Automotive

Valentino Rossi sends another stinger to Ducati after Assen qualifying

22 March, 2020

Valentino Rossi ended up 10th in today’s qualifying at Assen and he was again more than 1.3 seconds from the top of the timesheets and what’s worse he ended up again behind his team mate Nicky Hayden who was more…

Lambretta Pato italian commercial

22 March, 2020

We have found on Youtube the Lambretta Pato italian commercial. The blond girl is Valeria Marini.Blogdolcevita has found an Lambretta 150 Special commercial. From “Carosello” Gigliola Cinquetti perform “Sooner or later you will call”.From ‘60 an old commercial called “Carosello”…

Robbie Maddison Does It Again

22 March, 2020

Robbie “Maddo” Maddison the Aussie daredevil did it again. In the Red Bull New Year No Limits Event Robbie Maddison said hello to 2009 by climbing on his Yamaha motocross bike, launching up a ramp and flying vertically almost straight…

Davide Brivio says Valentino Rossi is not stopping

22 March, 2020

We all saw the despair on Valentino Rossi’s face yesterday at Sepang and some were speculating that the Italian would not take part in the upcoming season finale at Valencia, or that that he would actually retire from racing following…

Casey Stoner Fishing at Top End

22 March, 2020

When Casey Stoner withdrew from three MotoGP races due to a mysterious fatigue illness, a lot of things have been written, some true and some was downright speculation, but it’s nice to see Stoner smiling and feeling better and looking…

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…