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Yamaha Off-Road: the YZ 2009 range arrives

6 April, 2020
The YZF is a name that guarantees: it invented the four-stroke of the modern cross, showing the way for those who followed. And now the Yamaha YZ four-stroke (with an F), is among the bikes that have dominated motocross, starting…

Opel/Vauxhall Astra GTC gets Lotus input

6 April, 2020
Lucky UK customers of the new Opel Astra VXR will get some Lotus fine-tuning work done on the model as it will probably become the Astra GTC in the future. The high-performance version of between 280 and 300 hp is…

Tadayuki Okada debuts new Moto2 team

6 April, 2020
While Pol Espargaro headed the timesheets in yesterday’s first and only day of Moto2 post season testing at Valencia and besides all the rider/team switches it also saw the debut of a new squad, “Honda Asia Team Tady”, run by…

Casey Stoner visits the Sandown 500 – Updated

6 April, 2020
The last news that we heard from Casey Stoner was from his Repsol Honda blog where he updated fans on his post-surgery conditions. The reigning World Champions was to undergo a further check-up on Thursday September 13th, but no further…

MotoGP gossip and rumors from Sachsenring

6 April, 2020
This weekend’s Sachsenring GP has been pretty calm so far with no rider vs another (just Barbera and Hayden in qualifying ,with the Spaniard getting a €1000 euro fine for flipping a finger at the Ducatista), no sniping and the…

Fausto Gresini Q&A interview

6 April, 2020
Fausto Gresini was a former two-time 125cc World Champion (1985-1987) before retiring in 1994 and becoming a team owner and manager and his sucessful satellite teams have been the most sought out in GP racing.Gresini has been a mentor to…

Yamaha Releases EC-03 Electric Scooter

6 April, 2020
We first saw the Yamaha EC-03 concept at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show (see video after the jump) now Yamaha will launch the e-scooter on September 1st in Toyko and a month later in the rest of Japan and then…

Sportbikes Ducati Supersport

6 April, 2020
The internet is aflutter with news that Ducati could reintroduce the Supersport model to its line-up. After a rendering of a new Ducati Supersport by Luca Bar appeared, there has been some wishful thinking and even some rumour mongering as…

Sliding Scooters for snow fun on your bike

6 April, 2020
We’ve already looked at some snow tuning options for your bike this winter; but here RiminiMoto, a tuning workshop, has all the fun for your scooter, transforming your 50cc into snow mobiles.All you need is to equip a small MBK…

Chris Vermeulen to replace Colin Edwards at Le Mans

6 April, 2020
NGM Forward Racing has decided to replace recovering Colin Edwards with former MotoGP and WSBK rider Chris Vermeulen in next week’s French GP race at Le Mans.The Australian dropped out of MotoGP at the end of 2009 when his contract…

Ferrari F40 engine video

6 April, 2020
Our colleagues at Autoblog.it describe the Ferrari F40 engine as the “sound of old glory”. They recently had the chance to meet a Ferrari F40 in mint condition and filmed this example of its engine revving. The camera angles are…

Ducati sold again?

6 April, 2020
Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. is to be absorbed by the 3 largest share holders into a new company. This new company called “Performance Motorcycles S.p.A.” wants to consolidate the remaining outstanding shares of the company. Ducati leadership says the plan…

Alpinestars interviews Dani Pedrosa, Casey Stoner and Andrea Dovizioso

6 April, 2020
Alpinestars’ Beyond The Riders: Dovizioso-Stoner-Pedrosa from Alpinestars USA on Vimeo.After Jorge Lorenzo’s in-depth interview, Alpinestars has gotten three of the more reluctant and shyest MotoGP riders to talk about themselves, which certainly was no mean feat.Andrea Dovizioso, Dani Pedrosa, and…

Tom Sykes takes over on day 2 at Phillip Island

6 April, 2020
Tom Sykes shone during last week’s private testing at Phillip Island and during yesterday’s day 1 ended up seventh and almost a second adrift, instead the Kawasaki rider heading the timesheets today taking over the top spot from Carlos Checa.Posting…

Sylvain Guintoli and Chaz Davies crash sequence at Imola

6 April, 2020
Race 1 at Imola was marred by this particular accident on lap 2. Sylvain Guintoli who was highly tipped to take at least podium this past World Superbike weekend, instead ended up tangling with Leon Haslam at the Tamburello, the…

This could explain why Fabio was in the Yamaha video

6 April, 2020
And we thought that Fabio was just another pretty face. Check out what this Italian stud keeps in his garages; he’s been keeping the motorcycle industry in the black all by himself over these past years, and now we can…

Paul Denning confirms Suzuki in MotoGP in 2011

6 April, 2020
One of the biggest worries that is afflicting Dorna’s CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta is that Suzuki may decide to do what Kawasaki did at the end of 2008, and pull out of MotoGP before their contract is actually up in 2011.Suzuki…

Valentino Rossi to race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans?

6 April, 2020
That 9 times motorcyle World Champion Valentino Rossi has the car racing bug is a well known fact and the Italian rider after taking part in the 6 Ore di Vallelunga endurance race, may also take part in one the…