Motorcycle Sport & Racing News

Britain’s Mark Loram will definitely miss Britain’s bid to make the speedway world cup final.Loram, the 2000 world individual champion, crashed head-first into the starting gate as Britain slipped to...

Sean Emmett’s dream of winning the 2002 British Superbike title has taken a battering following the announcement this week that his IFC Ducati team had run out of cash.For more details on Emmett’s...

Britain’s speedway team will have to battle through a last-chance qualifier this week if they are to be crowned world champions.They finished second in a rain-shortened qualifying round at Sheffield’s...

We’re not just saying that because she is tall, blonde and has pigtails…

Michael Rutter took an overall win in a two-part MCN British Superbike race one at Thruxton today ahead of Steve Hislop and Sean Emmett in third.Rain called a halt just as pole man Rutter had built up...

Well I was in a crowd scene….now look at me….

Sweden will join Australia in the speedway world cup final at Peterborough on Saturday.The Swedes, led by world individual champion Tony Rickardsson, cruised past Denmark, Finland and Hungary at...

Brolly girls can be awfully competitive when it comes to rich and athletic racers

With such lovely girls on the grid, nobody seemed to have noticed that the bikes were missing…

Britain narrowly missed out on the final places for the World Speedway final on August 10 on Thursday night.An on-form Czech Republic took the win with Denmark snaring the final qualification...

MCN are very sorry to announce, that due to circumstances beyond our control, we will not be able to host the webchat with Chris Walker originally scheduled for Thursday August 8.Unfortunately...

These are the first pictures from Ducati’s debut track test of both its V4 Desmosedici MotoGP machine and 999 World Superbike at Mugello. You can read about the test in detail in the next issue of...

Someone’s dropped a fiver…

Fans of off-road riding can breathe more easily - off-road bikes will escape tough new emission laws - until 2005 at least. The Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations won the reprieve after...

That free brolly babe is one hell of an incentive

Troy will be back on the FP-1, but in the meantime here’s a reminder of when he was a podium regular.

Do you think they need a shepherd?

AMA Superbike contender Nicky Hayden and Indy Car racer Michael Andretti are going to swap their race machines in a one-off test at the Mid-Ohio track in America.Hayden will get to drive the Motorola...

Colin Edwards and his Cabin teammate Daijiro Kato lead a clean sweep of the podium at the Suzuka Eight Hour on Sunday. You can read about Honda’s Suzuka victory in more detail in the latest issue of...

Colin Edwards has been drafted in as a last minute replacement for the injured Tohru Ukawa in Honda’s Suzuka Eight-Hour squad on August 4.The Texan will partner Daijiro Kato on a Cabin SP-2. Edwards...

Carlos Checa has extended his contract with Yamaha to run for another two years. He will continue the ride the YZR-M1 that has taken him to fifth so far this season. The 29-year old Spaniard has raced...

Pere Riba says his broken leg won’t be 100 per cent in time for the Czech GP at Brno on August 25, but he’s going to race anyway. Riba says; " I’m feeling better and my condition is improving. I...

Ricky Carmichael is still on track for a perfect season in the AMA 250 Motocross championship, taking the win at Washougal, Washington on Sunday July 28.Carmichael now has nine overall wins to his...

Neither do we, which is why the next few days will be a Brands brolly babe extravaganza

Terrible thing when your hair needs protection from the sun

While most 17-year-olds are happy lashing on another nasty bit of bodged Astra bodykit, Tony Waistnage is about to make history as the youngest ever British Superbike rider.He makes his debut in the...

Chris Walker has signed to ride alongside James Toseland for GSE Racing in World Superbikes for 2003.You can read more details of Walker’s deal in the latest issue of MCN, out Wednesday July 31.The...

Aaron Yates has won the 2002 AMA Supersport championship at Mid-Ohio on Sunday, but his delight was cut short as the Blimpie Yoshimura Suzuki rider crashed in the AMA Superbike race, badly gashing his...

5.15pm. European Superstocks Part 2:Chris Burns emphatically won the second part of the delayed European Superstock race to take the overall win by three and a half seconds from Murphy. Third was...

But sadly it’s more likely to be for drinks and chip butties

In Italy, even the petrol station attendants are gorgeous

She’s simply mesmerised listening to the tales of adventure and excitement that makes up life at MCN

With his eighth straight overall victory, Ricky Carmichael has equalled the AMA Motocross record for consecutive wins, and in the process claimed a new national record by winning every single moto...

The British Superbikes series could soon witness the new GP2-spec bikes. GP2, which will eventually support the MotoGP class, limits engine tuning to Supersport levels, but allows a free-reign when it...

It’s a hard choice to choose just one of Ducati’s gorgeous range of models…