Click the images below for bigger versions: 2012 Ducati Superbike For 2012, Ducati offers the standard 848EVO as a carry-over model, the mid-weight sportbike available in three colors – Arctic White Silk, Ducati Red and Black Stealth. The 848 received the “EVO” treatment in 2011, the engine up six horsepower to create 140 horsepower at [...]

Click the images below for bigger versions: 2012 Ducati Superbike For 2012, Ducati offers the standard 848EVO as a carry-over model, the mid-weight sportbike available in three colors – Arctic White Silk, Ducati Red and Black Stealth. The 848 received the “EVO” treatment in 2011, the engine up six horsepower to create 140 horsepower at [...]

By Andy Downes – General news  24 January 2012 14:32 In just a few weeks 15 teams will race 1000 miles across the frozen rivers of Siberia in a fleet of 1940s Russian Ural sidecar outfits with temperatures of as low as -40C. Competitors will have to find their own route to the finish line [...]

By MCN – General news  24 January 2012 15:58 You have until Midnight on Sunday to take advantage of the £20 ticket offer for the Carole Nash MCN Motorcycle show – £5 cheaper than the standard on-the-gate price and kids go FREE*. A standard ticket includes access to BOTH the exhibition plus the Revolution live action [...]

Triumph Tiger 1050 not a tourer?! By Robert Grant – First rides tests  24 January 2012 20:06 I dont know why you guys say the Tiger 1050 can’t go off road or isn’t a good tourer. Here is mine. It’s the best darn bike I’ve ever had. I can tour, track and do canyon runs [...]

Click the images below for bigger versions: 2012 AMA/Rekluse National Enduro Series This weekend, the first of 10 races in the 2012 AMA/Rekluse National Enduro Series begins with the Sumter National Enduro in South Carolina. And after along off-season of training and testing in Florida, the Fred Andrews Racing (FAR) team will once again compete [...]

Click the images below for bigger versions: 2012 World Superbike Prep The 2012 BMW Motorrad team of Marco Melandri and Leon Haslam wrapped up two days of testing at Valencia Thursday, lapping the circuit almost 600 miles combined on the new race version of the S1000RR. Throughout the World Superbike testing, the BMW Motorrad team [...]

Click the images below for bigger versions: AMA Supercross News It’s a sad day for James “Bubba” Stewart, the Joe Gibbs Racing Yamaha Supercross Team, and many across the motorcycle-racing industry. The somberness arrives from the passing of Stewart’s main motorcycle mechanic, Mark “Tex” Adams. The 28-year-old of Carrolton, Texas, was killed early Friday morning [...]

By Sam Loveridge- General news  25 January 2012 09:48 One of the world’s largest collections of classic Ducatis, comprising over 100 bikes, is to be sold at auction. The collection includes a 1970 Ducati 450 Desmo ‘Corsa’, which was on display in the Ducati Museum until recently and an ex-race 1974 Ducati 750 SS. They [...]

By Andy Downes – New bikes  25 January 2012 10:19 Ducati has finally started building the hotly-anticipated and all-new 1199 Panigale superbike at the Bologna factory this week. The Panigale is the all-new 200bhp 1200cc V-twin superbike the firm hopes will revolutionise the class when it’s launched in two weeks’ time in Dubai. MCN will [...]

By Steve Farrell – General news  25 January 2012 13:19 More than four out of five careless drivers who kill walk free from courts, an MCN investigation can reveal. All but 48 of the first 313 people sentenced for the new offence of causing death by careless driving avoided jail. The offence was created to [...]