Last year’s inaugural TTXGP electric motorcycle race at the Isle of Man sparked a trend. For 2010 the official electric road-racing docket grows from one exhibition race to 14 planned events, with multiple championships and two rival series
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The original TTXGP returns for 2010 with a new format and the more robust schedule. Headlining the list of changes are two separate championships for the UK and North America, with a season-ending finale in Albacete, Spain pitting the points leaders of each series head-to-head … Details
Motocross legend Brad Lackey was notified this week that MX Champ, ESPN X-Games Gold Medalist, daredevil and rally car driver Travis Pastrana is on board and contributing $5,000 towards Lackey’s on-going efforts to get former MX hero Danny “Magoo” Chandler a new special needs van.
“Me and others have made great careers out of doing incredible things… no, IMPOSSIBLE things on motorcycles! However it was Magoo who showed everybody way back when what was possible if you  … Details
Jolene Van Vugt is a motocross national champion and the first female to backflip a full-sized dirt-bike, but you might know her from being “Nitro Girl” on the hit MTV show, Nitro Circus .
FanHouse recently spoke to the Canadian motocross star about the show, succeeding in a male-dominated sport and the new MX vs. ATV Reflex game, which hit stores earlier this month … Details
Somebody stop the madness! On second thought, don’t.
Used to be 180 hp at the back wheel was the result of tens of thousands of dollars of soup-up work: a turbo or nitrous, or just getting your hands on a megabucks works racebike. Them days are over: Motorcycle News, the weekly UK publication, just strapped a BMW S1000RR superbike to its dyno, revealing 183 hp at the rear tire. If you think this was a fluke, another dyno run by exhaust manufacturer Akrapovic (say “Ahh-Crop-Oh-Vitch”) showed 185.5 hp! … Details and Dyno Chart