A hybrid machine--powered at times by steam, electricity or internal combustion--the motorcycle in its infancy was an innovation to help bicycle racers go faster. As motor age technology advanced, the quest for greater speed at the velodrome peaked, with riders reaching up to 100 mph on pedal-started bikes without brakes, suspensions or gear ......
Motocourse 2021 Grand Prix & Superbike Calendar features top riders in full-color action from Grand Prix and World Superbike racing. Featured riders include Marc Marquez, Valentino Rossi, Cal Crutchlow, Jack Miller, Andrea Dovizioso, Alex Rins, Fabio Quartararo, Chaz Davies,Alex Lowes, Scott Redding, Tom Sykes, Loris Baz, Maverick Vinales and ......
• Our 70s Superbikes 2021 premium calendar features 13 pages in total.
• 4-months from the previous year at the start on a planner page.
• Included within are 13 full colour images.
• Featuring a large grid for entering important ......
Carousel Calendars offer a hugely diverse range of square wall calendars which feature amazing photography and large month-to-view grids with plenty of space for writing.
A classic superbike is a motorcycle which has universal appeal, regardless of your age or riding experience. Its the bike you dream of riding - or dream about having a dream about riding! Classic Superbikes are achingly desirable even to non-motorcyclists.
Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday. Hondas voracious success on track and showroom in the late Sixties turned them into world no 1. However, in the Seventies race winners were two-strokes; Honda didnt do two-strokes and sales were flagging. Rather than race a two-stroke Honda designed an immensely complicated bike to beat the two-strokes, the ......
Scooter sales had already peaked in Britain by the mid-1960s - led by the likes of the Lambretta and Vespa. Originally designed as transportation for commuters, the scooter came to be seen more as a vehicle for leisure. Ownership shifted to the younger generation and their appetite for speed and power was insatiable. Shops appeared offering ......
Relive the highs and lows of a thrilling WorldSBK season in the Official 2019 Yearbook, including round by round analysis of all three World Championship classes. Whether you are a fan of Kawasaki or Ducati, green or red, Rea or Bautista, 2019 had something for everyone and ultimately produced one of the greatest duels in WorldSBK history. A ......
Possesses a long, successful history, now in its 44th market-leading year. The best in race-by-race coverage from the spectacular Moto GP series and the hugely popular World Superbike Championship, these series are complimented with chapters on the British and American Superbike Championships and also details the classic Isle of Man TT, it is ......
2019 saw Marc Márquez take a record 420 points as he secured his eighth World title overall and his fourth consecutive MotoGPTM World Championship.
It was also the year fans got to salute Jorge Lorenzo as the three-time World Champion called an end to his stellar MotoGPTM career.
As one hero exited the pitlane, it looked as ......
Historic, wildly dangerous, nerve-wracking, heroic and uniquely thrilling, the Isle of Man TT is one of the greatest sporting events in the world. Featuring input from past and present riders, TT teams, manufacturers and fans alike, James Driver-Fisher reveals why the Isle of Mans greatest ever races mean so much to so many TT devotees. The ......
The biggest classic motorcycle racing festival turned up the volume in 2019 to celebrate the unique history of the Isle of Man’s TT Mountain Course.
Over 37 miles, the course follows a sinuous route along public roads as it loops all the way around – and over – the picturesque Manx countryside.
Racing has taken place on ......
The Southern 100 Road Races could have been renamed the Dean Harrison road races in 2019 as the Bradford star dominated proceedings in the solo classes.
With Jamie Coward, Michael Dunlop, Dom Herbertson and Ryan Kneen to keep Dean honest, the meeting was never going to be a dull one, especially when you add the epic sidecars into the ......
“The SuperEnduro Series is the World’s premiere indoor, off-road, two-wheel series on the planet!”
SuperEnduro relies on a simple formula: combine the most extreme elements of off-road racing with top racers and do it indoors!
SuperEnduro is off-road concentrated where competitors showcase their skills up close and ......
