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Traffic Lights for the Color Blind

16 April, 2020
This isn’t exactly motorcycle news, it’s goes more into the road safety category, but it’s interesting because three designers have come up with this brilliant idea, called UniSignal to help color blind riders and drivers (about 8% of the male…

Rider risk video series – a must see for any motorcycle rider

16 April, 2020
I have to admit that I admire the Australian government who seems to really care about their motorcyclists, because of the amount of money and effort they put into producing motorcycle safety videos.This newest series called Rider Risk comes from…

Casey Stoner, bookies hot favourite in 2012

16 April, 2020
The 2011 MotoGP season finished with a spectacular Casey Stoner having becoming the World Champion having dominated the entire season with his 10 wins, his six other podiums and having reached Mick Doohan’s pole position record of 12. While the…

MotoGP Aragon umbrella girls pics

16 April, 2020
We’re kicking off our photo coverage of the MotoGP Aragon with the lovely Spanish ladies of the paddock. This is one for all those guys who like their women Mediterranean. Coming up live race pics.Paddock Girls and Umbrella Girls MotoGP…

Marco Melandri diary: waiting for Mugello

16 April, 2020
Marco Melandri is preparing for the Mugello race, and has posted another diary entry on his site for his fans, after a period of silence in which he reveals he’s afraid of waking up from a dream. “Not even in…

The Usual Ducati Superbike Lament – The Twins are Penalized

16 April, 2020
Althea Ducati’s Carlos Checa and team owner Genesio Bevilacqua were more or less complaining that the twin cylindered Ducati’s are struggling against the four cylinders and they were lacking in acceleration and top speed and the current rules are penalizing…

Photo of the day: GP MX1 rider Ken De Dycker

16 April, 2020
We give you this brief rider profile and pic of Belgian professional motocross rider Ken De Dycker. Ken, number nine, was born on June 20th 1984 rides in the GP MX1 class with his Factory Suzuki RM-Z 450. Ken’s favourite…

Loris Baz gets Kawasaki Superbike ride?

16 April, 2020
It has yet to be officially confirmed but it looks like Loris Baz will be riding for Kawasaki’s World Superbike team in this weekend fifth round of the season at Donington Park.The highly popular French rider will be replacing injured…

Carlos Checa answers five questions

16 April, 2020
Carlos Checa left round one of the World Superbike championship at Phillip Island with a win and a DNF following a horrific highside in race 1 that would have sapped another rider not only physically, but also his confidence, but…

More rider quotes from MotoGP Estoril

16 April, 2020
We’ve got another batch of rider quotes following today’s third race of the MotoGP season at the Autodromo Fernando Pires da Silva at Estoril.Andrea Dovizioso - 4th “I am very satisfied with my performance in today’s race and particularly with…

Valentino Rossi on the Ducati GP12 – video and pics

16 April, 2020
Wow! We certainly didn’t expect that Ducati would reveal photos and a video with sound of the GP12 and Valentino Rossi in action to the watchful eyes of competitors and fans when they tested today at Jerez, but they did…

Paddock , Brolly and Grid Girls from Sachsenring

16 April, 2020
We’ve left the best for last from the racing weekend at Sachsenring. Paddock, brolly and grid girls here’s a choice gallery of pics that you can look at and enjoy.Imagine Marco Simoncelli explaining to his girlfriend that his sponsor ordered…

Julien Dupont tries out new KTM Freeride E

16 April, 2020
French urban trial and freestyle legend Julien Dupont has been showing us many jaw-dropping stunts throughout the years, and he is quite a popular character among extreme motorsports enthusiast around the world. This time time around he decided to give…

Give yourself a present: Cagiva 500 ex Kocinski on sale

16 April, 2020
If you’ve got a spare few thousand euro lying around or have just won the lottery and want to give yourself a present, you’ve come to the right place. Our reader Paperopoli has sent through this news from Classic Motorbikes…

Akrapovic exhibition

16 April, 2020
Celebrating 20 years of business this year is Akrapovic exhausts and to mark the event they’re having an exhibition of some of their contributions to racing motorcycles over the years. The exhibition is in Slovenia and we could think of…

Video: Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez in action at Sepang

16 April, 2020
Last year Repsol Honda showed us some onboard footage from Dani Pedrosa and Casey Stoner after the first Sepang test and this year is no different, only replace Stoner with MotoGP’s hottest rookie Marc Marquez, leave out the interviews, and…

More from the Motocross dei Campioni (w/videos)

16 April, 2020
We’ve got a couple more videos from the Motocross dei Campioni, 30 Years Later event. The one above is the most interesting because it’s a sort of backstage and Gianluca Alessandrini who made it, bled out all the colour and…

Daniel Pedrosa fastest on final day of testing at Valencia

16 April, 2020
While Yamaha had headed to Aragon to find some sun, the rest of the teams stayed in Valencia for the second and final day of testing at the Ricardo Tormo circuit.While the weather conditions at Valencia were again mixed, first…