Now officially news, Danilo Petrucci is headed to the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship for the 2022 season, on a Warhorse HSBK Ducati.
The MotoGP test is Sepang is a bad predictor of who will win the season, but it’s still our first look at how the grand prix championship is going to shake out.
Harley-Davidson sold 2,500 Pan America 1250 motorcycles last year. Is that a lot or a little? We dive into an analysis of the figure for our A&R Pro readers.
KTM is bringing two new naked bikes to market this month, with an updated KTM 890 Duke R and new KTM 890 Duke GP coming in the next few weeks.
Episode 261 of the Paddock Pass Podcast is out, and this one sees us with a special guest on the mics – former pro MX/SX racer Jason Thomas.
If you have a Harley-Davidson Pan America 1250 or Harley-Davidson Sportster S in your garage, then your bike is likely affected by this latest recall.
In our latest look at road racing in the United States, we talked to Jake Gagne about the challenges facing…
Wet conditions for the Emilia-Romagna GP at Misano caused some issues for MotoGP riders.
The first race of the 2019 WorldSBK Championship was quite the sight! As such, here are some photos from Saturday at Phillip Island.
What’s the difference between you and me? The Suzuka 8-Hours is dominated by Bridgestone tire. Why is that? And what is the difference between a Bridgestone a Pirelli, and a Michelin at this iconic race? Even the most talkative factory riders get tight-lipped when the topic of tires is raised. Jonathan Rea was asked after securing pole position for tomorrow’s Suzuka 8-Hours about the feeling he has with Bridgestone tires, compared to using Pirelli rubber in WorldSBK. The three-time world champion sidestepped that landmine with customary ease by saying, “both are very high performance tires.” It was a similar situation when talking with MotoGP riders about comparing to Michelin tires in recent years. There are, however, some outliers in the paddock.
Asphalt & Rubber was recently one of a few blogs, along with the usual suspects from the American media, to be invited out to Arizona for Yamaha’s press launch of the Super Ténéré adventure-tourer motorcycle (because we know Americans have no idea what to do with an accented “e”, think “tay-nay-ray” for pronunciation…or just cheat like us and say “ten-air-ray”). Riding through the deserts and forests of Arizona, we logged over 300 miles on the Super Ténéré, as we put the adventure bike through its paces.
Phrenology is a passé theory in psychology that centered around the belief that you could understand a person’s mental faculties…
