AMAPRO: Celtic Racing & Orient Express Join For 2013

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Orient Express Press Release: Celtic Racing is pleased to welcome Orient Express as a team sponsor for the 2013 season. The new season also brings a third rider to the team, Caroline Olsen, who will ride the Celtic Orient Express Suzuki GSX-R 600 in the AMA Pro Road Racing SuperSport class. This extends the long [...]

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R&G Crash Protection For Kawasaki ZX-6R 636

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R&G Racing Products Press Release: R&G has released a comprehensive range of damage protection products and styling bolt-ons for the new Kawasaki ZX-6R 636 Ninja. A leader in motorcycle crash protection has acted quickly to get what will arguably be one of the most popular bikes for 2013 into its prototyping facility. The result is [...]

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Best Superbike: Aprilia Tuono V4 R

Aprilia Tuono V4 R

If you have one ounce, one molecule, one scintilla of hooliganism in you, the Tuono will bring it out faster than you can say, “But officer…” Try—just try—to ride this bike very far without snapping up the longest, easiest wheelie you’ve ever attempted. What? You say you don’t care about such things? Okay, but are [...]

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Best Open-Class Streetbike: Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R

Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R

So, you thought the Suzuki Hayabusa was fast? Meet the newly crowned king of quick, the fastest-accelerating production bike of all time. And not by the slimmest of margins, either. Endowed with 192 rear-wheel horsepower, the ZX-14R will jumpstart your heart and redline your pulse while rocketing from zero to 60 in 2.6 seconds and [...]

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CW’s 1985 24-Hour World Speed Record Wild boars, disintegrating tires and the 3000-mile left turn.

Larry Little, CW's Advertising Director in 1985, pilots one of the GSX-Rs at max speed.

Sheer insanity, that’s what it was. I mean, how else would you describe riding a powerful sportbike flat-out all day and all night with wild boars wandering in your path, rear tires slinging off chunks of tread rubber, holy s**t tank-slappers trying to pitch you off at close to 150 mph and sweating away 10 [...]

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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.

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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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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: 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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A Shout Out to the Shootout How did we wind up on this crazy starting grid, anyway?

A Shout Out to the Shootout - Superbikes 2012

October, 1972: The first time the word “superbike” appears in the modern era is in editor Ivan J. Wagar’s first-ride report on the new Kawasaki Z1. With all that power, the conjecture was that the 903cc beast’s drive chain (even with an oiler dribbling lube) wouldn’t last more than about 3500 miles: “But chains and [...]

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Rubber Wonders Workhorses and Exotics go to battle on Dunlops.

Rubber Wonders

There is no sweeter sight, we can tell you, than that of a moving van filled to the roof with the latest in track-ready rubber pulling up to your trackday (especially when the two guys making the delivery plan to stay and change tires for you). As you can imagine, we started the slugfest at [...]

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