The “royal league” of motorbike sports met the supreme discipline of winter sports. The legendary Hahnenkamm race, the toughest contest in skiing’s world cup, is to take place this weekend. Triple world champion Marc Márquez became the first man to take on a snowy Alpine mountain summit on a MotoGP bike! It was just a few hundred metres above this extreme section, on the “Ehrenbachhöhe” on the Hahnenkamm mountain, where Marc Márquez pulled off his thrilling MotoGP display before the big ski race. There is no greater expert when it comes to speeding around the tarmac of a racing circuit, of course, and when it came to riding on the snow, the 23-year-old superstar had two real pros by his side. Austrian ice speedway legend Franky Zorn, no less, fitted the racing bike with some proper spikes. By becoming the first MotoGP driver to take a racing bike over the summit of a mountain in the Alps, Marc Márquez followed in the tracks of Max Verstappen, who put on the first Formula 1 show run in the Alps in the same spot last year.
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A four-year-old daredevil is tearing up the competition in Ukraine with his motorcycle skills. While most kids are just day-dreaming about riding a motorbike, Ukrainian Tima Kuleshov started riding a bicycle before he was two-years-old and graduated to a mini motorbike at just two and a half.
Logan’s Reaction to motorbike race
From Four Aces Cycle & Lowbrow Customs comes The Salt Ghost: Return of the Nitro Express. Two years in the making, this film covers the exploration of this vintage Triumph motorcycle lakes racer that spent two decades racing at the Bonneville Salt Flats and El Mirage, it’s history, builder, and it’s return to the dry lakes.
“In the 1960s and 1970s, legions of speed freaks blasted down the drag strips and dry lakes of Southern California on their two-wheeled tickets to thrills. Legions more campaigned machines at the famed Bonneville Salt Flats during the same time. What happened to these motorcycles? The vast majority of them have disappeared into the mists of time, disassembled and used for restoring soulless stockers or simply forgotten in old sheds and barns. Once in awhile one turns up and gets sold to a museum or carefully displayed in some motorcycle shop owner’s office. Rarely if ever again do these machines return to their beloved battleground: the Dry Lake or Salt Flat.
The Return of the Nitro Express is the story of one bike that did not get filed away and retired. Thanks to two present day cowboy speed junkies who eschew modern technology and dance with dangerous old motorcycles, the Salt Ghost will be reborn…or will it? Watch as Wes and Tyler bring the Nitro Express back to where it all began, to the dry and hot Bonneville Salt Flats where legends are born in blood, sweat and gears!”