Ride For Kids: Sunday is Your Last Chance to Win

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Ride For Kids Press Release: Time is running out for your chance to win a customized Honda CBR1000RR! The drawing to benefit the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation closes this Sunday at midnight Eastern. Donated by Ride for Kids presenting sponsor American Honda, the Ride for Kids/Cycle World drawing bike offers a perfectly integrated combination of [...]

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Cycle World/Ride For Kids Honda CBR1000RR Gregg's Customs builds a beautiful bike that you can win.

Ride For Kids Honda CBR1000RR - rear wheel/exhaust pipe

The Ride for Kids organization has been around for 29 years, raising some $60 million to benefit the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. That makes motorcyclists the single-largest source of funding for childhood brain-tumor research—an especially noble pursuit given that, each day in the U.S., 11 families learn they have a child thus afflicted. And here [...]

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Ride For Kids: Win a Bike and Help Cure Kids!

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Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Press Release: The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Ride for Kids welcomes the International Motorcycle Show back to Atlanta this weekend, Nov. 2-4. Come by the PBTF booth at the Cobb Galleria Center and enter to win the annual Ride for Kids/Cycle World motorcycle drawing to benefit the PBTF. Honda has donated [...]

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The State of the Superbike The ins and outs of class warfare.

The State of the Superbike

We have two upsets for the price of one this month. Aprilia vanquishes the bleeding-edge Ducati for top honors among the Exotics while the apparent overdog Workhorse, the BMW S1000RR, returns to Munich to lick its wounds inflicted by, of all things, a Honda! A Honda without traction control or an unabashedly in-your-eardrums engine note [...]

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2012 Superbike Shootout Nine bikes, two tracks, Workhorses and Exotics, we search for the ultimate roadlegal track weapon in two price ranges.

Superbikes 2012

  Workhorse Shootout Exotic Shootout   Superbike by the Numbers Street Smarts   Rubber Wonders The Pirelli Question   A Shout Out to the Shootout The State of the Superbike  

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2012 Superbike Shootout: By the Numbers A statistical breakdown of hot laps.

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Located near the southern shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, Miller Motorsports Park is one of America’s premier roadrace venues. MMP offers multiple course configurations ranging from a lengthy, 4.5-mile Full Course to a 3.08-mile Perimeter Course or, when spit in half, comprises two distinctly different 2.2-mile circuits, aptly named the East Course and West [...]

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2012 Superbike Shootout: Workhorses The most affordable high-performance machines in the world face off.

Workhorses: Superbikes 2012

Budgets are tight these days, right? But that doesn’t mean you have to give up any of life’s necessities like big horsepower, awesome handling or incredible brakes. These machines prove this point. Our group of five Workhorses in this less-costly class range from the $13,799 Suzuki GSX-R1000 to the $16,490 BMW S1000RR. Three have traction [...]

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Street Smarts Superbikes all, but home is really on the road.

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On the street, these nine superbikes are like caged animals, which is exactly why we took them to Miller Motorsports Park to feed. At a world-class racing venue, you can unlock their pens and let their predatory instincts take over. The reality, however, is that most people who purchase one of these potent machines will [...]

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Learning Laguna – Racing MotoGP rookie Stefan Bradl rides a Honda CBR1000RR at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

Stefan Bradl rides a Honda CBR1000RR

Stefan Bradl sat quietly under the bright, warm sun and cloudless sky this past Monday waiting for his tires to warm up. The 2011 Moto2 world champion was at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, to learn the 11-turn, 2.238-mile circuit for July’s Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix. Moto2 and Moto3 don’t race at [...]

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Jardine Performance Products GP1-R Exhaust System – New Product Ideas

Jardine Performance Products GP1-R Exhaust System

The MotoGP-inspired, racetrack-ready GP1-R ($1099) is constructed of thin-wall 304 stainless steel for a weight savings of as much as 10 pounds compared to original-equipment sportbike exhaust systems, claims Jardine. What’s more, this high-flow, under-engine design is said to deliver noticeable power and torque gains throughout the rpm range and lower the center of gravity [...]

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