Honda has been selected as the engine supplier for the Moto2 class in 2010.Carmelo Ezpeleta, chief executive officer of promoter Dorna Sports, and Vito Ippolito, president of the International Motorcycling Federation, chose Honda after receiving offers from “various biddersâ€. None of the other bidders were named, though British-based Motorcycle News reports Yamaha was also in the running while New Zealand publication Motorcycle Sport & Leisure quotes Norton boss Stuart Garner saying the British company submitted an application
The 600cc Moto2 engines are expected to produce over…Â Details
If you’re a deeply rooted fan of motorcycles, then you’ve surely heard of a little sport called Trials. Trials is a mixture of balance, precision and technique. The main goal of competitive Trials is to get to the top of whatever object is in front of you smoother and cleaner than the next guy. But in Lyon, France, a 28 year-old named Julian Dupont is taking Trials to an entire new level and is the pioneering face of a new discipline called Trials X or Street Trial.
Trials X isn’t a so-called competitive sport, but it’s gaining world-wide notoriety because it’s simply bad-ass. My French friend …Â Details & Pictures
The Aussies (and New Zealander’s) have replaced the Euro’s as the next region to take down the American FMX Empire
There has been a quiet invasion happening in the world of FMX. An invasion so insidious that few may have noticed it, but I fear that now it may be too late to avert.
A couple of years ago, my concern was that those pesky Euros were going to come storming into the Americas and that, once they figured out the big dirt courses here, they would be an unstoppable force. We had some notable visits from riders like France’s Manu Troux and Germany’s Busty Wolter. Troux executed what is still probably one of the most epic bike ejections of all time at an event in Colorado Springs and went home with a broken femur…Â Details