The legendary Mick Doohan will be riding at the Isle of Man this year. Doohan, a 5-time GP World Champion, will take a lap around the mountain course alongside Ian Hutchinson. Doohan is one of the most successful riders in GP history. Doohan won five consecutive World Championships from 1994 to 1998. Only Valentino Rossi [...]
It’s been a little while since Chris Vermeulen has been on a competitive motorcycle. Vermeulen tried to make his return at the opening round of the 2011 World Superbike season, but didn’t feel like he was fit enough to compete. Now that another month has gone by, Vermeulen says that he is ready for action. [...]
Gino Rea will be racing at in the World Supersport race at Donington Park this weekend despite a thumb injury. Rea tore the tendon in his thumb during the Phillip Island event. “On Monday after the Phillip Island race my hand and mainly thumb were pretty swollen, we drove up to Melbourne to see a [...]
Ducati North America is excited to declare March 25th as “Diavel Night”, an evening where showrooms across North America will host welcome events for the 2011 Ducati Diavel. As the latest arrival in Ducati’s 2011 lineup, dealers will be throwing out all the stops with red carpet events to welcome the Diavel in style. Motorcyclists are encouraged to [...]
Harley-Davidson hasn’t been impacted by the Japan earthquake nearly as much as motorcycle manufacturers like Honda and Kawasaki, but the Harley-Davidson Foundation is still stepping up to help the Japanese relief effort. The Harley-Davidson Foundation announced today that it was making a $250,000 donation to Japan. Harley’s donation will go to the Red Cross and [...]
Attendance for this year’s Daytona 200, like every year, was crap. I might have been able to start a flag football team with the amount people in the stands. This is one place where the AMA bites it hard. They should try and get off the self righteous AMA bandwagon and make the races about [...]
Last weekend, Taylor Bayne became the youngest driver to win the Daytona 500. At just 20-years-old, Bayne beat out Carl Edwards, David Gilliland, and Bobby Labonte to take a historic win at Daytona. In light of Bayne’s spectacular feat, here is a look at some of the youngest motorcycle champions in the history of racing. [...]
Team Suzuki Alstare’s Michel Fabrizio is looking forward to this weekend’s World Superbike Championship second round at Donington Park in England, as last time he raced at the circuit in 2009, he finished on the podium. The 4.023 kilometer (2.49 mile) circuit has been slightly revamped since 2009, but remains essentially a flowing circuit, with [...]
The 2011 XDL series, the sportbike freestyle competition, kicked off in Daytona Florida during the 70th annual Daytona Bike Week. Nick Apex won the event, and was joined on the podium by Bill Dixon and Luke “Duke” Emmons. The XDL in Daytona featured the first round of the FMF Cup, but it also had various [...]
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