Motorcycle News

Click here to buy the lead image. In December we published a special supplement in association with Dunlop celebrating that never-say-die fighting spirit at the heart of motor sport. There…

Maverick Viñales topped last week’s MotoGP tests, but it may take a while before he’s on top for real It was no great surprise when Maverick Viñales showed the rest…

A round up of the biggest and best stories from Motor Sport in the past week. In the past few weeks Mark Hughes travelled to Rome for an interview with…

Are Ducati’s MotoGP winglets a good idea? Many think not. Which is why they may soon be banned. Motorcycle racing exists for various reasons, but primarily because people want to…

A tantalising teaser trailer has been released of the forthcoming Sheene movie, which you can view below. Based on the book Barry: The Story of Motorcycling Legend Barry Sheene by…

The nine-time champion hasn’t just changed his riding style to stay on top; he’s changed his whole lifestyle I watched Easy Rider on the plane home from Sepang and thought…

Honda’s RC213V engine is a wild thing, but this is not an unusual problem for them to solve. Here’s why… Many people will tell you the most important things about…

The balance of MotoGP is set for a dramatic change as the bias moves from the front of the bike to the rear Next week MotoGP undergoes its biggest technical…

Fighting spirit is at the heart of motor sporting endeavour. Achievement in the face of adversity is what inspires us, and ‘digging deep’ to find that extra level of performance…

Yamaha has launched its 2016 factory team and hostilities between its riders are already fizzing I don’t usually do team launches. They are the exact opposite of racing: totally safe…

Why Ian Hutchinson beat Britain’s latest world champions to win Britain’s biggest biking gong Each year dozens of motorcyclists win world championships of every shape and form but very few…

Last year MotoGP suffered its saddest loss since the death of Marco Simoncelli in 2011. Talented racer and genius engineer Warren Willing passed away on September 5 following a long…

Our fourth and final Hall of Fame blog looks at Oxley’s own top-three all-time greats It is a foolish and impossible task, of course, but that’s no reason not to…

The third of our four Hall of Fame blogs examines the dazzling skills of the so-called natural riders: Freddie Spencer, Kevin Schwantz and Casey Stoner People often talk about naturally…

Who to blame for the poisonous end to the 2015 MotoGP season: (in alphabetical order!) Jorge Lorenzo, Marc Márquez or Valentino Rossi? Or how about none of them? How about…

I blame it on Kenny Roberts, but it would’ve happened anyway. When ‘King’ Kenny arrived in Europe in the late 1970s he upped the ante: he rode harder, trained harder…

It used to be a source of mild irritation that motor racing in north-west England shut down in October while continuing elsewhere (mostly at Brands Hatch, far beyond comfortable cycling…