After three years learning the ropes in the British Superbike Championship, Northern Ireland-based Relentless Suzuki by TAS Racing is now ready to fight for the 2011 Championship title, with hard-charging Australian Josh Brookes. Brookes finished runner-up in last season’s BSB series, but since arriving at his new base in Northern Ireland in March, the former [...]
During yesterday’s final free practice session for the MotoGP, Alvaro Bautista took a hard fall and broke his left femur. Bautista is now recovering in the Hamad Medical Corporation Hospital in Doha, Losail, after having successful surgery. Bautista was taken to the hospital after tests on the track showed that he had fractured his thigh [...]
Over the weekend, Suzuki recalled more than 73,000 motorcycles. Suzuki says that there is a circuit board issues on various Suzuki models. Suzuki is recalling 73,426 motorcycles that were manufactured between July 2007 and September 2009. Suzuki is fixing all recalled motorcycles free of charge. Suzuki reports that the problem is due to insufficient adhesion [...]
There is a lot of pressure resting on the shoulders of Alvaro Bautista. Bautista will be the sole rider for the Rizla Suzuki team during the 2011 MotoGP season, but he believes that the situation will work to his advantage. “I think being the only rider is positive on the whole,” Bautista said. “Because Suzuki [...]
John Hopkins will be back for a full racing season in 2011, and he will be doing it with the Crescent Suzuki team in the British Superbike series. Hopkins sat out most of last season to have corrective wrist surgery, but made a late season come back in the American Superbike series. Hopkins is now [...]
Josh Waters will be racing with the Yoshimura Suzuki team for the World Superbike opener on February 25th. The 2009 Australian Superbike champion was handpicked by Yoshimura Japan President Fujio Yoshimura to open the World Superbike season for the Suzuki team. “We are extremely excited to have Josh on board,” said Yoshimura. “He is a [...]
Top Gear Live is a touring show which includes a special live broadcast of the world-famous BBC gear-head show Top Gear and what is usually a Motor Show consisting of only four-wheeled machines. The 2010/2011 event, though, will feature a motorcycle which will look just right alongside the many high-performance supercars on display at the [...]
Disney has slated release of TRON: Legacy for December 2010, with the return of Tron we can also expect to see the light cycles in the new movie, the exciting two wheeled vehicles that race through the computer landscape. Suzuki has rolled out a concept vehicle, the Crosscage, at the 2010 Tokyo Motor Show that [...]
Chances are that if you attended a motorcycle safety instruction class – from such great organizations as the MSF or Team Oregon – you experienced the thrill of riding a motorcycle with less than 250cc in displacement. It might not be a perfect mount for you, but you likely do know a rider new to [...]
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