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April Fools is a day editorial people get to dream and dream big. Imagine a world where the most ridiculous things and you're biggest fantasies come true. For Motorcycle USA it was the ridiculous, for us, it was a dream we wish to be true.   We collected a handful of our favorite gags from around the inter webs and not just motorcycle related. Enjoy. Tax Break for Bikers Tax time have you down? Well, just in from Asphalt and Rubber, you can write off that expensive Arai helmet you just...

Now is the time to spring ahead! Reset your watches for the 2015 riding season and check out the complete Answer Racing collection. High tech combined with new colors highlight the newest apparel for one of the oldest names in the business. “Answer Racing has been producing the highest quality moto gear since 1976,” says Brand Manager Randy Valade. “We are pleased to keep that tradition rolling with the launch of our Spring Collection.” Highlighting the 2015 collection are two new colorways...

American Motorcyclist Association Press Release: With another long winter in our rearview mirrors, the American Motorcyclist Association encourages motorcyclists, both new and experienced, to accelerate into the riding season during AMA Go Ride! Month in April. “AMA Go Ride! Month is our annual reminder that motorcycling is the best way to experience this great country,” said AMA Chief Operations Officer Jeff Massey. “Whether you prefer the open highway, twisty backroads or forest trails,...

Every two years, the aptly named “Ironbutt” race takes place in the U.S over eleven days and 11,000 miles (17,700 km). Riders must hit a series of checkpoints in a very tight timeframe. Why does this matter to you, if you never plan to subject yourself to this kind of fun? Well, these folks know about surviving a really long ride. Here are some of their key hints. KNOW YOUR LIMITS If the longest you’ve ever ridden is 250 miles (400 km), don’t plan on a string of 1000-mile (1600-km) days....

News following the Qatar MotoGP race of Dani Pedrosa suffering from severe arm pump led to the subsequent news of Pedrosa seeking a third operation to try and cure it. Today it was reported by HRC that Pedrosa’s surgery was a success, the procedure taking two hours with the Spanish rider only needing general anesthetic.   The operation, aimed to fix Dani’s problematic arm pump, took just over two hours with Dr. Villamor confident of its success. During today’s surgery, Dr. Villamor...

What do you do when you can’t keep your engine’s piston(s) cool enough to survive? You enrich the mixture. The added fuel reduces combustion temperature, thereby reducing piston temperature. Back in the early days of air-cooled radial engines, before proper size and placement of cooling fins was understood, designers of such engines turned in desperation to “fuel cooling”—richening the mixture. And even when cooling became better understood, fuel cooling remained important during prolonged...

ANB Motorcycles have the pleasure to invite you to test ride their latest KTM, MotoGuzzi and Aprilia models for 3 consecutive days on the RPM track in Mtein.   KTM Track Testing: - RC 390 - Duke 390   Road test - KTM Super Adventure 1290  - KTM Adventure 1190  - KTM Super Duke 1290 - Aprilia Caponord Rally Edition - MotoGuzzi California Custom 1400 - MotoGuzzi V7 II   The event will be on the 4th 5th 6th of April from 8:00 AM till 12:00 PM     Bookings is a Must Please call...

"So what'd you do this weekend?"   After spending a day or two at the track, this becomes a surprisingly complicated question to answer. I'm not yet fast enough to go racing, so my weekends (or as likely weekdays) at the track are only for track days. They amount to skill and test sessions, for myself and my machine. Track days are not joy rides, for me. I'm there to learn about the track, the bike, and my riding technique. I'm there with a strategy to further polish my skills, until the...

Many older riders and a fair number of younger idealists love the look of engine cooling fins. As a small boy, I came to love their mysterious shapes when I saw them on airliner engines. Time-lapse photography of motorcycle engines from earliest days would show rudimentary black iron fins at first, quickly growing bigger and bigger as engineers learned to pull more and more power from engines, generating more and more waste heat. When iron fins grew so long that their tips became cool and...

To celebrate its newfound grit in 2015 Supersport (the support series in the FIM Superbike World Championship), MV Agusta has developed the new limited-edition F4 Reparto Corse. Only 250 of these hand-assembled F4 RCs will be built. MV Agusta says they weigh 15 lb. less than the F4 RR. Besides carrying the paint scheme from Leon Camier’s racer, the production F4 RC boasts lots of high-tech components. The 4-cylinder engine, which produces a claimed 212 horsepower at 13,600 rpm, is equipped...