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With electronic rider aids such as traction control, ABS and selectable power delivery quickly becoming standard on modern sportbikes, the next step in the digital revolution appears to be smart suspension systems. Imagine ECU-controlled suspension that makes damping adjustments on the fly to cope with changes in road surface conditions. BMW’s new HP4 S1000RR already [...]
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Öhlins Press release: Hendersonville, North Carolina: Ride, drive, or glide into the mountains of Western North Carolina on Saturday, May 12, 2012, to visit Öhlins USA, celebrating its 15-year history and the 36th year of Öhlins Racing AB. For your pleasure, there will be very cool and thrilling displays of the following associates and friends: [...]
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Yamaha’s new FZ8 lives in a tough neighborhood. Not the kind with iron security doors in front and underfed dogs on frayed leashes out back. No, it’s stuffed into that Snoop-dog-eat-dog place in Yamaha’s lineup between the truly high-performance FZ1 and the budget-framed, entry-level FZ6R. Its challenge, besides staying alive for a walk to the [...]
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Daytona has a way of expressing itself in extremes. This was the case in 1994 during my inaugural trip to Bike Week as a pro dirt-tracker. The first night at Municipal Stadium, I had an extraordinary qualifying result for the main event. That stellar effort was backed up the following evening by disappointment: I failed [...]
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Expert lensman Tim White snapped the attached images on Thursday at Daytona International Speedway during the afternoon AMA Pro practice and qualifying sessions. Morning practice was washed out by overnight rainstorms. By 10 a.m., the storm had blown through town, and DIS’s whistling jet dryers were clearing moisture from the racing surface. Clear weather is [...]
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In six short weeks, Richard Stanboli and the Team Cycle World Attack Performance crew have built two Kawasaki ZX-10R AMA Pro American SuperBikes and four ZX-6R Daytona SportBikes. During that same time span, riders Eric Bostrom and JD Beach have tested variations of those machines at Daytona International Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Buttonwillow Raceway [...]
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Team Cycle World Attack Performance spent two days last week at Buttonwillow Raceway testing its 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R AMA Pro American SuperBike and ZX-6R Daytona SportBike. Veteran racer Eric Bostrom and team newcomer JD Beach each completed more than 100 laps around the bumpy, 2.7-mile Central California racetrack. This was the third time Bostrom had [...]
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Eric Bostrom was officially credited with 12th place in Saturday’s AMA Pro American SuperBike race at Barber Motorsports Park. The Team Cycle World Attack Performance Yoshimura Suzuki rider was running fifth on the final lap of the race when he was rear-ended by Jordan Suzuki’s Brett McCormick in Turn 13. Both riders crashed. McCormick was [...]
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Team Cycle World Attack Performance Yoshimura Suzuki is back in action this weekend after skipping the penultimate round of the AMA Pro Road Racing series at New Jersey Motorsports Park. Most of the damage done to the team’s “A” GSX-R1000 in rider Eric Bostrom’s high-speed, lap-two tumble at Virginia International Raceway this past August was [...]
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Connecting the final pieces of the puzzle can be precarious. It’s the big commitment part that brings together the final scene, and that is where we are right now with Team Cycle World Attack Performance Yoshimura Suzuki. Our steady forward progress has been hindered by relatively few mishaps, but closing the gap to the front [...]
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