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Isle of Man TT Press Release: Northern Ireland based road racing team owner John Burrows has moved quickly to replace Dan Kneen who moved to pastures new after spearheading the team’s 2014 Irish Superbike title winning efforts. Burrows has confirmed that Ulsterman Jamie Hamilton, who has a wealth of experience despite only being 23-years-old, will be his rider for the 2015 Isle of Man TT Races and other international as well as a full Irish championship campaign. He will race the team’s...

Corbin Press Release: “This has been at the top of our To-Do List for nearly a decade now,” said Greg Hurley, Director of Marketing at Corbin for over 20 years. “It has also been a highly requested feature from our customers as a means of visualizing their custom seat before ordering. Unfortunately the technology to do this properly has been beyond our reach… until now” reported Hurley. Hurley jumped on this project many years ago and has devoted a majority of his incredible IT experience...

Kawasaki Racing Team Press Release: The official Kawasaki Racing Team pairing of Tom Sykes and Jonathan Rea completed their last winter tests of the current year today at Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, having ridden their Ninja ZX-10Rs in a wide variety of weather and track conditions. New technical rules come into play for 2015 in the FIM Superbike World Championship and the tests at Jerez concentrated on optimizing a variety of new settings and components that were first tried at the...

The European Junior Cup will incorporate a new racing class for women as part of its 2015 season. Female racers competing in the EJC will earn points towards the series championship as well as points towards the new Women’s European Cup. The highest female point-scorer at the end of the season will be crowned the FIM Europe Women’s European Cup Champion. A supporting series at the eight European rounds of the World Superbike Championship, the EJC serves as a launching pad for young racing...

Roland Sands Designs Press Release: Finally a race driven Radial Mount Master Cylinder with a built in reservoir that works every bit as good as it looks. This master delivers stunning performance and feel for any bike without the need for an external reservoir and with classic RSD styling. With fully adjustable levers and clearance for stock switch housings, this versatile system will drastically improve your brake system from the master cylinder down. Features: - Racing driven radial...

I'm thankful that motorcycling showed me what life could really be. I have a confession: I'm a workaholic. I've always been one. If I'm not working, then I just don't know what to do with myself. I used to work without purpose. A few years ago after a series of unfortunate events, my life fell apart. Around this time, I bought a motorcycle: my 2007 Kawasaki Ninja 250. There's a great metaphor in how I learned to be a decent motorcyclist while I learned how to have a fulfilling life. There...

Aprilia Press Release: Three full days of work for the riders and the team marked the second time on the track for the Aprilia MotoGP project. After the Valencia tests two weeks ago Alvaro Bautista and Marco Melandri got back in the saddle of their Aprilia MotoGP bikes to prepare for the 2015 season. Once again the weather unfortunately conditioned the progress of the testing schedule, especially on the last day (Thursday), with continuous showers and a constantly wet track. Despite the...

Motocross Media Press Release: MX Sports Pro Racing and Alli Sports, a division of the NBC Sports Group, are pleased to announce that advance tickets for each round of the 2015 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship, sanctioned by AMA Pro Racing, are now on sale. The on-track excitement of the 2015 season kicks off on Saturday, May 16 as Northern California’s popular Hangtown Motocross Classic returns as opening round of America’s most prestigious professional motocross championship. The...

The efficiency of your brakes is misunderstood by almost everybody. You have heard, I'm sure, that the front brake provides about 70% of your stopping ability while the rear brake provides about 30%. NUTS!If you simply use the rear brake, and you stomp on the pedal to do so, you will get about 33% (or less) of the total stopping potential of your brakes. That, because you will immediately cause a weight transfer that unloads the rear and, thus, reduces traction which causes a skid and which...

Honda Motors Press Release: Achieving a milestone more than 65 years in the making, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today announced production of its 300-millionth motorcycle. The milestone bike is a Honda Gold Wing produced at the company’s Kumamoto Factory in Japan.  Honda will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic Gold Wing in 2015. Honda began mass production of motorcycles in Japan in 1949 when it built the Honda 98cc Dream Type-D. Today, Honda produces motorcycles, ATV’s and...