BIAGGI: GAME, SET AND MATCH

By Michael EsdaileMASAMILIANO 'Max' Biaggi goes by the sobriquet 'Roman Emperor', but apart from a few flashes of brilliance since he joined the Superbike World Championship in 2007, he has not looked very imperious at all.Then last year he signed up with Aprilia, the company with...

BIAGGI WINS RACE ONE IN USA

ALITALIA Aprilia rider Max Biaggi won the first race at round seven of the HANNspree Superbike World Championship at Miller Motorsports Park, Utah on May 31 after battlingto stay with with pole sitter Carlos Checa up until lap 19, at which point the Spaniard retired with an electical...

CHECA PUTS ALTHEA DUCATI ON POLE

ARE WE set for a repeat of 2008 at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah, host of round seven of the 2010 HANNspree Superbike World Championship?Two years ago Spaniard Carlos Checa put the Ten Kate Honda CBR1000RR on pole, then took off to win both races next day.This year Checa has put...

EURO PRIZE FOR BIKE BUILDING

THIS just in from Australian web site gizmag ( http://www.gizmag.com ): a challenge has been issued to university teams from around the world to design and build a high speed road-racing motorcycle from scratch, with an eye towards cost-effective production.The contest is being organised by the Moto Engineering Foundation (MEF) - http://www.motostudent.com/. It supplies each team with a 125cc two-stroke engine, suspension, brakes, tyres, wheels...

2010 AMA HANGTOWN RECAP - VIDEO

AMA Motocross At Hangtown 2010 (250 Class) Highlights - from SpeedAMA Motocross At Hangtown 2010 (450 Class) Highlights - from Sp...

JOIN KR GP TOUR TO PHILLIP ISLAND

ONCE again, Kiwi Rider is running a tour to the Australian round of the MotoGP world championship at Phillip Island.We have been running tours to Phillip Island since 1995. Our first tours were for the Superbike World Championship events there, then in 2004 we added a MotoGP tour...

ESPARGARO TOPS 125GP

ONCE again it was an all-Spanish podium after the 125GP at Le Mans on Sunday, Pol Espargaró (Tuenti Racing Derbi) taking victory with a fantastic ride in the 125cc race, edging out Nico Terol for the victory and narrowing his rival’s lead at the top of the World Championship standings...

ELIAS AGAIN IN MOTO2!

SPANIARD Toni Elias kept his head, rode forcefully on his Gresini Racing Moriwaki, and scored his second win of the year in the new Moto2 class at Le Mans on Sunday. In the process he opened up an 18-point lead at the top of the Moto2 World Championship. He led home Julián Simón...

LORENZO WINS AGAIN

FIAT Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo won the French MotoGP on Sunday to extend his championship lead while Casey Stoner, Ben Spies and Loris Capirossi crashed out.Stoner started from the front of the second row of the grid, was passed by Marlboro Ducati team-mate Nicky Hayden in the first...

SPIES, KALLIO & BAUTISTA HURT

TEXAN Ben Spies, Finn Mika Kalio and Spaniard Alvaro Bautista were all injured during practice for the May 23 Monster Energy Grand Prix de France.Bautista was the worst affect, and will not start the MotoGP race, leaving Loris Capirossi as the sole Suzuki rider on the grid.Bautista...

NOYES HAS MOTO2 POLE

AMERICAN Kenny Noyes, who was a front-runner for a big part of the Moto2 race at Jerez, rode a storming qualifying session to take pole position for Sunday’s race, posting a best lap of 1m 39.234s to put his Promoharris machine team at the head of the grid.That was 0.432 seconds...

ROSSI UNDER 2005 LAP RECORD

VALENTINO Rossi's demand for a faster Yamaha seems to have been rewarded. In qualifying at Le Mans for the Monster Energy Grand Prix de France, the Italian rocketted through the speed trap at 290 km/h with the fastest bike on the track. Quite a turn around from a few weeks ago...

RUMOURS SWIRL AROUND MV AGUSTA

IT HAS been reported by Italian newspaper Il Sol 24 Ore that former Ducati CEO, Federico Minoli, has 34+ million euros in private equity financing behind him for an offer to Harley-Davidson for MV Agusta.The 34 million euros quoted, if accepted, would mean Harley-Davidson would still lose out on its investment in the iconic Italian brand. The high-rollers at the American company paid $US109 million to buy MV with $US70 million of that going towards...

MOTO MORINI OFFER REJECTED

PAULO Berlusconi, brother of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlsconi, has had his offer to buy troubled Italian manufactuer Moto Morini turned down by trade union representives after a meeting on May 18.It had earlier been reported that Paulo Berlusconi had offered 2.9 million euros...

2011 TRIUMPH SPRINT GT

* New sports tourer from Triumph offers performance and practicality * 130bhp version of Triumph's iconic 1050cc triple* Up to 117 litres of hard luggage capacity with accessory topbox* Anti-lock braking system comes as standardFive years after the introduction of the popular 1050cc...

BMW REVEALS GS ANNIVERSARY MODELS

In 2010 a fully-fledged, all-round motorcycle concept is celebrating a major birthday: thirty years of the BMW GS.Back then, in autumn 1980 BMW Motorrad introduced the R 80 G/S as a very special machine combining two very special worlds with one another: off-road and on-road. Offering...

HASLAM STRETCHES LEAD AT KYALAMI

By MICHAEL ESDAILEALSTARE Suzuki's Leon Haslam showed tremendous maturity in the face of incredible pressure in round six of the 2010 HANNspreee Superbike World Championship at South Africa's Kyalami Raceway on May 16 to gain a buffer over Alitalia Aprilia's Max Biaggi at the top...