Everybody is aware of the fact that tuning has made it around the world, Japan being the starting point. Now, each and every year, Japanese aftermarket tuners present their own improved creations with custom paint job and louder, more powerful exhausts.
Through the years, tuners such as Yoshimura, Active, Nojima and Active have individualized themselves from the crowd and get all the recognition as being the best tuning shops back in Japan.
We have such examples in our photo gallery and it is your job to find the intruder. Good Luck!
Suzuki will produce the GSX-R1000 under yet another coloring and have it called a limited edition model. Color combination for this unique ride will be pearl white and metallic silver and all authorized dealers will sell it for the equivalent of $15,840.
George Cheeseman, head of the marketing department at Suzuki GB comments: “Customer demand in the past has proven how popular the limited colour runs are, so we are pleased to be able to offer this addition to the already popular GSX-R (...) >> read
Is this the bike on which Chris Vermeulen plans on winning the 2009 MotoGP? We’ve come across this photo from the first tests of Chris Vermeulen on the evolution version of the GSV-R with which the Australian pilot will attempt to conquer the 2009 MotoGP title. Perfectly reflecting the team’s strategy, the bike, equipped with sidecar and car wheels as balance and the aerodynamic features do all the trick. I don’t know how a shoulder-to-shoulder final lap will look with this thing on the track, but the idea is daring, challenging and funny.
A Ducati 1098R with 0 Miles on board and ready to race in the Superstock 1000 Championship is being posted for sale.
We are talking about a new, 1200cc Ducati 1098 R that is ready to be registered as the second bike of the Team Guandalini Superstock 1000. But everything comes at a price and in this case it is all about the 42, 000 euros required. The price is negotiable though.
For more information (mostly concerning the racing features of the bike) please click on the source below.
HRC is enthusiastic about its new pneumatic valves motor and in order to have it tuned up and ready to go, several tests will be underway.
Team racers Nicky Hayden and Dani Pedrosa will at last get a proper feel of the long awaited motor as part of a now tradition in the European Grand Prix. After the Le Mans MotoGP race, all teams will stop on Monday for a day of testing new solutions and technologies. And it seems that Honda has big plans for testing the new engine with this occasion. (...) >> read
Every rider wishes to continue the race even after a fall and if they and their bikes are ok, the only thing to worry is the lap time. But it seems that in this case even that isn’t a problem as the perfect world in which we’re living makes it possible for a rider to catch up with its rebel racing bike. Though the idea is nice!
Simply brilliant Bennets motorcycle TV advert! And people should really be afraid of a Ducati 1098 when it gets angry, but that only happens when they forget the throttle is being held in their own right hands. Now keep that Ducati on a short leash!
Michael Schumacher is into motorcycling more than everybody expected it to be. Here it is taking photos with pilots on the circuit of Bresse a few days ago and then doing a few statements before it gets rolling on to the circuit. Go Schumi!
The seven times World MotoGP Champion, Valentino Rossi has had a great career so far and there’s plenty where this came from. By looking at the video attached below you will see all of the Italian pilot’s successes and best ever moments as well as the MotoGP teams it’s been competing for.
Roehr Motorcycles has just allowed reservations for the new 1250sc model which will be available this summer. Claimed being the most powerful and implicit the fastest running production bike that America has to offer, it already starts to impress and you couldn’t expect less. >> read