Kawasaki Shows How Bike Commercials Should Be Made
13 May 2013, 14:33 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here's a piece of truth which seems almost obsolete in the world of motorcycle commercials: bikes have been created to be ridden. Period. Kawasaki has never forgotten this and that's why t...
Argentina's New MotoGP Circuit Closer to FIM Approval
12 May 2013, 07:23 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Argentina continues the preparations at Termas de Rio Hondo, the place where MotoGP races will be hosted as the country will enter the official calendar. The facility is under construction, but t...
Should We Prepare Husqvarna's Obituaries?
10 May 2013, 15:41 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I am really sad each time I hear about a nice bike builder kicking the bucket, and with all the economic turmoil around the planet during the last years, it looks like major changes are about to tak...
Ducati Only 5% Down in Q1, Monster Sells Best
10 May 2013, 06:58 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Audi shows the first sales reports for Q1 2013 and we now see that the Borgo Panigale is some 5.2% down, a rather good figure compared to the estimated 17% worldwide decrease in motorcycle sales. ...
2013 R1200GS and S1000RR Drive the BMW Growth in the US
9 May 2013, 11:25 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / BMW has announced the financial figures for the first quarter of the year and it's the new; liquid-cooled R1200GS who drives things up. BMW reported 37.8% growth for the profit before financ...
Harley-Davidson Rumored to Stop Shipping the CVO Breakout
8 May 2013, 15:07 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Insightful bike blogger Cyril Huze has just got wind that Harley-Davidson is rumored to have advised some of their dealers that no more 2013 CVO Breakout machines will be shipped for a while, with n...
Zero Motorcycles Announces MMX, the Military Electric Bike
8 May 2013, 11:31 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / After building special bikes for the Police and Security forces, Zero Motorcycles announces their first machine for the military, dubbed the MMX. The Zero MMX has been developed as exclusive mach...
2013 WSBK: BMW S1000RR and Chaz Davies Wind Tunnel Positioning Tweaks
7 May 2013, 15:08 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Following Marco Melandri's similar procedure last year, BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team rider Chaz Davies (currently 3rd in the 2013 WSBK standings with 83 points) is in Munich, Germany, in BMW&#...
Ossa Announces Two New Trial Bikes
7 May 2013, 14:49 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Legendary Spanish trial bikes manufacturer Ossa announces two new models, thus expanding the ranks of their competition machines to 6. The newest members of the Ossa family are the Factory 125 and t...
Harley-Davidson Ditches 6 Models for 2014
3 May 2013, 12:05 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Harley-Davidson has announced they'll be discontinuing several models for 2014. Out of the total of 6 bikes which will be sacked, 2 are going to receive major updates, while the remaining 4 ...
New Royal Enfield Plant Starts Production
3 May 2013, 07:10 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Good news come from the Indian motorcycle business as Royal Enfield announce they've just started production in their newest facility near Chennai. The new plant was built in only 11 months ...
Italian Husqvarna Plant Shuts Down, Production Moves to Austria
2 May 2013, 15:36 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Bad and sad news for the region of Varese, Italy, as the new owner of Husqvarna, Pierer Industries AG (a company owned by KTM CEO Stefan Pierer) announced that the Italian production facility will b...
KTM and Husaberg Recalled for Throttle Cable Issues
30 Apr 2013, 14:06 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here's a recently recall for several KTM and Husaberg off-road bikes, but it seems like there is nothing to be too worried about. Given the fact that Husaberg are under the KTM umbrella, s...
Is Husqvarna Dying?
30 Apr 2013, 10:50 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Bad news from Husqvarna, as GPOne and A&R report: the Husqvarna operations in Varese, Italy have been brought to a halt, after major problems have been discovered. Husqvarna has recently chan...
Harley-Appleson and the Factory of Dreams
27 Apr 2013, 07:18 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Being in the business of selling dreams must be pretty nice, and when it comes to the the field I work in it was really hard not to think about two of the largest dream-sellers on the planet: Harley...
Hyosung Plans Small-Displacement Bikes for India
26 Apr 2013, 06:58 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Korean manufacturer Hyosung and their local operations partner in India, DSK Motowheels are planning to enter the fiercest segment in the Asian markets: the 125-150cc class. Already established a...
Ural Shows 11% Sales Growth in Q1 2013
25 Apr 2013, 15:17 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / It may be hard to believe for some one, but here's the facts: historic bike Russian manufacturer Ural reports a nifty 11 per cent sales increase in the first quarter of 2013, over the same figu...
Claudio Domenicali Replaces Gabriele del Torchio as Ducati CEO
23 Apr 2013, 10:12 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / The rumors of (already) ex-Ducati CEO Gabriele del Torchio leaving the Borgo Panigale crew were true, as Ducati has announced their new CEO in the person of Claudio Domenicali. Domenicali was par...
KTM Does Not Want to Enter MotoGP
19 Apr 2013, 13:53 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Many discerning riders who have tested KTM's top road racing beast, the RC8R, said that the bike could be a wonderful starting point for building a new MotoGP prototype. However, KTM stays outs...
Spy Video of the New BMW R1200GT
18 Apr 2013, 10:10 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here's a really chunky piece of footage recorded by German blogger Anscharius and showing us a HD close-up of the future BMW R1200RT machines. However, the author of this video names the bikes ...