Eric’s Take, Part 6—Bostrom Blogs!

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Team Cycle World Attack Performance Yoshimura Suzuki’s season finale at Barber Motorsports Park didn’t end as well as it began. But, as with life, nothing comes without hurdles, and bridging the distance between ourselves and America’s fastest men on two wheels was never going to be easy. To back up a bit, what better way [...]

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Officially unofficial: The 2011 Provisional MotoGP Calendar.

    FIM ANNOUNCEMENT – 2011 Provisional MotoGP Calendar Thursday 30 September For immediate release   The FIM today announced the provisional calendar for the 2011 MotoGP World Championship as the following:   Date Grand Prix Circuit March 20th Qatar* Losail April 3rd Spain Jerez April 24th Japan Motegi May 1st Portugal Estoril May 15th [...]

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Continuing Education: Revisiting the Schwantz School at Barber Motorsports Park.

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Not so many years ago, racetracks were pretty much reserved for, well, racers. Not anymore. This past week, following the season-ending AMA Pro Road Racing doubleheader at Barber Motorsports Park, I took a refresher course at the Schwantz School. With just one exception—me—none of the 27 students at this particular school had ever taken the [...]

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CANNONBALL UPDATE: Reaching the finish line in Santa Monica

Cannonball 2010 is in the books. The cool breeze of the Pacific Ocean was a very welcome sensation to the 30-plus intrepid men and women who spent the last 16 days traversing our great nation on cantankerous machines from another time, often in blistering heat. The talk in Kitty Hawk was that maybe 25 percent [...]

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PUNCTURED PILOT?! It’s no big deal to fix flats

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Go ahead and keep sticking things in our tires; the Stop & Go Tire Plugger will have us back on the road in 15 minutes. Among the things that make me believe in a higher power with a playful sense of humor is the frequency with which roofing nails, sheetmetal screws, horseshoe nails, really big [...]

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Honda CRF250R vs. KTM 350 SX-F vs. Yamaha YZ450F – Comparison Test The Magic 2, 3, 4.

Middle ground is hard territory to defend. You always have combatants from either side trying to ram home their opinions. So when rumors began to surface a year ago about KTM’s non-conformist 350 SX-F, we, like many of you, wondered if it just might prove to be the perfect combination of power, light weight and [...]

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Honda CRF250R vs. KTM 350 SX-F vs. Yamaha YZ450F – Video The Magic 2, 3, 4.

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Soils of Bakersfield: Racing Dirt Track at the County Fair

When our Associate Editor packs up the steel shoe, it won’t be long before it’s Crying Time. by Mark Cernicky and the Buckaroos photos by Jamey Blunt With the forecast in the 100+ temp range, it seemed like the perfect time to flee the Pacific coast and head over the Grapevine to Bakersfield for the [...]

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Dungey Dominates, USA Wins

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    Winning at home in front of a partisan crowd is perhaps a racer’s most satisfying achievement. But it also must be one of the most pressure-filled situations that these athletes experience; especially when the race pits nation vs. nation for international bragging rights.  For the 21st time in 64 years, Team USA secured [...]

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2011 Ducati 848 EVO: World Exclusive First Test – Video Ducati’s new 2011 848 EVO is track-ready and street savvy—we’ve dyno and full road test numbers to prove it.

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