Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Bridgestone won and Michelin lost; that’s the blunt outcome of the 2007 USGP. Less than a year ago, Bridgestone personnel were bemoaning their inability to build a rubber compound that could work well on newly laid tarmac. Now, they can annihilate their main opposition on exactly that sort of surface. But is that because Bridgestone [...]
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Quick, name the single most important motorcycle race in the world. The Daytona 200? Nah, not for years. Instead, you have to travel halfway ’round the world to the Mie Prefecture in south-central Japan, where for 30 years the Big Four have brought their best bullets to the Suzuka 8-Hours endurance race. At stake? Nothing [...]
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Big performance generates big headlines, and no motorcycle created more of a stir last year than the ZX-14. Twelve months later, nothing has changed. Despite sophisticated electronics that soften power delivery in the bottom four gears, only the steamiest Open-class racer-replicas are as quick in the quarter-mile and nothing–repeat, nothing–posts a higher top speed. Yet [...]
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Good job, bike-makers of the world! How’s this for parity? Of the Ten Best spots open to 500 or so individual motorcycle models available for sale in the U.S. this year, seven manufacturers from six different countries are represented. And the ones that didn’t make the cut were oh, so close. Bottom line? In the [...]
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No matter how many times I’ve done it in my 20 years of motojournalism, it’s always daunting to jump on someone else’s racebike. There’s so much new information flooding into your awareness that it’s like drinking from a fire hose, and the only way to keep from choking on the stream is to slow down. [...]
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It was a spectacle but it wasn’t much of a show. In what is fast becoming the script for this MotoGP season, Casey Stoner put his Ducati V-Four’s superior grunt and sticky Bridgestone tires to good use, jetting away to a 10-second victory at the Red Bull USGP at Laguna Seca. If the 21-year-old Australian [...]
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One great thing about being a journalist at a MotoGP race is the opportunity to see technology and hardware I’d never get to see otherwise. So when Ducati’s J.P. Canton stuck his head in the media tent and asked if I wanted to see the garage of the Pramac D’antin Ducati raceteam, I rounded up [...]
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Photography by Josh Gonen CW reader Josh Gonen “volunteered” to take some photos for us in exchange for some tickets, so if you couldn’t join the festivities you can enjoy them online with our slideshow! Look for video soon. Without a doubt the MotoGP weekend at Laguna Seca is the biggest sporting motorcycle event in [...]
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Photography by Chris Cantle Nothing can take the place of experiencing a MotoGP race live. The sound of screaming engines, cheering crowds, the sweet smell of race gas and molten rubber add to the visual landscape of the twisting pavement, brightly colored leathers and of course, exotic, one-off racebikes. But here’s the next best thing; [...]
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