IOMTT: 100 mph Barrier Remains after TT Zero

The second running of the TT Zero at the Isle of Man TT, made for the Isle’s third electric racing occasion on the Manx island. With 2011 being the 100th year of the Isle of Man TT running over the fabled Mountain Course, all eyes were focused to see if the fitting 100 mph barrier would drop as the electrics made their race today. Heavily favored were the bikes from the Segway MotoCzysz Racing team, ...

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Bruno Bertacchini Silvano Bertarelli Albert Bertholet Guy Bertin

2011 Season Kicks Off

Qatar in March is an oddity. A race in the cooler evening air, floodlit. If that’s not different enough for you, throw in a covering of sand which makes any excursion from the thin, black racing line an adventure in optimism or blind faith depending on the rider. So Qatar is not a good race to [...]

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Alain Barbaroux Hector BarberĆ” Fabio Barchitta Alan Barnett

Four Images Reveal More About the New Suzuki Middleweight Adventure Bike

Rumors are still fuzzy on the upcoming release of a new middleweight Suzuki adventure bike, with there being some debate as to whether the V-Strom replacement will be a 650cc, 1000cc, or perhaps even an 800cc machine. Suzuki is pushing the adventure statement hard, which to us means that this new bike will be more off-road capable than the current V-Strom, which to us has always seemed like a sport-tourer duped into doing something it wasn’t ...

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Jarno Boesveld Jean Paul Boinet Karel Bojer Juan Bolart

Three Top Motorcycle Sports For 2011

Motorcycle sports are thrilling spectacles to watch and exhilarating events to take part in. The first petrol-fuelled, internal combustion motorbike was made in 1885 by German designers Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach. The evolution of motorcycles in the 125 years between then and now has been huge and there are a variety of sports that make use of these developments, and which

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Takuma Aoki Hiroshi Aoyama Shuhei Aoyama Andre Luc Appietto

Four Images Reveal More About the New Suzuki Middleweight Adventure Bike

Rumors are still fuzzy on the upcoming release of a new middleweight Suzuki adventure bike, with there being some debate as to whether the V-Strom replacement will be a 650cc, 1000cc, or perhaps even an 800cc machine. Suzuki is pushing the adventure statement hard, which to us means that this new bike will be more off-road capable than the current V-Strom, which to us has always seemed like a sport-tourer duped into doing something it wasn’t ...

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Ken Armstrong Reg Armstrong Arciso Artesiani Sandro Artusi