racebikes: It might look like something from the 1970s, but this all-conquering MV Agusta GP 500 Triple is new from the tires up.

MV Agusta 3: It Is What It Was It might look like something from the 1970s, but this all-conquering MV Agusta GP 500 Triple is new from the tires up.

August 14, 2012 By Bruno dePrato Leave a Comment

The legacy of MV Agusta three-cylinder racebikes and their many world championships is not just a mere fact of numbers: It has been reborn in steel and aluminum and magnesium. Ezio and Maurizio Mascheroni and Enrico Sironi, the men of HRT who made major contributions to the development of MV Agusta’s new 675 F3, have [...]

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Filed Under: Features, Sportbike Tagged With: Giacomo Agostini, GP 500, MV Agusta, racebikes, Racing, roadracing, Sportbike

For Sale: Honda MotoGP Bike! Honda says it will produce for-sale Grand Prix machinery in 2014.

June 26, 2012 By Kevin Cameron Leave a Comment

Honda’s MotoGP chief, Shuhei Nakamoto, has disclosed that for the 2014 season, the company will offer for sale a V-Four 1000cc MotoGP “production racer.” This machine will take the place of the present leased satellite bikes. It will be a full prototype, subject to current prototype rules, and is not to be confused with the [...]

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Filed Under: Racing Tagged With: 2014, Aprilia, Claiming Rule Teams, CRT, Ducati, Honda, Kawasaki, Moto2, MotoGP, racebikes, Racing, road racing.CRT, Superbike, Suzuki, V-Four Honda, Yamaha

From the Cycle Archives: Satisfied Mind For the Love of a 175cc Ducati with a funny front brake.

June 13, 2012 By Phil Schilling 2 Comments

I discovered it in the May 1959 issue of Cycle, and called it the Ducati with the funny front brake. In two months I had nearly worn out Page Ten, eyeballing the photograph of that motorcycle. And now it was June 1959, the middle of final exam week at Northwestern. I was holed up in [...]

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Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Class 4 lightweight, Ducati, racebikes

Return to Imola A former Daytona 200 winner finally gets his wish: to “race” a two-stroke Yamaha Twin in Italy.

April 3, 2012 By Don Emde Leave a Comment

Don Emde aboard his #25 Yamaha racebike at the starting line

Tensions were high. Engines were hot. The warm-up lap was done, and the field was back on the starting line ready for the drop of the green flag. We waited and waited but no flag. Up ahead, a bike was off to the side of the track while a mechanic changed a sparkplug. Finally, it [...]

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