Tech 3 is to remain a Yamaha satellite team for two more years. Ahead of the Misano round of MotoGP,…
Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” finishes with the iconic lines that “two roads diverged in a wood, and…
In case you missed the news, the folks in Bologna have debuted their new “supermid” sport bike, the eagerly anticipated 2014 Ducati 899 Panigale. Like its larger sibling, the Ducati 1199 Panigale, the 899 features a “frameless” chassis design, a suite of electronic rider aids, as well as the new 148hp Superquadro engine. Putting together a little video to help launch the machine, we figured Ducati fans and non-Ducatisti alike would enjoy the premise of this short clip, as Ducati’s test rider is portrayed as being unable to end his day with the Babigale — hopping back on the bike for one more romp. What a tough job he must have.
The 2013 Moto2 rider line up is proving to be rather fluid. The latest in a series of changes to…
Tim and I are sportbikers through and through, having cut our riding teeth on the canyon roads that are just…
Though Ducati have told Nicky Hayden that there is no room for him in its factory MotoGP team, it is no secret that they would like to keep him within the Ducati family. Hayden has been a great ambassador for Ducati in the US during his four and a half year tenure at the Italian factory. So Ducati are doing all they can to persuade Hayden to move to World Superbikes, and take on the challenge of racing the Ducati 1199 Panigale R. To that end, Hayden rode the World Superbike-spec version of the bike at Mugello last week, to assess what he was getting into before making a decision.