AMASBK: Pata Yamaha Concludes Successful Portimão Test Yamaha Racing Press Release: Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team has concluded its first two-day test of 2016 successfully at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portugal with both Alex Lowes and Sylvain Guintoli undertaking valuable work with their YZF-R1‘s. Initially worried about the rehabilitation of his left shoulder, […]

MC Tested: SnapJack Motorcycle Rearstand ©Motorcyclist SnapJack Rearstand Tirox Products‘ innovative, compact, and effective way to raise your bike’s rear end for maintenance. Sometimes you have to think outside the box to find a solution to a problem. For Basil Andrews at Tirox, his problem was finding a compact, packable solution for elevating a bike’s […]

Paddock Pass Podcast – Episode 15 – Listener Questions Filling the lull of the motorcycle racing off-season, Episode 15 of the Paddock Pass Podcast sees David, Steve, and Neil answering listener questions that were submitted via Twitter. The guys cover everything from what rider apparel they have bought (and what happens when you show up […]

Gallery: Pata Yamaha Team Shows Off New Look Photo Courtesy of Yamaha Yamaha makes its return to World Superbikes in 2016 with a mixture of youth and experience – (left to right) Sylvain Guintoli and Alex Lowes. While for the Movistar Yamaha MotoGP team it was a lot of same ol’, same ol,’ that definitely […]

CW 30 Years Ago: January 1986 Futureshock! Suzuki‘s stunning concept bike, the FalcoRustyco (Latin for “white falcon”), was prominent on the cover of this month’s issue. Newsstand buyers were enamored with this sleek, center-hub-steered, 400cc square-Four with its unique hand controls and fluid-drive transmission. Decades later, this issue remains the single best-selling edition in history […]

TZ750 REVISITED: The Chassis I spent ten years (1974-83) with the Yamaha TZ750 but find I have no nostalgia for it. What looked so promising and purposeful (it was!) in 1974 and 1976 (the year of the factory 0W-31 redesign) now looks like a hodge-podge of anachronisms. Listing them reminds me of all that has […]

Video: This Is What It Looks Like to Break a Track Record on a Honda CBR300R If you ever wondered what it looked like to push a single-cylinder Honda CBR300R to its absolute limits, then this video recently uploaded by Sport Rider‘s sister publication, Motorcyclist Magazine, is definitely worth a watch. In it, Senior Road […]

Roding Roadster R1 by Dähler Design & Technik First launched in 2008, Roding Automobile is a German automaker that presented an alternative sports car, presumably aimed for hipster auto enthusiasts who preferred going against the grain with their performance car choices. Thus, the two-seater Roding Roadster R1 was born. Since its creation, the Roadster still […]