Launched! Team Cycle World Attack Performance Yoshimura Suzuki AMA Pro American SuperBike Four-time AMA national champion Eric Bostrom joins Team Cycle World at Infineon Raceway.

Photography by James Wirth Eric Bostrom was all smiles this past weekend at Infineon Raceway. Just off a long flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Los Angeles, California, the 15-time AMA Superbike race-winner drew a large crowd in Winner’s Circle at the unveiling of the Team Cycle World Attack Performance Yoshimura Suzuki AMA Pro [...]

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250cc Four-Stroke Motocross Lites Class of 2010 We rounded up five fabulous 250s and twisted throttles until our hands were blistered to figure out which one is the best Lites bike of 2010.

Don’t let displacement fool you: Not only have 250cc four-stroke motocrossers edged 125cc two-strokes out of the picture, they’ve pretty much created a class of their own. Sure, the Lites class still is full of the youthful spirit associated with 125cc bikes of the past, but the level of performance is higher than ever, thanks [...]

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MasterBike 2010: Which is the Best Liter-Bike for the Average Rider? For those of us who are not gifted superbike racers, Aprilia’s RSV4 Factory gets the nod as the most confidence-inspiring and fastest track bike.

I know Mark Cernicky, I have been on the track with Mark Cernicky, and you, sir, are (probably) no Mark Cernicky. Cernicky was a top privateer in 600 and 750cc AMA national roadracing once upon a time and won a slew of supermoto championships after that. The two guys who went quicker than MC at [...]

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2010 Suzuki RMX450Z – Video Suzuki’s fuel-injected RMX450Z offers solid, predictable handling with a good balance between agility and high-speed stability.

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MasterBike 2010 – Video BMW’s 180-horsepower S1000RR takes on the fastest, most-powerful Open-class sportbikes from Japan and Europe.

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250 Motocross Comparison: Cycle World Magazine Tests the New Crop of 250cc MXers Which of these five fabulous 250s is the best Lite bike of 2010?

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Team Cycle World Attack Performance Yoshimura Suzuki AMA Pro American SuperBike Four-time AMA national champ Eric Bostrom will race Team CW GSX-R1000.

Current AMA Pro Racing American SuperBike rules were instituted under the premise of establishing parity and reducing costs. Despite the political firestorm that engulfed nearly every aspect of the series last season, the changes appeared to work: No fewer than three riders—series champ Mat Mladin, Josh Hayes and Larry Pegram—scored multiple wins. All three, however, [...]

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MasterBike 2010 Mark Cernicky takes on MotoGP’s newest racetrack, Motorland Aragon, for the 11th running of Master Bike.

Aprilia RSV4 Factory Best Lap: 2:03.422 BMW S1000RR Best Lap: 2:03.662 Ducati 1198S Corse Best Lap: 2:04.819 Honda CBR1000RR Best Lap: 2:04.013 Kawasaki ZX-10R Best Lap: 2:03.848 KTM RC8R Best Lap: 2:03.834 MV Agusta F4 Best Lap: 2:04.329 Suzuki GSX-R1000 Best Lap: 2:04.509 Yamaha YZF-R1 Best Lap: 2:03.848

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MasterBike 2010: The Best European and Japanese Sportbikes Battle for Racetrack Supremacy In Spain BMW’s 180-horsepower S1000RR takes on the fastest, most-powerful Open-class sportbikes from Japan and Europe.

Photography by Motociclismo Like the big plans they started with when it came to carving the brand-spanking-new Motorland Aragón into the high-desert backcountry of Spain, I had big plans for MasterBike 11, back on schedule after a year off due to financial constraints and in streamlined form. Rather than being made of three classes—divided among [...]

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SX Pics: 2010 AMA Supercross, Round 4 The champ sits out while the young guns excel.

Photography by Jeff Allen One day before Round 4 of the 2010 Monster Energy AMA Supercross/FIM World SX Championship, San Manuel Yamaha rider James Stewart announced he had undergone surgery to fix the scaphoid bone in his right wrist that was broken in Phoenix and would not race in San Francisco. Despite his determined third-place [...]

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