Flat track racing is the home of Harley Davidson XR750s, they’re born and bred for it, so what’s this Yamaha R1 doing winning the race? Wade Boyd did just that this past weekend at the Sacramento Mile in one of the heats, and the video below shows some great racing where the R1 just reels [...]
Motorcycle Racing
Although the speed record at Bonneville for recumbent, fully enclosed streamliner motorcycles is higher, last weekend, at the old Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine, Bill Warner, of Winauma, Florida, aimed his turbo Hayabusa down the 1 1/2 mile runway and ran 311.945 mph, beating his old record of 273.356 mph set last year. [...]
Do you remember the Ace Fireball 535, the high performance kit for your Royal Enfield Bullet from Chumma Gee and Tom Lyons? Chumma told me a few months ago about a couple of very interesting projects soon to get under way, and yesterday I had a long telephone conversation with Chumma who filled me in [...]
Honda introduced their new NSF250R racer for the Moto3 class beginning in 2012. The 250cc 4 stroke single will be replacing the RS125R 2 stroke and, from the description and specs, it’s just as diminutive as the old 125. From the tech side of things, the 185 pound racer makes about 47 horsepower with a [...]
