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Parkalgar Honda withdraws from World Supersport

22 March, 2020
The World Supersport championship may have acquired WTR Ten 10 as a new entry, but they’ve just lost the long standing Parkalgar Honda team.The team run by Paulo Pinheiro has decided to withdraw their WSS efforts after six years of…

Kenan Sofuoglu breaks foot – ruled out of Indianapolis Moto2 GP

22 March, 2020
This is Technomag-CIP’s Kenan Sofuoglu horrific highside during yesterday’s Moto2’s first free practice at Indianapolis.The former two-time World Supersport champion crashed out at Turn 16 and suffered a broken right foot and also injured his left knee. The incident has…

Bikers attacked … by a Turkey

22 March, 2020
Troy Croser has been hit by so many birds while racing we can’t even begin to count them. Noriyuki Haga was hit by a pigeon in race 2 in Monza that eventually caused him to crash. We’ve seen cobras slithering…

Visit Spain: Angel Nieto museum dedicated to a Spanish hero

22 March, 2020
In Spain Angel Nieto is considered a national hero. Nieto, born in Zamora (Spain) in 1947 on January 25th, became Spanish hero after achieving an enormous amount of race wins.He won the Spanish National Championship title in the 50, 125,…

Photo of the day: Desmosedici

22 March, 2020
From our reader “il Biondo” we get today’s photo. It’s not really a two-seater Desmosedici, but what the International Motorcycling Federation would impose on Ducati at the next German grand prix, to contain the “super” performance that emerged in the…

Pretty in Pink with the Piaggio Liberty Elle

22 March, 2020
If you’re a woman who loves to ride scooters and adores the the colour pink and likes to attract attention wherever you go, then Piaggio has something just for you in their new 2010 lineup.Taking one their best selling scooters,…

Harley Davidson stays put in Wisconsin

22 March, 2020
We don’t think it’s far fetched to describe Harley-Davidson as a beleaguered company right now but it seems like it just got through a round of tough union negotiations which should see it make some savings. The company has been…

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,…