JOAN MIR’S FUTURE remains up in the air as Honda’s desperate struggles continue apace. The 2020 world champion is assessing an offer from HRC to stay beyond 2024 but has also been heavily linked with the seat at Trackhouse Aprilia, where former Team

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THE 2024 Australian Senior Track Championship was held at the Mick Doohan Raceway over 4-5 May. Big fields for the MX Open and Pro 450 classes meant four rounds of heats before the repechage and final. Jarred Brook was the unbeaten top qualifier in b

AT MILAN’S EICMA show last November, CFMoto revealed the MT-X concept and now the production version has been type-approved, revealing not only how the showroom model will look but giving away key technical details. Importantly, apart from the additi

ROOTHY NEEDS to go for another ride to sharpen his blunt brain, I reckon. It’s true when he says I have a plush fourby, but if he’d racked his brain he probably could have dobbed me in for worse. And it’s true that I use a camera for work but he forg

MOTOGP SERIES ORGANISER Dorna is pushing to freeze engine development for 2026 in a bid to reduce costs. Its reasoning is the five MotoGP factories will be developing new prototype machines for 2027, so reducing spending on engine development the yea

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THIS SHOWCASED the best – and worst – of Moto2. For Sergio Garcia (MSI Boscoscuro) took advantage of some early chaos to establish an advantage. From there, the Spaniard eked out a comfortable lead over Joe Roberts (ART Kalex), Alonso Lopez (Speed Up

DAVID ALONSO (Aspar CFMoto) bounced back from his Jerez disappointment by scoring a brilliant last-lap victory over chief rival Dani Holgado (Tech3 GASGAS). The pair were embroiled in a fine 10-rider scrap, with Collin Veijer (IntactGP Husqvarna) jus

YOU COULD argue that Yamaha’s Sport Heritage line-up started back in 2015, with the retro XJR1300 and SR400, but it wasn’t until 2016, for me anyway, that the company came up with truly convincing heritage offerings in the XSR700 and XSR900, both wit

CHRIS WARWICK added another set of iconic buffalo horns to his collection on 5 May when he took out the Kamfari wet season enduro on the Cox Peninsula, with 36 riders taking part. With the water table dropping early in the start of the dry season, th

It only takes a quick look at Italjet’s 65-year history to understand why someone believed they needed to take designs and componentry usually reserved for high-end exotica and apply it to an outrageously styled 181cc scooter. That someone is Massimo

IT’S NOT EASY to get a detailed breakdown of every make and model of bike that’s sold each year in many countries but we can get an insight into the sort of electric motorcycles that are finding buyers by looking at new models registered in the UK. I

MOTORCYCLE RACING for me has been a whirlwind. I was a professional cricketer in my early 20s, a bit of an all-rounder, reaching the heights of playing County cricket in the UK. I wasn’t too bad at football either, so I’d play footy in the winter and

GLENN IRWIN (PBM Ducati) has taken three Superbike wins at the North West 200, making him the most successful Superbike rider in the event’s history. Irwin now has 11 wins at the 14.4km road circuit, surpassing the previous record held by the legenda