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Goodspeed 500 Garage Racing Series

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Professional racing in the parking garages of Europe, well, semi professional, perhaps, but interesting for sure. The website conjures the image of an elite yet friendly way to compete and blow off a bit of steam, a "gentleman's racing" series or perhaps a Fight Club on bikes. Their code of conduct, however, lays out rules which seem to keep everyone in line which is a good … [Read more...]

KillaCycle Electric Dragbike Runs 8.76 Quarter Mile

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The KillaCycle team has been working on their electric drag bike for some years now and it has gone through many evolutionary changes. Designed and constructed by engineer Bill Dube’ it now has a battery pack from A123 Systems consisting of 880 2.3 amp-hr Lithium Ion cells. Each 3.4 volt cell puts out 150 amps! If you're not an electrically oriented person, trust me, that's … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Racing March 10th – 11th on SpeedTV

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The racing season kicks off this weekend on SpeedTV: All times eastern time zone Saturday March 10th: AMA Superbike 11:00AM (live) AMA Formula Xtreme (Daytona 200) 1:30PM (live) Sunday March 11th: MotoGP 250cc 5:00PM MotoGP 800cc 6:00PM Lots of good racing on tap. … [Read more...]

MotoGP – New Season – New Engines

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The MotoGP season will begin in Qatar, March 10th and the official test session in Jerez gave us a glimpse of what all of the new bikes and smaller engines will mean, ... faster bikes and lower lap times. In the pre season test, where Valentino Rossi ran the fastest lap followed by Pedrosa, Edwards and Hayden, the top riders were riding under the lap record. Rossi said his bike … [Read more...]

Buell Planning Competition Dirt Bikes?

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Browsing a couple of the Buell forums, I found several references to a Buell dealer meeting that just took place. In that meeting, the dealers were told that Buell was planning to introduce a complete line of competition dirt bikes within two years. Details were sketchy, what engine would be used was not disclosed, whether these would be derivatives of current bikes or totally … [Read more...]

Indian Autorickshaw Challenge

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For some, the challenge is a race like the Baja 1000 or perhaps the Paris Dakar Rally, but to the truly adventurous, there is the Indian Autorickshaw Challenge, this year with a route covering 1191 miles in 13 days, it literally defines extreme sport. Should you decide to take part, you'll be driving a race prepared 145cc, 7 horsepower, single cylinder two stroke autorickshaw, … [Read more...]