Category: "Honda"

MotoGP 2011 title goes to Casey Stoner down under

It’s nice to see the Australians win something without having to pay for it (ahem Bryce Lawrance) Yes you may have noticed I am a South African rugby supporter. So before I let you read the press release on Casey Stoner’s victory, I would just like to mention that Bryce Lawrance is a hopeless, useless, [...]

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2012 Honda CBR Fireblade

It’s here, one of my most favorite bikes, the fireblade is back. Everything to all people, the 2012 fireblade looks awesome. These pictures were leaked and as a result no information has been released by the manufacturer, but sources say ABS will be an option, the engine is the same configuration, so no V4 or big bang motor. You [...]

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MotoGP: Stoner rules Silverstone

It was a Repsol Honda 1 – 2 on the podium, with Casey Stoner taking his 27th victory and the Championship lead in the AirAsia British Grand Prix MotoGP race on Sunday. Team mate Andrea Dovizioso finished second, with Colin Edwards (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) riding a brilliant race with a broken collarbone to land [...]

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Stoner roars to second victory of the season at Le Mans

Repsol Honda’s Casey Stoner secured victory for the first time in his career at the Le Mans circuit in Sunday’s Monster Energy Grand Prix de France. It was a close battle until the very end between two Italians for second place but it was the second Repsol Honda of Andrea Dovizioso who clinched the 20 [...]

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MotoGP: Pedrosa powers to first victory of the season in Estoril

After a race long-duel with fellow Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha Factory Racing), Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) raced to victory at the bwin Grande Prémio de Portugal on Sunday and with it claimed his first win at the Estoril circuit in any class. Third was Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda). Pedrosa, who only recently had surgery on [...]

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Simoncelli starts Estoril weekend with top time

San Carlo Honda Gresini rider Marco Simoncelli was quickest in both practice sessions at the bwin Grande Prémio de Portugal on Friday, as the World Championship resumed action. The Italian lost the front end of his Honda going into Turn 3 midway through the second session so had to jump onto his second machine, but [...]

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Texas lands MotoGP from 2013

Dorna Sports, S.L., 3FourTexasMGP, LLC and Full Throttle Productions, LP are pleased to announce the historic signing of a 10 year contract bringing MotoGP to the new Circuit of the Americas™ facility in Austin, Texas, from 2013. This agreement includes the three categories of the World Championship; the MotoGP class -the pinnacle of motorcycling-, Moto2 [...]

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MotoGP: Honda and Stoner victorious

Casey Stoner had a titanic tussle with his Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa at the Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar in the first round of the 2011 MotoGP World Championship to take all 25 points on his debut ride with the factory team. Stoner eventually finished 3.440s ahead of defending World Champion Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha [...]

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MotoGP announcement: Japanese race postponed

Due to reasons of force majeure, the Japanese Grand Prix, at the circuit of Twin Ring Motegi, originally scheduled on April 24, has been postponed to 2 October 2011. Here is the race calendar: March 20 Qatar* Doha/Losail April 3 Spain Jerez de la Frontera May 1 Portugal Estoril May 15 France Le Mans June [...]

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MotoGP Official Test at Sepang – Tuesday 1 February

Casey Stoner’s progress on the Repsol Honda RC212V continued at a rapid rate on Tuesday when the Australian rider topped the opening day timesheet at the official MotoGP Test at Sepang. Posting a best lap of 2’01.574 – the only sub-2’02” effort – at the very end of the day Stoner was 0.403s faster than [...]

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Shoya Tomizawa passes away after tragic Moto2 accident

Tomizawa, the successful Moto2 rider has tragically passed away at 14:20 at the San Marino grand Prix in Italy today. As he excited the corner at full speed his bike ran wide and he went onto the Astroturf . As he lost control and came off,  he was struck by two other riders, Alex De Angelis and Scott Redding. [...]

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Isle of Man TT

If you enjoy biking chances are that you are familiar with the Isle of Man TT held every year at the end of May. During this time, the Isle of Man transforms its’ public roads into a race track, the oldest motorcycle race track in the world at that. Riders and tourists from all over [...]

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Honda CBX 250 Twister

The Honda CBX 250 Twister is branded as a commuter bike, but I think it can be much more than that if you let it take you in to it’s unique and special character. However, you’ll find that somewhat hard to do if you’re used to more powerful bikes because at the end of the [...]

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Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade

Mention the word Honda to anyone today and they will immediately know exactly what you are talking about. Today Honda is recognized as one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world and the biggest motorcycle manufacturer in the world. However Honda came from humble beginnings and is truly an inspirational story to anyone.

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MZ RT125 Striker

Although not many people know of the motorcycle manufacturer Mz, they have in fact been around since the early 19th century. Mz is based in East Germany and their first Rt 125 was the most copied bike in history. Manufacturers from around the globe designed their bikes based on Mz’s Rt 125. Today they have [...]

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