
You thought tire warmers were important only to keep your tires up to temperature and help avoid crashes? Think again, because those great folks at On The Throttle have come up with this silly video for cooking a holiday meal…

Yamaha factory riders leave Jerez happy

19 March, 2020
Casey Stoner may have pipped Jorge Lorenzo for the top spot on Day 3 at Jerez, but the Mallorcan rider can head to Qatar for the first race of this 2012 season with a Yamaha M1 that is in the…

Liberty Racing says Sylvain Guintoli has had poor results

19 March, 2020
After their brief press release issued this afternoon regarding Sylvain Guintolileaving their team, Liberty Racing has decided to put an entirely different spin to the story and from a “misunderstanding between the mechanics and the administrative management of the team”…

Ossa in 2011 trial championships with TR280i

19 March, 2020
The revival of the Ossa Spanish offroad bike brand will see the new Ossa TR280i compete in next year’s World Trial Championship after success at the trial nations event in Polond last weekend. Spain won for the seventh year in…

Jorge Lorenzo wants Simoncelli's head and racing license

19 March, 2020
That Jorge Lorenzo and Marco Simoncelli have a certain history this season is a well known fact, that Marco Simoncelli has been amply criticized and lectured for being reckless is also a fact; as his inability to get to the…

Torneo Helmet Day Video

19 March, 2020
Torneo helmet manufacturer and friends got together last May to celebrate the Torneo helmet day in the city of Turin, Italy.Launched at the 2008 EICMA Show in Milan back in November, Torneo released these Italian design sports orientated helmets.These open…

Italian motorcycle design: Vun by CR&S

19 March, 2020
This is the first part of a video made by Key Frame on the story of the Vun, a peculiar bike created by CR&S (Cafe’ Racers & Superbikes), founded by Roberto Crepaldi in 1992.We saw CR&S at the Eicma Milan…

Balatonring – First stone laid

19 March, 2020
The first stone of the new £50 million Balatonring circuit, which will host next year’s Hungarian Grand Prix was laid on the construction site near Savoly in Western Hungary on Thursday.Among those attending the event was local star Gabor Talmacsi,…

Man fined for riding bike with BBQ attached

19 March, 2020
We all know Aussies love a good ‘barbie’, but this effort to pick up a used one is perhaps going too far. This funny motorcycle pic shows Michael Wiles riding along Melbourne’s Eastern freeway, looking through the grill of a…

Elena Myers rides the Suzuki GSV-R at Indianapolis (w/video)

19 March, 2020
Rizla Suzuki boss Paul Denning made good on his promise because Elena Myers finally got her chance to ride the Suzuki GSV-R yesterday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and making her, to our knowledge the second female racer ever to…

Mission One Electric Sportbike

19 March, 2020
Unveiled at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference, the Mission One from Mission Motors (formerly known as Hum) and designed by Yves Behar and fuseproject have presented the world’s first production electric sportbike with a top speed of 150 MPH…

Photoshop unleashed: Alfa 169

19 March, 2020
People have started unleashing their photoshop skills on the upcoming Alfa Romeo 169. And who can blame them: Alfa will finally build a nice big saloon, based on the Maserati Quattroporte with a transaxle transmission and nice big engines.The image…