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Walker will test despite paralysis

Walker will test despite paralysis

Chris Walker will test his Kawasaki WSB bike this weekend despite continued problems with partial facial paralysis caused by Bell’s Palsy. Walker has been having treatment all week to try and...

Smart replaces injured McGuiness

Smart replaces injured McGuiness

Injured John McGuinness will be replaced by Scott Smart for this weekend’s crucial final test at Valencia before the start of the World Supersport season. McGuinness injured himself while filming a...

McCoy faces race to be fit

McCoy faces race to be fit

TOP GP rider Garry McCoy has been flown by private plane to Austria for a specialist assessment on a double break of his right leg. The Red Bull Yamaha 500 rider was airlifted from Estoril in Portugal...

Criville: I’ll be back… I hope

Criville: I’ll be back… I hope

Former world 500 champion Alex Criville’s ” retirement ” will be short-lived, if he can win his battle against fainting fits. Criville revealed his decision to pull out for at least six months, on...

Davies, 15, makes GP test debut

Davies, 15, makes GP test debut

Chaz Davies clocked the 29th fastest time on day one of the 125cc IRTA tests at Valencia, which conclude on Tuesday. British schoolboy Davies, 15, only completed 27 laps but managed a respectable time...

Walker’s face paralysed by illness

Walker’s face paralysed by illness

Chris Walker has partial paralysis of the face caused by a disease known as Bell’s Palsy. One of his eyes doesn’t blink, he can’t move his lips or swallow properly. He’s having to wear a patch over...

Dim view

Dim view

If she took the shades off you’d know where she was looking

Harada crashes in testing

Harada crashes in testing

Honda rider Tetsuya Harada’s 2002 world championship preparations have suffered a massive blow after he highsided his NSR500 and broke a collarbone in tests at Estoril. The former world 250 champion...

On a pedestal

On a pedestal

We can see right up your nose

Details of Ducati GP bike emerge

Details of Ducati’s GP V4 four-stroke are emerging and there is now confirmation that a road bike based on it " is in the plans " . First pictures of the race bike are expected to emerge in three to four weeks. They will show a Ducati unlike any other. The bike is currently being wind-tunnel tested to ensure optimum efficiency. It will have a long nose, a minimalist five-tube trellis frame and be...

So which company do you work for?

So which company do you work for?

” And this is Keiko from…erm….nope, sorry, who was it again? ”

Please stand up

Please stand up

The REAL Slim Shady?

Dobb sees off Pichon and Everts at Hawkstone

Dobb sees off Pichon and Everts at Hawkstone

World 125cc motocross champion Jamie Dobb dealt his rivals the first psychological blow of the season when he took his brand new KTM 250 to victory in all three of his races at the Hawkstone Park...

Roberts’ test feedback inspires next XRE0

Roberts’ test feedback inspires next XRE0

Suzuki is already working on the next generation of its XRE0 four-stroke engine based on feedback from Kenny Roberts and Sete Gibernau current winter testing at the Eastern Creek circuit in...

Suzuki & Kawasaki four-strokes have it all to do

Suzuki & Kawasaki four-strokes have it all to do

SUZUKI and Kawasaki look to have their work cut out to catch Valentino Rossi and the Honda V5 this season… or the next. All three factories tested at Sepang last week, and while Rossi and the RCV were...

The bottom line

The bottom line

You know where to come…

Plastic coated

Plastic coated

She was always good at the Rowntrees pastel challenge

Is that a bin bag she’s wearing

Is that a bin bag she’s wearing

Rubber wear or plastic bag?

Vuillemin pips RC for supercross win

Vuillemin pips RC for supercross win

DAVID VUILLEMIN stretched his points lead in the U.S. 250 supercross championship after passing Ricky Carmichael on the last lap in the final at the RCA Dome, Indianapolis. It was the Frenchman’s...

£10m Rossi THREE seconds under lap record

£10m Rossi THREE seconds under lap record

VALENTINO ROSSI and the new Honda RCV four-stroke have gone an incredible THREE SECONDS faster than lap record pace in tests at Sepang, Malaysia. The reigning world champ’s unprecedented performance...

Ray Stringer web chat: full transcript added

Ray Stringer web chat: full transcript added

Technical expert and boss of not one, but two British Superbike teams next year, Ray Stringer joined motorcyclenews.com users for a live webchat this on Thursday February 14. In between solving your...

Chat live with Neil Hodgson

Chat live with Neil Hodgson

WSB star Neil Hodgson will be in our VIP Lounge for a live web chat on Friday, February 22. The session will be held in the afternoon, as soon as he’s finished his first day of WSB testing at...

Criville announces retirement

Criville announces retirement

Former world 500 champion Alex Criville is retiring from racing. Criville, who became Spain’s first world 500 champion in 1999, was expected to hold a press conference during the second day of the...

Sorry to disappoint

Sorry to disappoint

Less Swedish porn than Swedish pop

Be her valentine?

Be her valentine?

Stop staring at her, and start dialling Interflora you fool!

Ride the TT without tears

Ride the TT without tears

The most accurate bike racing simulation of the TT ever is being promised by games maker Jester Interactive. It is being developed for the PlayStation 2 and will include every bump and ripple of the...

Modelling the new range

Modelling the new range

Available from your Littlewoods catalogue…

Ray Stringer: In his own words

R1basher: Hi Ray, I’m gonna be club racing a ’98 Blade in the open class…obviously I’m gonna be down on power against R1’s. The engine is currently standard, what sort of power do you think is achievable? RayStringer: Well basically it depends on how much money you want to spend. The best value for money is a good quality exhaust pipe, a set of flat-slides and an airbox. Gsxer400: What does it...

Belly nice

Belly nice

If you press that button, does it turn her on?

She sucks

She sucks

What do you think the Chupa Chups girls offer their riders?

Rutter Webchat: full transcript added

Rutter Webchat: full transcript added

Michael Rutter says he won’t be able to ride in the TT because of the Snetterton BSB, TT clash. ” I don’t know who, but there is someone in the wrong, ” he said. Rutter won’t be able to ride because...

Ducati reveals plan for V4 engine

Ducati reveals plan for V4 engine

Ducati has broken with its V-twin tradition with its proposed GP engine: It’s going to be a V4. And while company bosses were giving little away when they released the news at 3pm CET on February 4,...

Nods as good…

Nods as good…

She was strangely amused by the constant poking of her one good eye

Moodie back in the saddle

Moodie back in the saddle

It’s been more than a year, but Jim Moodie has finally returned to full-on riding action in preparation for the World Supersport season. He has been out of action recovering from a badly smashed...

R1 makes its BSB test debut

R1 makes its BSB test debut

Yamaha’s BSB R1 made its track debut at the Almeria circuit in Spain on Wednesday. Steve Plater completed over 100 laps of the 2.5-mile track in the cool and windy conditions and declared that the...

First Hodgson column of 2002

First Hodgson column of 2002

MCN has again signed up top British rider Neil Hodgson to write a regular column for us throughout the new World Superbike season. In the first instalment of 2002, Neil gives you a behind the scenes...