Faster and Faster (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Hub-centre steering, twin engines - one mounted in each wheel hub - and machine guns! If this Bat bike isn't the perfect machine on which to commute to work, we don't know what is The Dark Knight is one cool movie – we love the fact that Mr Bat chooses to ride a motorcycle when he needs to really get going. And, of course, since he’s a Dark Knight, the caped crusader gets a fully tricked-out
Faster and Faster (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
A simulated rendering of the 2009 Honda VFR1000 Pic: MotociclismoWe first wrote about the 2009 Honda VFR1000 in August last year. Now, according to a report on Motociclismo, Honda are finally ready with their brand-new VFR1000, which will replace the ageing VFR800 and the erstwhile CBR1000XX Super Blackbird. And according to the report, the VFR1000 will be ready by September this year! The 2009
Faster and Faster (Free subscription) | yesterday
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI and his Piaggio Ape Calessino-based Popemobile. Funky!His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI is getting a cool new set of wheels. No, not the Maserati Quattroporte. The Pope will soon be whizzing around the Vatican City in a custom-made Piaggio three-wheeler. Based on the Ape Calessino, the Popemobile has been made by Piaggio’s Indian subsidiary in Baramati, in India. Two
Faster and Faster (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Berliner Apollo: A Ducati with a 100bhp V4, in the 1960s! The current-model Yamaha V-Max, with its near-200bhp 1700cc V4, is pretty wild all right. But it certainly isn’t the first of its type. Ducati made their 'V-Max' back in the 1960s. Only, theirs was called the Apollo… Back in the early 1960s, Ducati importers in the US, the Berliner brothers asked Ducati to make a machine that would rival
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Since her impressive results a couple of weeks ago at Snetterton, Jenny couldn’t bear the thought of a weekend without racing, so she teamed up with Fergus, her sponsor from sorrymate.com and headed off to South Wales, and the interesting circuit of Pembrey, for a bit of fun competing in the Hottrax Junior TAG Endurance Race. After a demanding 102 laps, ‘team sorrymate.com’ finished the race in 7th...
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The three-day test session at the Tuscan track of Mugello has concluded in a positive fashion for Sete Gibernau. The Spanish rider has clocked up a great deal of kilometres on track (around 800kms in total) first with the GP9, then with the GP8, finishing with a final exit on the GP9 for a back to back comparison. In this, only his second test session after nearly two years away from the tracks, Gibernau...
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Michelin’s MotoGP test team visited the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time on July 1st and 2nd to test tyres in readiness for the inaugural Indy MotoGP event scheduled for September 14th. The two day session between the Dutch and German MotoGP rounds was scheduled thanks to new regulations which allow tyre manufacturers to test at tracks which haven’t previously featured on the World Championship...
Top Speed (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Posted on 07.3.2008 15:08 by Maxx Biker Filed under: Yamaha | scooters | video | commuting This new Yamaha Scooter Ad features the Maxam in the urban jungle doing what it knows best: helping people commute in comfort and reach their destinations with large smiles on their faces. A maxi scooter, the Maxam is designed to carry two riders and still not lose its agility and proper handling abilities....
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Championship chasing Elite League Speedway team, the Lakeside Hammers, have confessed to being 'astonished' by the response to their charity initiative on behalf of CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA. To cap off a resounding victory against reigning champions Coventry in Monday night's live Sky Sports broadcast, team owner Stuart Douglas has been bowled over by the generosity of the Hammers fans.
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
A top North Wales biker has a starring role in a new all-action PlayStation 2 game. One of the virtual riders in the game is based on speed king Paul Owen, from Llangollen. Paul, 36, is fresh from competing in the legendary Isle of Man TT series for the 12th time. Bike fans will be able to see his collection of powerful TT motorbikes and trophies in real life soon. He’s going to be putting them on...
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Motorcyclists at the IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) bike conference this week (30th June 2008) called for greater access to bus lanes. A delegate survey of 130 motorcyclists, representing the IAM’s 19,000 motorcycle members, overwhelmingly supported bus lane access for bikers (92 per cent). The move could have significant improvements for the safety of motorcyclists, say the IAM.
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The UK Department of Transport is now providing star ratings for motorcycle helmets, in a bid to improve safety and offer the buyer a rough idea of each product's protective qualities. Most UK bikers don't really known how motorcycle helmets are designed, manufactured and tested. Once there were BSI standards, now we have the UN ECE 22.05 tests, but many riders still make a judgement by asking other...
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
An accord was signed a few days ago between FGSport and Giorgio Nada Editore. After 18 editions, the Superbike World Championship Official book now forms part of the portfolio of the most important Italian specialized publishing house. Since the very beginning, FGSport has believed in the publication of the official Superbike book. Over the years it has, through the words and pictures of Claudio and...
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Victory Motorcycles is 10 years old in 2008 and its UK operation will be marking the anniversary at the forthcoming Americana International show at the Nottinghamshire County Showground in Newark from 11th-13th July. Now running for more than 25 years, Americana is described as Europe’s number one American lifestyle event and offers up to 70,000 visitors a long weekend extravaganza of classic American...
londonbikers.com (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The Lakeside Hammers roared to a very impressive 34 points victory over last season’s triple champions, the Coventry Bees, in last night’s Sky Sports Elite League match at their Arena-Essex Raceway. The win moves the Hammers up two places in the table, up into third place, but they have four matches in hand over the top two, Swindon and Poole. A top two place at the end of the season is important...
