Just now getting bikes to dealers, Harley-Davidson has stopped production on the LiveWire electric bike because of charging concerns.
Ducati has just teased out the basic specs of the upcoming Streetfighter V4. How does over 200hp and 392 lbs dry sound to you?
LCR Honda has confirmed that Takaaki Nakagami will continue to ride with the team for the 2020 season, but he will miss the last three races of 2019.
Another excellent show from the Paddock Pass Podcast. In this one, David and Neil discuss the Thai GP at Buriram, as well as Marc Marquez’s world title and the rise of Fabio Quartararo.
Before the start of Race 1 at Argentina, roughly 90% of the WorldSBK riders said they would not race because of the poor track conditions.
Adventure-touring riders have two new reasons to consider Dunlop tires when it comes time to look for new shoes for their steeds.
From one presentation to another. Having the Movistar Yamaha and Ducati Factory team launches on consecutive days made it a little too easy to make comparisons between the two. There was much complaining on social media about the fact that large parts of the Yamaha presentation were in Spanish only, causing the international audience watching the live streaming to lose interest. Ducati’s approach was better: while everything in the presentation was in Italian, there was simultaneous translation available on the live stream, so those following could hear it in English. That was no good to us in the hall, of course, though we would find out later that there had been headsets available with the live translation available. But nobody had thought to tell us about that, of course.
The news that Dorna had been handed control over the World Superbike series struck terror into the hearts of WSBK fans around the globe. The fear was Dorna would use its position of controlling both World Superbikes and MotoGP to widen the technical gap between the two series in an attempt to cut costs. With Dorna having so often complained that World Superbikes was encroaching on MotoGP territory, and with MotoGP’s technical regulations becoming ever more restrictive, the logical step would appear to be to severely restrict the level of machinery used in WSBK.
