Ed Krawiec and Andrew Hines have had a near perfect season: in the first 13 finals of the 16-race Pro Stock Motorcycle 2012 schedule, they combined to win 12 races, the only hiccup coming in Dallas when Michael Ray won his first career Wally (note: the PSM finals from Maple Grove Raceway, postponed due to weather, will be run at Las Vegas). The Screamin’ Eagles Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson duo is separated by just 17 points going into the second-to-last event on the 2012 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series schedule, the Big O Tires NHRA Nationals at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Thursday through Sunday, October 25th through 28th, with Krawiec in the lead. As multiple-time champions (Krawiec in 2008 and 2011, Hines with three straight from 2004 to 2006), they both know how  … More
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Valentino Rossi believes MotoGP is in the weakest state he has yet experienced in 12 years in grand prix racing’s premier class. The seven-time champion pinpoints a lack of on-track action as the main issue, which he says stems from bikes and equipment being “too perfect.”
“My personal feeling is that they have to change a lot for the future, because now is the worst moment for MotoGP since  … More
Big Twin’s second track day for more testing. Bike is working better all the time, this thing pulls so hard coming out of the turns, and in this video it had a stock 88″ motor, now its got a pumped 95″ motor making 109hp and 119 ft. lbs.
When it comes to electric motorcycles, I am not interested in saving the manatees. I don’t stand around in Starbucks parking lots debating the finer points of offsetting my carbon footprint. It is perfectly fine if that is your calling in life, but when it comes to motorcycles, I am really only interested in one thing: going fast. I am not going to berate someone for wanting to save the environment, or decrease our dependency on foreign energy reserves — those are both worthy and important sentiments that I share as well, just not when it comes to my two-wheel decadence.
The only political debate I am interested in hearing during a discussion about motorcycles is the politics of the apex. If you want to talk about “the green movement†on a ride with me, it better be in regards to your Kawasaki, which is why I have a love/hate relationship with the electric motorcycle community. There are two types of operators in this space  … More