26.6.05

Racing update: BIR's alive: "I've had the AMA at three tracks. It's a very popular event, but somehow -- maybe it's the AMA structure -- the track always loses money."

24.6.05

Stricter motorcycle regulations needed - PittsburghLIVE.com
BMW Develop Advanced Composite Helmets and Body Armour
Law banning 'straight pipes' on motorcycles OK'd - Fosters
ITALY: Costume National Launches Range With Ducati : Apparel and Textile news
San Bernardino County Sun - Sports California Speedway returned to the forefront of the motorsports industry on Thursday by announcing Gillian Zucker as its new track president, the first woman in the country to hold such a position at a major speedway.
7news stories A high-powered engine once used to set a world land speed motorcycle record may hold the key to future space travel.

19.6.05

World news from The Times and the Sunday Times - Times Online: "Iconic motorbike is on sale in Moscow for the first time since 1917"
The Sun News | 06/19/2005 | Ousting May Bikers: "Interest in scaling down - or getting rid of - the May Harley-Davidson and Bikefest motorcycle rallies runs high among local residents and business owners."
gizmag Article: Electric Superbike is on the way
Ride to live ... or die - PittsburghLIVE.com

14.6.05

Net Music Countdown: Ludacris Backs Motorcycle Team
The Union Leader and New Hampshire Sunday News - 14-Jun-05 - Vintage race echoes lost era
C21Media: Nickell upped at Fox's Speed Channel
American News | 06/14/2005 | Board holds hearing on Janklow's law license: "The judge gave him a suspended imposition of sentence, which means the convictions will be erased from Janklow's criminal record if he fully complies with all terms of his sentence. Although the jury found him guilty, the suspended imposition of sentence means that the judge does not technically enter a finding of guilt."

13.6.05

Police can't nab 155 mph motorcyclist - Peculiar Postings - MSNBC.com
RPM.com - Auction Team M4 EMGO Suzuki’s Formula Extreme rider Vincent Haskovec, currently recovering from the severe injuries he suffered in his devastating crash at Infineon Raceway, is the focus of AMA road racing’s largest charity online auction.

9.6.05

The Daytona Beach News-Journal: SPEED Magazine: "The Rolex 24 At Daytona is being moved from its normal first weekend of February one week earlier to Jan. 28-29. The move is believed to be permanent, and is designed to end a longstanding first-Sunday-in-February schedule conflict between the race and the NFL's Super Bowl."

6.6.05

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Degree for grand prix winner angers Italy's academics
Motor Sports a key topic of Wall Street Transcript Report on Leisure Sector In this brief excerpt, Joseph Hovorka discusses the outlook for the Motor Sports sector.
Latest News and Financial Information | Reuters.co.uk: "Briatore responded to questions about the possible switch of world MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi to Formula One by saying that the Italian would have more difficulties than many predicted.
'It would be very good for us to have Rossi in Formula One, but there would be no chance of him winning things. The problem is that he would have to start at the bottom as a test driver -- you can't just come along and get in the car and race.
'It takes a lot more preparation and training to drive a Formula One car than it does to ride a bike."

29.5.05

CANOE -- JAM! Music: Cellphone ring tone hit single in Britain: "Crazy Frog Axel F, a ring tone based on the sound of a revving Swedish moped, is the first tune being used on mobile phones to cross into mainstream music charts"

27.5.05

New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion At first glance, what could be more wrong than a Nascar speedway in New York City?

23.5.05

New Straits Times - Malaysia News Online: "The demise of the circuit, where Malaysia got its first taste of world-class motorsports when it hosted the World Superbike Championships in 1989 and later the FIM World Motorcycle Championships, was mourned by many."
News - Post-Tribune (Northwest Indiana) Motorcycle deaths drop; official credits training

18.5.05

10.5.05

Recordnet.com Tony Meiring is back with Team Corona, and this time he's old enough to have his sponsor's name on his motorcycle.

The Sun News | 05/09/2005 | Judge: Traffic plans must be same for both bike weeks
Arutz Sheva - Israel National News IDF Purchases Harley-Davidson Motorcycles

9.5.05

Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News: "Honda's Cumulative Worldwide Motorcycle Production Reaches 150 Million Units "

7.5.05

KRT Wire | 05/07/2005 | Michael Jordan drives, hits 170 mph on motorcycle
NewsNet5.com - Sports - Winslow's Injuries Turn Out To Be Truly Serious: "WEWS reported police didn't have a bike similar to Winslow's, so a Channel 19 reporter, with nearly the same bike and tires as Winslow's volunteered to do the skid test. Police gave him the green light.
Westlake police repeatedly cautioned the rider to go slowly, so they could estimate Winslow's speed.
He ended up falling off the bike when attempting to stop. "

2.5.05

DailyBulletin.com - Sports: "Turns out, this sport doesn't have scads of fatalities. Fairly remarkable considering the risks - speed, vulnerability, bumpy tracks, etc."
Motorsport.com: News channel: "Further afield, 1994 national champion Anthony Gobert (Redwing Honda CBR1000RR), on the comeback trial, finished with 12th and 10th places. "

26.4.05

American Angst- Making fun of flag slathered retards and trend humping fashion lemmings
Bloomberg.com: Asia: "Honda, the world's largest motorcycle maker, said its sales of two-wheeled vehicles may fall 1.8 percent to 10.3 million units in the same period (FY2005).
The forecast doesn't include 3.4 million motorcycles Honda makes in China and India, excluded under U.S. accounting rules because they are assembled entirely from locally made parts. "

21.4.05

Older Riders Add to Rise In Motorcycle Fatalities (washingtonpost.com)
Herald Sun: Motorcycle GP funds plea fails [22apr05]
2004 traffic death rate lowest ever recorded - U.S. News - MSNBC.com: "The figures predicted the seventh straight increase for motorcycle fatalities. In 2004, 3,927 motorcyclists died, an increase of 7.3 percent over 2003."

20.4.05

The New Zealand Herald: "Pitstop: Slight the drawcard for classic bike fest"
The Daytona Beach News-Journal: East Volusia: "You're good to go for another 25 years"

8.4.05

DailyBulletin.com - Sports Columnists Will Fontana get Superbikes & Supercross?

4.4.05

Eurosport - Motorsports - MotoGP - Live and Results. Men and Women. - Jerez: "Nicky Hayden is gunning for MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi ahead of the 2005 season, declaring the Italian 'enemy number one'. A scorching pre-season has aroused high hopes that the young Texan can make this the year that Rossi's three-year reign of terror ends."
MCN: The UK's number 1 motorcycling magazine Bike use booms in UK