Valentino Rossi’s love affair with the Catalunya track near Barcelona continued today when then Italian topped the practice leaderboard to deny home heroes Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez. The nine-times world champion has an incredible record at Catalunya with 10 MotoGP podiums, including six wins, and the 34-year-old shone in scorching hot conditions today. A best lap of ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- MotoGP
- 14 June 2013
BMW Motorrad UK have launched a special finance offer for its new F700 and F800 GS models. This means that it's now possible to purhcase the new F700 GS, which updates the F 650 GS with increased power and ABS as standard, for just £84.99 per month. The newly released, F800 GS is available for just a little more, at a ...
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- General news
- 14 June 2013
- Rate My Bike
- 12 June 2013
Yesterday, Yamaha announce their all-new 850cc street-focused triple, the MT-09. It’s an all-new naked middleweight designed specifically for the European market with a brand-new 850cc transverse three-cylinder engine, upright riding position, distinctive styling – and a hugely attractive price tag of just £6799. Yamaha took the unusual step of publicly admitting at the 2012 Cologne motorcycle show it wasn’t doing enough ...
- Motorcycle News
- New bikes
- 12 June 2013
An all-new 850cc street-focused triple for just £6799? Meet the future of Yamaha… Yamaha have released details of one of their most important new bikes in decades, the MT-09. It’s an all-new naked middleweight designed specifically for the European market with a brand-new 850cc transverse three-cylinder engine, upright riding position, distinctive styling – and a hugely attractive price tag of ...
- Motorcycle News
- New bikes
- 11 June 2013
In this week's MCN, out June 12, we have the round-up of TT fortnight, with all the latest news. McGuinness takes maybe his greatest win ever, as the old master proves he's still fast. Also this week: We have an exclusive on Yamaha's new 850cc triple and we test BMW's F800GS Adventure. In sport: As well as all the latest ...
- Motorcycle News
- General news
- 11 June 2013
Suzuki will get a clear understanding of the size of the task it faces to be a competitive force in MotoGP again when it pitches its new 1000cc MotoGP contender against Honda and Yamaha in Spain next week. Randy de Puniet completed a successful shakedown of the new bike in Japan recently and Suzuki is poised to kick off a ...
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- MotoGP
- 11 June 2013
- Rate My Bike
- 06 June 2013
- Rate My Bike
- 05 June 2013
Bradley Smith ended the toughest weekend of his MotoGP career with a gutsy ride to ninth place before heading off to fix up his battered and bruised body. Huge high-side crashes on cold tyres in Friday’s FP2 and yesterday morning’s pre-race warm-up session meant Smith started the 23-lap feeling like he’d been in a bar room brawl. The most severe ...
- Motorcycle Sport
- MotoGP
- 03 June 2013
