Davide Brivio talks about how the coronavirus has changed the MotoGP paddock.
Android Auto is finally coming to the motorcycle industry – first with the Harley-Davidson touring motorcycles, and now with the Honda Gold Wing.
After getting feedback from brand loyalists, MV Agusta has updated the color choices available for the base model Superveloce 800.
This concept for a future Ducati Scrambler model landed an ArtCenter student an internship with the Ducati Design Center in Italy.
How serious is Kawasaki about making an electric motorcycle in the near-future?
Bad news from iconic the salt flats of Utah, as the 2020 Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials have been canceled because of coronavirus concerns.
It is hard to envision a worse time to lose a rider for the season. Jonas Folger’s announcement that he was withdrawing from the 2018 MotoGP season to focus on his health was a hammer blow for the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team. Just weeks before the start of testing for the new season, and long after riders good enough to race in MotoGP have signed contracts, Tech 3 team boss Hervé Poncharal is left looking for a replacement. It is a massive task, especially as Poncharal is refusing to break any contracts to take a rider. “You would be amazed to hear how many phone calls I have had, and who from,” he told us. “There were some interesting names, honestly, but priority for me, the basis for me is that I will never take or enter into any kind of discussion with someone who has a contract.”
A day doesn’t go by where someone takes to the internet to vent their frustrations, and even lash out at another person. Removed from physical confrontation, and mixed in with a layer anonymity, services like Twitter show mankind’s great disposition to becoming an asshole, 140 characters at a time. With all that has occurred in the past, and the previous paragraph said, it should then come as little surprise then that before it was promptly deleted, the following was tweeted from Spies’s official Twitter account, “Off to surgery tomorrow! Bet Carlo is so excited he wont remember to wipe the powder off his nose.” With the incident reaching tabloid levels in Italy, I have little interest in exploring the he-said-she-said nature of this story.
