September 1, 2011
17 extraordinary images of the MV Agusta F4 Serie Oro
After the MV Agusta Brutale 675 spy shot turned up yesterday, we went browsing in the company’s media database to find out if, perhaps, it was one of those officially distributed “spy” shots that are all the rage right now. We couldn’t find any more images of that new bike, but our sleuthing did turn up an uncataloged photo cache on the original modern MV, the F4 Serie Oro. Here those imag...
01 September 2011
This is how you should be riding your sportsbike
A fairly uncommon dead-center, front-on photo of Casey Stoner in a low-speed corner at Indy gives us a chance to revisit current track riding practices. The form being demonstrated here is the ideal way to wring the most performance out of modern suspension, chassis and tires, removing as much lean as possible for a given corner speed while allowing the rider to continue to make control inputs and...
01 September 2011
This is what’s new on the 2012 Triumph Daytona 675
Already available in both black and red and lacking any mechanical updates for the new model year, what’s new on the 2012 Triumph Daytona 675 isn’t going to make it faster or lighter, but it is going to make it nicer to look at. Replacing the godawful comic sans belly pan graphics of previous years, the Daytona now adopts Triumph’s “sports script” font for all its badging. Wait, a motorc...
01 September 2011