Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd have confirmed the extension of Jorge Lorenzo’s contract to ride for the Yamaha Factory Racing MotoGP Team for 2013 and 2014, immediately quashing one of the rumours for hot seat swapping action at the end of the 2012 season after Casey Stoner announced his retirement from the sport at Le Mans.
Avon has been on the periphery of the sportsbike market for years now, while other tyres in their range got on with amply satisfying riders’ demands for sports touring, touring and cruisers. But they’re back in the performance market with a significant bang, launching three variants of their all-new 3D Ultra. We went to Almeria…
How great is all this sunshine? We hope you’ve been riding at every opportunity – we certainly have. Nonetheless, we’ve still found the time to put together another 148-page issue of Fast Bikes hedonism, tests, features, reviews, race news and pure sportsbike indulgence. We’ve also put together a fantastic armchair guide to the Isle of…
Last month I talked about treating the High-Ball to a more rebellious set of pipes. Victory’s 2012 accessories catalogue lists a number of suitable alternative Stage I exhaust systems. Two are rated best for performance, the Tri-Pro 2-into-1 with its triangular silencer and the X-Bow twin swept leaf cutters.
You can be forgiven for thinking that working in the motorcycle press gives you access to some of the most amazing ‘money can’t buy experiences’ and it has to be admitted that there are occasions when you have to pinch yourself. Last year one of my most treasured days for me was, you will be…
The new issue of Fast Bikes is in the shops now – and it’s a whopping 148 pages of addictive bike news, group tests, launches, riding advice, technical help, new product reviews, buying advice, and much much more…
The Club MSV Bike Trackday Trophy, in association with Fast Bikes, debuts this weekend with round one at Cadwell Park. Visit the new Bike Trackday Trophy website now to get up-to-the-minute information about what the series is, how you can be part of it, and what you need to do to take your trackday pace up a…
Reigning MCE Insurance British Superbike champion Tommy Hill was at Brands Hatch today to sample a Club MSV trackday ahead of the first Club MSV Track and Race Academy which kicks off at the Kent venue on 15 May.
Betcha never thought you’d see a bike with ape hangers anywhere near Fast Bikes, eh?! Some of you may have been following my adventures with a Victory Hammer muscle cruiser last year. The Hammer’s gone back but Victory were keen to see what we’d make of their new-for-2012 offering, the High-Ball. As the name suggests,…
The Thundersport GB circus rolls into Mallory Park this weekend for round three of the series. With 266 entries, it’s the largest motorcycle event at Mallory for sometime, and big players such as Dan Kneen and John Ingram get their last run outs before heading to the TT. And now the JHS Racing SV650 is…
Preparations are hotting-up here at Fast Bikes for the fast-approaching opener of the Trackday Trophy at Cadwell Park on April 29th. On Monday, Roots, Beej, Beaky and I all headed up to Brands Hatch to earn our right to wear the ACU’s Orange vest. I got the feeling that this was pretty much a walk…
With a cold and wet slippery BSB opener at the Easter weekend one of the guys that had no downtime at all was the Shoei Race Technician, Paul Mousell. This guy works more weekends than Terry Wogan and Easter kicks off a race season that sees him at every round of BSB, two WSB rounds,…
