Hot Stories
-
Sheene’s Daytona lid sells for £15,625 at auction – Guy Martin’s Blade goes for £14,720
Posted
by
Barry Sheene’s helmet – the smashed up one he fell in whilst testing at Daytona in 1975 – sold for £15,625 at the Bonhams auction at the weekend. Bearing Sheene’s iconic black and gold paintjob and featuring the the famous Donald Duck emblem the helmet was one used by Sheene across the 1974 and 1975…
-
Video: Brilliant drifting on a 50cc bike with plastic-coated rear tyre and loonie on board
Posted
by
Check this amazing video out of a genuinely-lovable biking nutter and his mates having a laugh with a 50cc bike and plastic-covered rear tyre. There’s not that much more that we can say about this other than it’s REALLY made us laugh today and it’s just joyous. We’ve got two videos for you here –…
-
Stafford auction: World Record smashed for rusty Brough Superior! £331,900 for this!
Posted
by
Bonhams Stafford Sale set a new world record price for a Brough Superior and for any British motorcycle sold at auction, as the gavel fell at an astounding £331,900 for the 1938 Brough Superior 750cc BS4 at the weekend. The BS4 was the highlight lot in the collection ‘The Broughs of Bodmin Moor’, which…
-
Spied: Rossi’s next phase of MotoGP bike development spotted in Jerez. And Lorenzo hasn’t got this on his bike!
Posted
by
A keen-eyed snapper for website GPOne.com caught this new bit of kit on Valentino Rossi’s factory Yamaha at Jerez. It’s a sensor that’s been fitted to the clutch on the nine-times world champion’s bike. The arm, and data-logging equipment that goes with it, was only fitted to Rossi’s bike and wasn’t seen on Lorenzo’s machine. Given…
-
Akula BMW/TVS 300 concept IS going into production – as the Apache RTR300
Posted
by
Our friends at the excellent Rushlane website in India have dug up a great bike of info on the Akula 310 concept – the fully-faired sportbike based around BMW’s G310R naked (pictured below). The Apache RTR300 gets the G310R’s 34bhp liquid-cooled single-cylinder motor and a 6-speed gearbox. The best news is that the…
-
Video: Bloke falls asleep whilst riding a scooter… and drops it (naturally)
Posted
by
We were sceptical about this the first time we watched this video of a guy in Thailand apparently falling asleep on a scooter – but having watched it a few times it’s starting to look pretty real to us. Have a watch yourself and see what you think. He’s weaving all over the place and…
-
Japanese journo’s Honda CBR250RR finished form image appears – and it looks trick
Posted
by
Top Japanese motorcycle magazine Young Machine has just released it’s latest edition’s cover – and pride of place on it is a fully-finished computer Mac-up of the upcoming CBR250RR Honda. The bike shares a lot of bodywork styling from the already-seen CBR125 – but in terms of colourscheme etc it’s a safe bet that this…
-
Lorenzo: “We could have won the race! Michelin has to find out what is going on.”
Posted
by
Jorge Lorenzo suffered a rear tyre spinning badly enough to rob him of a win at Jerez and has now said that Michelin needs to find out what the issue with the rubber was. As the MotoGP World Championship lined up for the start of the Gran Premio Red Bull de España, eyes were on…
-
MotoGP Jerez: Rossi wins in style “I think that this was the perfect weekend!”
Posted
by
Valentino Rossi took a sensational first win of 2016 with a flawless performance at the Gran Premio Red Bull de España in Jerez. With the three biggest names in the MotoGP World Championship all starting on the front row of the grid, the Spanish GP was set to be a very special race. For Valentino…
-
Moto2 Jerez: Sam Lowes takes first win of 2016 with perfect Spanish GP
Posted
by
He may have had to fight in the opening laps, but once Lowes was ahead he was untouchable. Folger and Rins joining him on the podium. The sun blazed down on the thousands of fans gathered at the Circuito de Jerez to witness the Moto2 World Championship race at the Gran Premio Red Bull de…
