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Ben Spies considering a comeback? Tweets suggest so. Yep.
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Ben Spies considering a comeback? Tweets suggest so. Yep. Ben Spies, the 2009 World Superbike champion, former AMA champion and MotoGP rider is up for a ride at next year’s Suzuka 8-Hour race. It might not seem like earth-shattering news at the moment, but this is a race story that’s got a lot of paddock-based…
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Isle of Man TT: Private promoter deal falls apart and the row moves to the courts
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Isle of Man TT: Private promoter deal falls apart and the row moves to the courts. Plans to have the Isle of Man TT races promotion run by a private company have fallen apart. The idea was for the promotion of the globally-famous road racing events of both the TT and the Classic TT to…
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Motorcycle Live! WSB World Champ Jonathan Rea confirmed to be at the show on opening day
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Motorcycle Live! WSB World Champ Jonathan Rea confirmed to be at the show on opening day. Recently-crowned double World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea (above, the bigger fella in the picture) will be one of many racing stars to appear at the UK’s biggest bike show, Motorcycle Live, which opens at The NEC, Birmingham on 19…
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Intermot show: LEAKED pics! BMW R nine T Racer caught on the BMW stage!
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Intermot show: LEAKED pics! BMW R nine T Racer caught on the BMW stage! Here’s a nice pic to go with our world’s FIRST look at the BMW R nine T Racer model for 2017 that we brought you a week ago. Here’s the same bike from INSIDE the locked off BMW stage being prepped…
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2017’s BMW R Nine T Racer REVEALED! Here it is!
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2017’s BMW R Nine T Racer REVEALED! Here it is! We’ve been sent this, the first official picture of the 2017 BMW R nine T Racer that will be launched officially next week at Intermot in Cologne. The bike clearly gets old-style conventional forks, it’s mostly the workings and chassis parts of the current R…
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AMAZING Video: When Facebook trash talking turns into a real race, winner-takes-all for £15,000
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AMAZING Video: When Facebook trash talking turns into a real race – winner takes all for £15,000 ! Ok, so this is dumb. But we had to show you. Because it’s dumb. And worth watching. The video is at the bottom of this page, so scroll down and hit play. What’s happened here is a…
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Kallio confirms KTM WILL race in MotoGP at Valencia this year
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At the private MotoGP test in Austria yesterday the KTM RC16 ran alongside its future world championship competition for the first time. Mika Kallio and Thomas Luthi took to the track and posted competitive laps times, so far – so expected. But then Kallio let slip when the bike will make its race debut.…
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Video: Rossi’s TV series on the net – watch episode four here
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Video: Rossi’s TV series on the net – watch episode four here. Episode four of the five part webisode series about Valentino Rossi is now live. We’ve got the episode embedded in this article below. It’s a solid part of the series looking into the creation of the theatrics and the show that is Rossi…
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WSB preview: Round 9, Laguna Seca – the stats that matter
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Ahead of this weekend’s WSB round at Laguna Seca, California here’s a vast stack of excellent stats to get your bike racing brain firing on all cylinders. Check out the amount of time that Tom Sykes appears in the important-stats list! 17 – A European rider won here for the first time after 16 races:…
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BSB Preview: Round five – Snetterton
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By Philip Wain The British Superbike Championship convoy rolls into Snetterton this weekend and with the teams having tested at the Norfolk venue last month, everyone should be able to hit the ground running and be on the pace immediately. Leon Haslam (above) arrives at Snetterton as the Championship leader, a status he’ll be keen…
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