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Sexy bikers: 60 years of Vespa girls

27 March, 2020
Vespa might not be the brand that first springs to mind on thinking of sexy bikers, but there’s a bevvy of sexy Vespa girls doing their thing for the Vespa image. Check out this video from SoloMoto30 and its collection…

Crazy Art Helmets

27 March, 2020
Maybe AGV Helmets and Aldo Drudi could take a look at a couple of these helmets and give a couple of ideas to Valentino Rossi.Art Helmets

Video: Motorcycle racer feigns fainting after crash

27 March, 2020
If you’ve ever seen a soccer match, you’ve see even million dollar players dive to the turf and begin holding their leg or foot and scream bloody hell or grimace in pain only to bounce back a couple minutes later…

Arrow parts for Suzuki GSX-R 600 and 750

27 March, 2020
New Arrow special parts exhausts and mufflers are available for the 2011 Suzuki GSX-R 600 and 750 models. The supersports bikes can now come with six different Arrow silencers with materials ranging from titanium to stainless steel, carbonfibre and aluminium.All…

Why was Ben Spies wearing Colin Edwards Helmet?

27 March, 2020
After the computer theft from the Aspar team garage that occured at Sepang, there was another small mystery in the paddock surrounding Ben Spies’ helmet. The Texas Terror usually wears a HJC FC-15 lid, but on Thursday Spies was sporting…

Repsol Honda riders have chatter issues in Qatar

27 March, 2020
The chatter issues that plagued the Repsol Honda riders during the pre-season tests in Sepang, but not at the IRTA test at Jerez came back with a vengeance during tonight’s first free practice session in Qatar.Casey Stoner despite his chatter…

Chris Vermeulen talks about Catalunya FP1

27 March, 2020
Chris Vermeulen talks about today’s free practice and about Bridgestone’s asymmetric slick rear tires they’re using this for this particular circuit. Vermeulen finished 13th and only 17th in terms of top speed. It would been interesting to know if the…

Jonathan Rea bags victory in Race 1 at Imola

27 March, 2020
The new electronics that Jonathan Rea’s Castrol Honda is sporting, may have helped him in today’s race 1 at Imola, but it was all the Northern Irishman’s talent and determination that let him keep a faster and reborn Noriyuki Haga…

More Pics of Rossi, Hayden and the Ducati GP11

27 March, 2020
Filippo Preziosi (preziosi btw means precious in Italian) has called the GP11 in these pics ’step zero’ because as he said during yesterday’s press conference “it represents the initial level from which we plan to evolve.” So that could mean…

Aprilia RS 125, Bike of the year 2008

27 March, 2020
For the second year in a row the Aprilia RS 125 has been voted as Bike of the Year according to the Italian magazine, In Moto. The RS 125 was preferred by 94,000 readers to the Cagiva Mito and the…

Nicky Hayden: official Ducati MotoGP rider

27 March, 2020
In a press release from today, the Ducati Marlboro MotoGP team announced the latest news about Nicky Hayden: the 27-year-old Kentucky kid will join the Ducati factory team in 2009 like we all expected already. Nicky and Casey will ride…

Ducati Multistrada 1200 tutorial videos

27 March, 2020
The Ducati Multistrada 1200 is gradually earning kudos in biking circles as press testing gets underway (see the Multistrada vs BMW R1200GS test from MCN for example), and it will be interesting in the future to see how the market…

Video: Subaru BRZ

27 March, 2020
Official video featuring the new Subaru BRZ premiered at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. The small Japanese sportscar - and sister of the Toyota GT 86 – is pushed by a four-cylinder boxer engine, with D4-S injection system, capable of…

Smart ForTwo II preview

27 March, 2020
While waiting for the official announcement, here are some more images of the Smart ForTwo vintage 2007, very official-seeming.Still waiting for the official announcement, with all the official data and interior photos. More on the ForTwo 2007 here.

Ducati GP11 testing underway at Jerez

27 March, 2020
Ducati has taken their two test teams to Jerez de la Frontera, which also includes team manager Vittoriano Guareschi who took off his official cap to don his rider’s helmet again, to help Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden in their…

Ben Spies and Andrea Iannone fighting to regain fitness

27 March, 2020
Pramac’s Andrea Iannone and Ben Spies may be smiling in this picture at the 2013 Wrooom, but the two riders are still fighting to regain fitness ahead of the first official MotoGP test at Sepang early next month.The MotoGP rookie…

Andrea Iannone to sit out Laguna Seca round

27 March, 2020
Pramac’s Andrea Iannone will be forced to skip this upcoming MotoGP round at Laguna Seca.The MotoGP rookie crashed his Ducati GP13 during the fourth free practice at Sachsenring, dislocating his right shoulder.The Clinica Mobile fixed the shoulder, but he was…

WSBK or BSB for Ben Bostrom?

27 March, 2020
According to superbikeplanet.com the highly popular Ben Bostrom is open for a return to Europe to race next season.Since Bostrom will not be riding for Jordan Suzuki’s DMG/AMA team in 2013, the American rider could find a ride in World…

Eugene Laverty fastest in final free practice at Monza

27 March, 2020
The final free practice at Monza finally saw a completely dry track which allowed the riders to work on setup after all the previous sessions that were either wet or very damp.With a dry track Eugene Laverty was the fastest…

MotoGP hits the streets of Vienna

27 March, 2020
Austrian national broadcasters ATV organized a promo event yesterday for the neighbouring AB Czech Republic Grand Prix at Brno, with several Gran Prix riders hitting the streets of Vienna for a ride down the famous Ringstreet of the Viennese capital…

Robertino Pietri to wild card in MotoGP for Avintia Racing

27 March, 2020
After spending two seasons with Italtrans in Moto2 (and picking up a single point), 26-year old Robertino Pietri will be making the leap to the premier class after reaching an agreement with CRT Avintia Racing (formerly known as BQR) to…

Yamaha T-Max gets 50th anniversary GP livery paint job

27 March, 2020
Yamaha revealed the other day the special paint job that all their MotoGP team will be using for the Assen and Laguna Seca rounds to celebrate their 50th anniversary of GP racing.Not stopping at that, the manufacturer has also launched…