Motorcycle Dirt Track Video – Yamaha’s Xmas Present: King Kenny on the TZ Flat-Tracker Video – Do you remember Kenny Roberts’ stunning victory on the fearsome TZ750 flat-track bike at the Indy Mile in 1975? Or maybe you heard about his spirited parade laps on the bike at this year’s Indy Mile (with Valentino Rossi watching).
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The New Year is only moments away, and every fresh calendar starts with the biggest off-road race on the planet – the Dakar Rally. This will be the second year in a row that the historic African event is held on the South American continent as it runs through Argentina and Chile. The season leading up to the 2010 rally has been full of big announcements and so we embark on another decade of Dakar racing with an event that could reshape the sport as we know it.
It was a back and forth battle with the French Dakar organizers, ASO, who have had concerns about bikes being too powerful and the resulting injuries and death, announcing that bikes no larger than 450cc would be allowed to compete. Well, to Austrian manufacturer and Dakar’s largest OEM supporter, KTM, which has … Details
Sitting in the dark, smoky lounge at Mike’s Sky Ranch, surrounded by hundreds of posters, stickers, photographs and pieces of memorabilia from the off-roaders that have been here before us is as close to a Baja Zen moment as you can get.
Add into the equation that we were swilling margaritas with a racing legend and the trip just became that much better. Six members of the MotoUSA family listening intently as Danny LaPorte strung a yarn about one of his epic battles in World MX with Georges Jobé and his infamous race with Bob Hannah and Broc Glover … Details
There are some stunning designs and examples of great engineering among the electric motorcycles we’ve seen over the past few years, everything to indicate the electric motorcycle is just around the corner. Brammo is on sale in Best Buy, the Zero X and Quantya are dueling it out on the dirt and the TTXGP grew quickly, in just one year, into an event filled with more competitors than even the organizers had hoped for. We’re almost there, we’ll soon see them everywhere, just a few loose ends and the promise of electric bikes will be fulfilled, … real soon, as soon as those batteries last longer, … and charge faster, … and cost less, … and don’t weigh as much, … or maybe, just possibly, they’re still quite a ways off.
The engineering expertise available today made short work of … Details