Cycle World online has coverage of the 1st motorcycle concours held at the Ritz-Carlton resort in Half Moon Bay, California. This was billed as the motorcycle version of the Pebble Beach Concours for the auto world, and it looks like it lived up to its hype. There are lots of good pictures and coverage of [...]

Indian is back in business and is planning on introducing a new Chief in 2007. The Plant will be located in Cleveland county near Charlotte, NC. Here is some info from their press release-

Kings Mountain, NC (July 20, 2006) – Indian® Motorcycle Company is pleased to announce that it will be revving up its engine [...]

 MotoGP wasn’t the only thing happening yesterday. Motocross was running too and Carmichael won again, as usual. From Speed- 
Lakewood, Colorado – 7/24/2006 Makita Suzuki’s Ricky Carmichael added another win to an almost unbelievable collection of career AMA National victories when he went 1-1 for his 141st career AMA National win and sixth consecutive AMA Motocross win of the [...]

Bikes in the Fast Lane has an amazing video of a guy getting hit by a car at a pretty high speed and walking away from it. It is crazy. Thankfully the guy seems OK- at least for the moment. I bet he was hurting the next day.

From the AP- Guys like this are amazing.
MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — Motorcycle daredevil Trigger Gumm crashed Sunday while attempting a world-record motorcycle jump at a northeast Oklahoma casino.
Gumm, 38, fell far short of his attempted goal of 315 feet. Riding a 450cc Service Honda outfitted with a custom-built engine and specially designed shocks, Gumm hit [...]

Well the big weekend is over and some new content is up at various sites. Speed has a recap of the MotoGP race here. There are lots of rider and team members comments that make for some intersting reading. Enjoy.

Nicky Hayden ran away with the US MotoGP at Laguna Seca and extended his points lead to 34 in the championship series. It was extremely hot and the track was less than ideal with the pavement breaking up in places, but Hayden got the job done. Speed has the full story.

From crash.net
1. Nicky Hayden USA Repsol Honda Team 45min 4.867 secs
2. Dani Pedrosa SPA Repsol Honda Team 45min 8.053 secs
3. Marco Melandri ITA Fortuna Honda 45min 15.796 secs
4. Kenny Roberts Jr USA Team Roberts 45min 16.808 secs
5. Chris Vermeulen AUS Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 45min 32.306 secs
6. John Hopkins USA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP 45min 43.687 secs
7. [...]

Yesteday’s Superbike race at Laguna Seca was run in record-breaking heat and Ben Spies added another win for a total of 8 this year. The final finish order was-
1. Ben Spies (Yoshimura Suzuki)
2. Tommy Hayden (Kawasaki)
3. Neil Hodgson (Ducati)
4. Miguel Duhamel (Honda)
5. Aaron Yates (Yoshimura Suzuki)
6. Mat Mladin (Yoshimura Suzuki)
7. Ben Bostrom (Ducati)
8. Jake Zemke [...]

One of the things I love about bikes is the acceleration. Admit it- accelerating hard on a fast bike is addicting. But I came across some info on Top Fuel dragsters at Automobile and it is pretty interesting stuff. I think the article is pretty old, but still relevant.

One Top Fuel dragster’s 500-cubic-inch Hemi engine [...]

The riders racing at Laguna Seca this weekend are all complaining about the newly repaved track claiming that it is ruined and will need to be done over. Cycle News has the whole story.
From Yoshimura Suzuki’s Ben Spies: “It’s just a shame to see because it’s such a fun track. It’s one of our best tracks [...]

From the Washington Press-
Italy’s Ducati Motor Holding SpA, a storied motorcycle company, will temporarily dismiss 100 workers. 
The action, which was planned as a response to a seasonal sales dip, begins Sept. 1 and is expected to last four months, Ducati said in a statement Friday. 
“Lowering production … is necessary to avoid creating high stock levels [...]

Kenny Roberts Jr. lead the pace on Friday with a best time of 1:23.859 which was considerably faster than the rest of the field by MotoGP standards. All the racers complained about how bumpy the newly repaved track is- which makes it tough to tune the suspension. Nicky Hayden had the 2nd quickest lap at [...]

Streetbike sales were up a whopping 30.8% in January compared to the same month in 2005.  Overall, streetbike sales for the first quarter were up 8.6% from 2005, with 134,557 sold.  Dual-purpose bikes also showed a dramatic increase, up 27.4% from the first quarter of 2005 for sales of 7,185.  Off-road motorcycle sales had a [...]

This week we are featuring a 2001 Ducati Monster 900Sie that is owned by Vicki Smith of Ducati.net and was one of the bikes in the Guggenheim “Art of the Motorcycle” show. I know the bike since I owned it and painted it before she bought it. It is black with a silver stripe down the middle [...]