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Max Biaggi: Roman on Holiday

November 23, 2010 By 4 Comments
030 BMW K1600GTL

Miller Motorsports Park recently hosted its final press teleconference of the year. Appropriately, the guest was 2010 World Superbike Champion Max Biaggi—a double winner at the Toole, Utah, racetrack this past May. “I woke up this morning with three questions for Max and determination to get on there and ask away,” said Cycle World Technical [...]

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Clockwork

November 22, 2010 By 4 Comments
002 BMW’s S1000RR Perfect Privateer Platform?

The idea of building a racing motorcycle has changed a lot in 38 years. In 1972, we did everything we could both think of and afford to make our machines more capable of running at the front. Today, much of that is prohibited. To prevent factories from doing the unaffordable, sanctioning bodies now prevent everyone [...]

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How to Crash, `90s GP style…

November 18, 2010 By 4 Comments

Well, we never want to see anybody get hurt, though if somebody has to get hurt, there are some we’d rather see hurt than others. No, I didn’ t mean that, we want to see nobody get hurt equally. But it’s hard to watch this video, for me anyway, and not think racing is a [...]

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The 1982 Houston MXTT–The Rider Files

November 5, 2010 By 9 Comments

“He’s out of control,” grumbled the highly respected national champ Mike Kidd said of Wise…

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Ben Bostrom signs with Jordan Suzuki

November 4, 2010 By 4 Comments
023 Mark Cernicky awarded.

Ben Bostrom will compete in the 2011 AMA Pro American SuperBike Championship on a Suzuki GSX-R1000 for Michael Jordan Motorsports. This past season, Bostrom, 36, won one race, had eight podium placings and finished fifth overall racing in the same class on a Pat Clark Motorsports-prepared Yamaha YZF-R1. “Signing Ben Bostrom is another incredible step [...]

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