Last Saturday was Kawasaki’s 125th birthday, and to celebrate the Japanese brand brought some iconic liveries back to life for its WorldSBK team.
Microgravity, huge moon dust dunes, and where no man has roosted before…off-world motorcycling is still a bit sci-fi, but for how much longer?
Keeping to its bi-weekly schedule, Ducati’s next installment was not only on-time, but also in the wheelhouse of what we were expecting.
It looks like Honda is getting ready to debut a new sport-tourer based off its Africa Twin ADV bike. Look for it to drop on October 21st.
The latest from the Paddock Pass Podcast crew see us looking at the last two rounds in the WorldSBK Championship. Give it a listen!
Our Bothan spies have found that a KTM 1290 Super Duke R EVO is coming for the 2022 model year, and it is bringing semi-active suspension with it.
A bonus episode from the Paddock Pass Podcast, Ducati MotoGP riders Jack Miller and Pecco Bagnaia join the show to discuss the upcoming season.
A return to World Superbike, with the bike that he came so close to winning the championship on – it all appeared like a dream opportunity for Eugene Laverty, to put himself into a position to win the title. The dream quickly turned to a nightmare, and from the start of winter testing it was clear that major work needed to be done to return the RSV4 to the front. Moving to the Milwaukee Aprilia squad understandably led to heightened expectations. In their second year in WorldSBK, the former British Superbike champions were expected to make a leap forward. Teething problems were expected with the switch from BMW to Aprilia, but not the struggles that lay ahead. “During the winter you can go in the wrong direction with the bike,” commented Laverty. “Unfortunately, that was the case for us.”
