Alpinestars was in full effect at this year’s Jeremy Lusk Memorial Ride Day. Good track, great people and beautiful weather made for an awesome day out at Pala Raceway
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There are electric motorcycles, and then there is Chip Yates and the Swigz Racing team. Yates’ electric motorcycle isn’t like other electric bikes you’ve seen. The difference? Yates’ bike is unbelievably fast. Yates and the Swigz Racing team just came within 1.4 seconds of the qualifying time for the AMA Pro Daytona Sportbike series.
To qualify for the Daytona Sportbike series, Yates would have to set a lap time of 1:35.88. Yates was almost able to hit that time this weekend during a two day test at the Auto Club Speedway. Yates ended the test with … Details
When Lonnie Isam Jr., honcho at Jurassic Racing in Sturgis, South Dakota, talked to some of his fellow vintage bike buddies about climbing on their old scooters and going for a ride, he let the cat out of the bag. Almost overnight he had nearly 100 people clamoring to take part in a 3,000-mile jaunt from the sand dunes of North Carolina to the beaches of Southern California. But a reality check clicked in when the concept of climbing mountains, traversing deserts, and having to deal with Sunday traffic in L.A. culled the number of entrants to an even 44.
The band of merry men, and two merry women, ran astride a literal wealth of antique machines, including a … Details