Video: stunt or crash?
After this crash it’s a wonder this rider can go on to ride his bike! Whether a stuntman or a fake video, I think this guy is really lucky.
Triumph LSL T Clubman 860R Special: Thruxton tuning for a cafè racer
German company Krefelder LSL is particularly specialised in tuning Triumphs and has created a new cafè racer called T Clubman 860R based on the Triumph Thruxton. Updates have been made to the paint work, handle bars, lights, and wheels (17-inch…
Brolly girls rule the paddock at Jerez GP
It’s been some time since we published a gallery of MotoGP’s finest looking paddock and grid girls, and since the race at the Spanish GP was hot in more ways than one, we’ve decided to give a chance to look…
A future BMW electric scooter?
In reports from the Soloscooter site, it looks like BMW might be introducing an electric scooter to the market as early as 2011. This is after reports last year of BMW working on a Rotax-powered scooter.Piaggio has just released its…
Alfa Spider – new photos
Alfa Romeo has announced the news for Geneva. We have already talked about the world premieres for the Alfa Spider and 159 Sportwagon.Today we show the first official photos of the new Spider with the roof closed, and the “big”…
Confirmed! Valentino Rossi will Try to Ride at Sachsenring
Well it looks like that the Italian websites were right on target. Valentino Rossi has confirmed that he plans to return to action at the upcoming Sachsenring GP.The 9 times World Champion who broke his right tibia and fibula six…
Ford Ka II: production commences
From the Polish facility at Tychy, where the Fiat Panda and Fiat 500 are manufactured, the first example of the second generation of the Ford Ka has emerged (seen here with the lovely Olga Kuruylenko). With the new small car,…
Casey Stoner: I had to disconnect from racing
Casey Stoner’s decision not to contest three races left fans not only wondering when he would be back and as speculation ran wild like bush fire, if he would be pulling out of racing altogether, but everyone close to the…
Kawasaki WSBK team to test at Almeria
With the official winter testing ban now finally over - it ended January 15th - three World Superbike teams (Kawasaki, Fixi Crescent Suzuki and Althea Aprilia) will be heading to the Almeria circuit in Spain tomorrow for two-days of private…
Casey Stoner sets blistering pace in FP3 at Phillip Island
Stoner’s Corner? They should change Phillip Island’s entire name to Casey Stoner’s Island - at least when MotoGP is in town - as the Repsol Honda rider again utterly dominated the session during this morning’s third and final practice. Stoner…
John Hopkins has ring finger amputated
John Hopkins MotoGP free practice crash at Brno last August has ultimately cost him his ring finger. The Crescent Suzuki rider who has suffered through six surgeries and months of rehab to cure the damaged finger had to capitulate and…
Marc Marquez discharged from hospital, Valencia in doubt?
Marc Marquez was not able to compete in last Sunday’s Moto2 race at Sepang after being judged unfit following his highside during the first free practice, which was caused by a wet patch at turn 10 that the marshals failed…
WSBK Assen Race 1: Britannia Rules as Jonathan Rea Brings it Home
Race 1 at Assen was a real corker that saw an all British podium with Hannspree Ten Kate Honda’s Jonathan Rea winning his first World Superbike race. The 23-year-old from Ulster took the lead from Troy Corser on lap 11…
Gino Rea to start 2013 Moto2 wildcard campaign at Le Mans
Gino Rea had received the green light from Dorna and IRTA which would have allowed him to enter how many rounds he wished to in 2013, and he was set to start his wildcard campaign at Jerez on May 5th…
Bill Gates invests in two-stroke engines
Microsoft head Bill Gates has invested a whopping $23.5 million US in engine producer EcoMotors International. The company is a start-up company who is working on research and development of environmentally-friendly engine technology. One of EcoMotors main projects is the…
Coriano to erect a statue in honor of Marco Simoncelli
Coriano, Marco Simoncelli’s small home town has decided to dedicate a statue to the late GP rider “to keep alive the memory of the great motorcycle champion who died tragically on Sunday October 23rd during the Malaysian GP, a memorial…
Nicky Hayden Shows Us the Ducati GP10
You’ve just got to love the innocence of Nicky Hayden, most manufacturers try to keep, be it new models of cars or motorcycles, under tight wraps until the official unveiling where they can get oohs and ahhs of the press…
General Motors EN-V electric urban vehicles pics and video
We’re going to call these General Motors EN-V concepts scooters, for want of a better word. Developed in collaboration with the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation, the concepts are a vision for new urban mobility vehicles, which were developed with help…
Jorge Lorenzo has potential for improvement, while Ben Spies rues cold tire crash
HRC’s Shuhei Nakamoto may have been joking when he said “that the overall package” of the Yamaha is currently better, but he didn’t expect that his team would be facing not only the likes of factory riders Jorge Lorenzo and…
More Photos from MotoGP test at Valencia
After yesterday’s small gallery of photos from the MotoGP Valencia test, with Valentino Rossi’s photos dominating the day, we’ve got another gallery from yesterday’s first day of testing but this time we’ve got pics of Ben Spies on the 2011…
World Superbikes to head to Russia
Infront Motor Sport just one upped Dorna as they have announced that the World Superbike Championship will be heading to Russia as soon as 2012.The partnership agreement was reached between Paolo Flamini’s Infront Motor Sports and Yakhnich Motorsport who is…
WSBK Aragon: FP1 goes to Marco Melandri
The World Superbike championship is debuting for the first time at the Motorland Aragon circuit for its seventh round and during the first free practice the fastest rider on the circuit wasn’t Carlos Checa as we expected, but Marco Melandri.Melandri…
Bajaj raises stake in KTM
The KTM-Bajaj project has seen the Indian company slowly acquire more KTM stock over time, with a recent 1.21 percent acquisition taking it to a total of 39.3 percent ownership of KTM stock. Majority shareholder CROSS has a 50.1 percent…
HIRP 2008: Starting 25 April
After 150 applications and 90 riders on the track, only 24 made it. With trials having been conducted on the Aprilia track on the 12th and 13th of March, the Honda Italia Racing Project 2008 is officially taking shape. The…
GSR Kawasaki Wins 24 Hours Of Le Mans
It took them eleven long years but Kawasaki finally got back on the top of the podium in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans with Julien da Costa, Olivier Four and GrĂ©gory Leblanc of GSR Kawasaki taking the first…