The real Burt Munro, inventor of the worlds fastest Indian motorcycle, in his own words. A fascinating collection of Burt Munro memorabilia including photos from his family album, newspaper clippings, and interviews with Burt himself, this book reveals the real Burt Munro - the man behind the movie. Roger Donaldson has been studying Burt Munro ......
Welcome to a world that is both vanishing down the end of the straight and yet tantalizingly close at hand. The great thing about superbikes is that they are accessible. By definition, race regulations give you the chance to ride bikes which are very like those that are sweeping all before them on the track. Rules for the Superbike World ......
At 10 oclock on the twenty-eighth of May 1907 the first Isle of Man Tourist Trophy motorcycle road race began. The riders pushed off on their 500cc single cylinder bikes and ten laps and 158 miles later, Charlie Collier aboard a Matchless would be declared the victor. This book is a history and celebration of the bikes of those early years of ......
Since its first release in 2008, the official book of the Superbike World Championship has been an indispensible resource for all fans of the championship reserved for production derived bikes, the championship for bikes you can buy from your local dealer. Like every year, this book opens with a chapter devoted to the winner of the World ......
The widely acclaimed Race Across The Great Divide explores why Australia became a crucible for some of the best riders in world championship motorcycle history, and how it created the world’s longest-running and most successful race category, Superbikes.
Authors Don Cox and Darryl Flack chronicle motorcyclings spread across Australias ......
2018 saw more history made in Moto2 and Moto3, with both Championships full of changing momentum and battles that lit up the track from Qatar to Valencia.
In Moto2 it was Francesco Bagnaia vs Miguel Oliveira- and Kalex vs KTM - with some stunning races deciding the Championship,but it was far from a two-man battle.There were plenty of ......
Motocourse 2018-19covers both the MotoGP season and its 19 Grand Prix races in all three classes (MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3) in great detail with every race report backed by qualifying times, full race results and MotoGP lap charts. There are compelling features reflecting the key stories of the season, a team-by-team review which analyses the ......
Gary `Sox Hocking raced against the likes of Geoff Duke, Mike Hailwood and John Surtees, and eventually became double world champion - yet his name remains largely forgotten. He retired at an early stage in his career, and the explanation so often given for this ultimately proved far removed from the real reason. Roger Hughes fascinating book ......
If I had to lose my record to anyone, I couldnt be happier that it was Jonathan. Family connections aside, there is nobody more talented, more determined or more deserving. - Carl Fogarty
Within the staggeringly dangerous and high-pressure sport of professional motorcycling, Jonathan Reas achievements are unprecedented. A legendary ......
Featuring: New Zealand, the Final Leg
A shot at the South Aust 24 Hour Reliability Trials on a DR 650
A ride through the clouds of the Victorian High Country
The Simpson Desert on a WR 450
Hardcore Posties thru the Carnarvon Ranges
and some out of control Teletubbies
Join the Motorbikin team as they tackle a no holds barred 3000
kilometre run north from Brisbane to Darwin via Lawn Hill, Edith Falls and all the good stuff in between! We revisit our Orange Vtwin roots and check out BMWs Ultimate Enduro machine while the Dirty Old DR just keeps on thumping!
Theres plenty more to see as we ......
The Motorbikin Team returns to the Madigan Line, but this time, they are tackling the whole shebang covering 800 ks on unsupported cross country desert riding. Never before seen desert landscapes captured as the Motorbikin team set the history books as the first bikes to traverse the entire Madigan Line!
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Dhurville ......
We ride the Highest Roads in the World across the Himalayas
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we clock up some serious Ks riding to Adelaide and Back to race the SA 24 Hour Reliability Trials
We ride the 2 toughest tracks of West Australias remote Kimberly Region plus New Zealands High Altitude Awakino Saddle, and test the new SWM 650 plus tech tips and much more!
The Motorbikin Team Tackle some of the most remote Tracks of the Pilbara and Gibson Desert on a mission to ride back to the East Coast of Oz
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Stage 1 of our V Strom Build
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