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The Yamaha Sterilgarda World Superbike Team today unveiled their new livery for the 2010 racing season. The team launched the new design on location at the Sterilgarda headquarters in Castiglione delle Stiviere to an audience of international journalists and sponsors.
Riders James Toseland and Cal Crutchlow revealed their 2010 YZF-R1 racebikes then took time to answer questions about their upcoming season. Both two-time World Superbike champion Toseland and reigning World Supersport champion Crutchlow have the potential to fight for the championship title this year.
New racing developments to the 2010 bike based upon the production crossplane crankshaft R1 include:
February 11th, 2010- Team Zyvax joins forces with Graves Motorsports to field the Yamaha YZFR1 in the heavyweight endurance class. This is a cooperative effort by both groups to field a second team. Building a strong endurance team with such potential has generated a lot of excitement. Running a heavyweight team in addition to the medium weight team will add depth to this program.
"Working with Graves Motorsports has been a great and helpful experience," says JB Layman, “Unlike sprint racing, endurance racing more heavily involves the crew in the overall outcome. It's... [Read More]
To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Graves Motorsports is supporting the sport like never before with a new contingency program for grass roots racers in the WERA National Endurance Series.
Graves is offering $5000 for first place at each of the eight WERA National Endurance events in the Mediumweight Superbike class. To assist racers and teams during the series, Graves will have parts and technical support staff on hand at each round.
“We race what we sell and we sell what we race, bridging the gap between the haves and the have nots” says company president Chuck Graves.... [Read More]
Van Nuys, California (January 8th, 2010) -Graves Motorsports / Team Graves Yamaha would like introduce Shane McCoy as our newest addition to the organization. Shane is no stranger to the motorcycle industry and he will be assuming a newly formed position within Graves. Shane McCoy will hit the ground running in an administrative position that covers the Media and Technologies areas. Expect this alliance to bring many fresh and exciting things from Graves Motorsports. All inquiries and information can be sent to Shane directly at ... [Read More]
Cypress, California, December 17th 2009 - In a year that saw Yamaha riders James Stewart, Valentino Rossi, and Ben Spies capture the perfect "trifecta" of World Championships, perhaps one of the most memorable moments for race fans around the world, was "King" Kenny Roberts' return ride at the infamous Indy Mile in late August.
As a year end surprise, Yamaha is pleased to offer race fans around the world a video of this monumental occasion. The video features both archival footage from Kenny’s victory in 1975 as well as the events surrounding this recent monumental motorcycling event.
To watch the entire video on YouTube, please click here:
Honda's CBR1000RR is one of two liter bikes from the Big Four to receive only minor updates for '10. Despite no big news, riding around on the C-ABS-equipped machine reinforced why we like the CBR so much in the first place.
We enjoyed Kawasaki's new Z1000 so much after our initial test we decided to see how it would fare against the endlessly appealing Triumph Speed Triple, a true icon of the naked sportbike genre and winner of our Motorcycle of the Year award.
Regardless of the fact that he has years of experience running a successful dealership, the popularity of the Harley-Davidson franchise never ceases to amaze Ron Kanerva.
It's good to be a cruiser these days, or more correctly, to be in the business of building cruisers. And as of late the bagger scene has taken off, too. Star takes advantage of this newfound cruiser growth with its Stratoliner Deluxe.
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