With the help of Zach Osborne and Eugene Laverty, the Paddock Pass Podcast gets a little dirty, making a preview of the 2021 Supercross season.
For the first time in nine years, BMW Motorrad is posting a drop in its worldwide sales, with motorcycle sales down 3.4% in 2020 because of the coronavirus.
Ducati motorcycle sales dropped 9.7% worldwide in 2020, though it still had the best second-half of the year ever in the company’s history.
The Triumph Speed Triple is headed for an update in 2021, as the Brits have started teasing the release of the Triumph Speed Triple 1200 RS motorcycle.
The coronavirus continues to play havoc on MotoGP’s race schedule.
Left to do his own repairs, Toby Price was forced to fix a flat tire with zip-ties & duct tape…and he still finished Stage 8 in the Dakar Rally in second.
Thursday’s pre-event rider meetings at the Italian GP proved to have some interesting MotoGP topics.
Dorna has revealed the pricing for its online video pass for the World Superbike Championship. The price for a full season of coverage via the WorldSBK.com website is to cost €69.90, or around US $95. Included in the price is live access to all World Superbike races, as well as the ability to play them on demand after the race is over. There will also be access to a highlights package of each race, and rider interviews, and exclusive features. There is also an archive of race and season reviews going back to 1993. The online package is very similar to the one offered by Dorna for the MotoGP.com website, with suitably revised pricing.
We already know that Troy Bayliss will be making another return to racing this year, taking on five one-mile events on the AMA Pro Grand National Series. We also knew that Bayliss would be on a Lloyd Brothers Motorsports Ducati race bike, continuing the Australian’s link to the Italian brand. Ducati has given us a glimpse of that flat-tracking machine, and to our surprise, it seems the folks in Bologna are looking to get some more marketing mileage out of the partnership, as Troy’s race bike is a spitting image of the Ducati Scrambler Full Throttle. Of course, Bayliss will compete with an 1,100cc air-cooled machine, in lieu of the Scrambler’s 803cc v-twin engine. The race bike will feature a custom-built chassis, and of course 19″ flat track wheels.
