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Live from the Ducati Hypermotard 1100 EVO launch

The UK contingent have touched down in Sardinia, wired on espresso and bloated from airport pizza

I'm out in Sardinia for the launch of Ducati's Hypermotard 1100 EVO. I can't wait.

I'm knackered from the transfers, been up since 5am and haven't helped myself by necking an espresso at every opportunity. Now it's come-down time!

So Ducati have updated the Hypermotard 1100, and in the meantime they've launched a ...  Continue reading

I'm on a Goodwood Revival comedown

I'd been to the Festival of Speed but hadn't quite prepared myself for the Revival spectacle

I'm on a massive comedown after a great weekend at Goodwood Revival. The Revival relives the glory days of the 50s and 60s and that's not just marketing hype, almost everyone is dressed in perios clothing, the cars are all from 1948 to 1966 and the effort that goes into setting ...  Continue reading

Cycling with headphones? You deserve to die

If you don't look after yourself on the road, don't expect others to either

You may have made your mind up about this piece already, seeing as I'm the Ed of a motorcycling website, you'd expect my views to be totally biased towards motorcyclists and against everyone else. We minorities always stick together, right? Wrong.

I love cycling, I respect people who want to get into ...  Continue reading

SHARP ratings: who cares? These guys don't

Do you need the latest race-rep £500 lid? Not if you're from Trinidad

Who needs SHARP ratings when you've got a bucket and a builder's hard hat? Not these guys, clearly. It's good to know they've got what looks like a proper lid protecting the bike's clocks - you don't want to damage those..

I wonder how long you could ride around the streets here ...  Continue reading

Tags: helmet, sharp, scooter

Visordown mag, issue 2 just landed

Hot off the press and here's what's inside the second issue

The latest issue of Visordown mag just arrvied in the office, fresh from the printers. And it's looking great!

This month we've got the new KTM 990SMT up against Suzuki's Kayabusa, Honda's VFR800 and BMW's K1300GT - which one is the daddy for sports touring? We tackle the annual Pikes Peak hillclimb ...  Continue reading

Win tickets to Red Bull X-Fighters at Vue

We've teamed up with Vue and are giving away 10 pairs of tickets to watch X-Fighters live

The Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour Finale is a display of twelve of the world’s best Freestyle Motocross (FMX) riders who will wow a 17,000 strong audience on 22nd August at Battersea Power Station, London, as they give a white knuckle performance and battle it out for the world title. 

But you ...  Continue reading

"You f'ed up the best f'ing race of the year"

AMA technical director caught on video chastising AMA privateer Johnny Page

I don't know where to start with this. But it's clear that AMA is in a complete state at the moment, what with Mat Mladin retiring and I feel sorry for AMA race fans most of all.

So check out this video of a confrontation between privateer Johnny Page and ...  Continue reading

The world's fastest fire engine

New Nurburgring Rapid Response Vehicle will be helping to mop up the post-spill carnage that's part and parcel of a day at the' Ring

With a lap-record time of 7m26s, Nissan's R35 Skyline has been causing quite a stir and many a pant-wetting moment in the car world. Now the operators of the Nordschleife have introduced an R35 Skyline as their Rapid Response Vehicle.

This stripped out, R35 features bucket-seats, a rollcage and a massive fire-extinguisher ...  Continue reading

Texting while driving. Funny cartoon

We've all been victim to the idiots who text while driving - you've just got to hope this cartoon contains an ounce of truth

I know I've seen my share of idiots dawdling along the motorway, veering left to right like a wonky bowling ball on its path to destruction. Best to steer well clear of them, while they try and bash out 140 characters without killing anyone in the process.

Let's just hope the Grim ...  Continue reading

Just givin' that truck a push

The best picture to land in my inbox this week

I don't think I need to say much about this pic. It was sent to me by a Visordown reader and I don't know whether I should be impressed, baffled, or just hold my head in my hands and start to sob.

Right now, I think however cool that might look, the ...  Continue reading

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