With yesterday’s race out of the way, MotoGP’s riders spent their Monday back at the Cardion AB circuit in Brno,…
The weather continued to shine on Brno for the Czech GP (we’ll see if it holds off for Monday’s 1,000…
We just got a phone call from Richard Hatfield of Lightning Motorcycles saying that the “Flying Banana Mk. II” just put down a 205.238 mph pass at the Southern California Timing Associations’ Speed Week at Bonneville. This pass makes Lightning the first electric motorcycle manufacturer/competitor ever to break the 200 mph mark, whether it be on the tarmac or at the salt flats. If verified during tomorrow’s second pass, the speed would shatter the outright land speed record of 176.434mph, which was set by Riches Nelson and his fully-streamlined Airtech Lightning Bolt electric motorcycle.
After a soggy Free Practice 3, the sun in Brno came out and helped dry the Czech circuit in-time for…
Husqvarna’s foray into true-blue street bikes has unsurprisingly taken a two-pronged approach, as the Swedish brand has unceremoniously dropped photos of the base model Husqvarna Nuda 900. Sporting lower-spec components, and having a noticeably absent “R” missing from its nomenclature, the Husqvarna Nuda 900 is no doubt going to be Husqvarna’s more affordable version of the Nuda 900R. Though we can only discern the differences that are skin deep at this point in time, it would look like the base model sees the R’s Öhlins rear-suspension, Brembo monoblocs, and carbon-accented exhaust exchanged for lesser models.
The rumormill regarding whether Repsol Honda’s three rider-team will endure for the 2012 MotoGP season has been in full-swing lately,…