It seemed John Hopkins’s return to MotoGP was well underway, as reports earlier this year said the Anglo-American would be…
MotoGP was under the lights of the Losail International Circuit out here in Qatar on Sunday night. With the weather…
We’re live here in Doha for the next 10 days, covering the last pre-season MotoGP test and the Qatar GP.…
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksdBSVAM6g Here’s a video that was sent to us that we think sums up fairly well why we ride motorcycles.…
Despite rain early in the weekend, the weather was clear and sunny for the running of the 2011 Daytona 200. The historically important race featured entries from the AMA Pro Racing Daytona Sportbike class, as it was decided a few years ago that the Superbikes were traveling at too dangerous of speeds through the turns and onto the banking of the Daytona International Speedway. However these concerns seemed to be overshadowed by the issues 2011, as the race distance was ultimately not to be 200 miles, as the day’s race saw a mid-race red flag for safety issues regarding the Dunlop front tires forcing a long delay, a second red flag with a multi-rider crash on the restart, and a third red flag caused by a crash at the checkered flag.
While here in The United States of America the buzz is all about the new Motus MST sport-tourer and the Erik Buell Racing 1190RS sportbike, in Germany the talk of the town is the new Horex VR6 street bike, which began its road testing today. Horex released a photo of the supercharged 200+hp 1,200cc machine testing on a closed circuit, with Hennes Fischer, the man in charge of the VR6’s development, stating that “in this phase of the test series we mainly wanted to determine whether the current suspension configuration, basic geometry and engine tuning are correctly matched. It’s a big step from computer calculations and engine tuning on the dynamometer to a perfectly functioning bike.”