“I was going to make it…or I wasn’t,” was how King Kenny Roberts summed up one of his Grand Prix…
Jonathan Rea will spend another two years at the Kawasaki Racing Team garage, in the World Superbike Championship paddock, with the British rider signing a two-year contract with the factory Kawasaki team this week. The news is perhaps not a surprise to the WorldSBK loyal, but Rea’s continuance with Kawasaki was by no means a sure thing, with the now three-time World Superbike champion having several competing offers in the paddock, as well as links to rides in the MotoGP Championship. Choosing to stay at Kawasaki, and likely add more race-wins and championship titles to his record in the process, Rea continues the unstoppable force that is himself and the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10RR.
The return of WorldSBK to the Czech Republic proved to be a race weekend to remember. Tensions between Jonathan Rea…
Joan Mir is to move up to MotoGP next year, and will be racing in the factory ECSTAR Suzuki team,…
Out riding bikes, because that’s what we do, for this edition of “Gone Riding” it is the last three letters…
The concept of an auto-clutch is nothing new, and for dirt bike riders, products like those produced by Rekluse are virtually common place. But, on the sport bike side of things, the use and adoption of this technology is still relatively young. We have seen scooters and other small-displacement machines use continuously variable transmission (CVT) technology before, and Honda is currently proudly touting its dual-clutch transmission (DCT) on several of its models, the latest being the new Honda Gold Wing, but what about the rest of the market? Today we see that MV Agusta is the first brand to strike back in this space, debuting its “Smart Clutch System” (SCS) – an automatic clutch designed with sport bikes in mind, making it an option on the marque’s MV Agusta Turismo Veloce Lusso sport-tourer.
MotoGP Qualifying Results from the Australian GP at Phillip Island, Australia
The FIM’s preliminary report on the safety concerning the Twin Rings Circuit at Motegi was announced after the conclusion of…
