Guy Coulon is Colin Edwards’ crew chief on the Tech3 Motogp team. When Guy isn’t directing the building and maintenance of exotic race bikes, he spends his time exercising his skills building exotic engines and bikes for himself like this tube frame, 300cc inline 6 cylinder racer, an extremely impressive engineering project. I hesitate to use the word “homebuilt” since he obviously has the shop resources of a race team at his disposal but it’s, nevertheless, his own design and work. Starting, I believe, with two CBR250 engines, he machined his own cylinders and crankcase, machined a crankshaft from solid alloy and even designed his own gearbox … Details & Pictures
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Valentino Rossi described his return to the top step of the MotoGP podium as a huge satisfaction after ending a six-month victory drought at Sepang.
The outgoing world champion had not won a race since the season-opener in Qatar, with his shoulder and leg injuries and their after-effects leading to the longest barren spell in his MotoGP career.
But he came through to take the Malaysian Grand Prix win at Sepang today, despite dropping to 11th with a poor start … Details
The 2011 Daytona 200 Motorcycle Week will have a radical new look from season’s past as Daytona International Speedway splits its two biggest races into back-to-back weekend events.
In recent years, the Daytona Supercross and Daytona 200 have been staged on consecutive days over the final days of ‘Cycle Week, either Saturday and Sunday, or Friday and Saturday.
Now those two major motorcycle events will be held on different weekends during the traditional Bike Week time frame.
The first weekend of activity will focus solely on  … Details