can get into the motor because of tears at the butterfly valve sensor. The problem can lead to the bike cutting out or stuttering at low revs. If you own a bike affected contact your nearest Yamaha dealer for the problem to be rectified.

count, to run concurrently, and fined £348 after pleading guilty to three counts of speeding and one count of careless driving.Magistrate Dr Marian Read said: 'What is particularly stupid about this is that your job brings you into contact

HistoryRacing on dirty oval tracks can be traced back to the start of the 20th century and it’s said that a race in South Africa in 1907 was the start of it all, for bikes at least. But the first recorded motorcycle speedway (or dirt track) event, where prize money was on offer, ...

How big is Aprilia in the UK RIGHT NOW?Market share-wise we are just 3.2% of the market. We have been considerably bigger, but we’ve been through some troubled times in the last few years. So far we are up 20% up on 2007, so we’re getting closer to Triumph and BMW. In terms of ov...

SUZUKI and Focused Events have announced the return of GSX-R Track Days for 2011.Following the GSX-R's 25th anniversary in 2010, where Suzuki hosted three track days, Suzuki and Focused Events will continue the format in 2011, offering riders the chance to ride at three events in...

Let's get this straight. The Thundersprint is not your conventional road race.In fact, it's not really a road race at all, more of a sprint along a 440m course in a car park, surrounded by hay bales from a local farm. Oh, and marked out with traffic cones borrowed for the day fro...

involved 2009-2012 ZX-6Rs and 2008-2011 ZX-10Rs, all manufactured between December 2007 and July 2011.As usual with recalls, there really isn't much to worry about – Kawasaki will be contacting registered owners of affected bikes via letter to get them

Club racing is the bare bones of motorcycle sport giving the chance for weekend warriors to join budding upstarts in a slipstreaming, out-braking duel around top-class circuits before a return to the 9-5, Monday to Friday routine.Before going racing there is a list of items you n...

Preconception: I hope the Haslams like my tribute sideys What I learned: Sideys don't mean squat when you've just crashed in front of two generations of racing leg-endWhen I was 11, I could strip and re-assemble an AK47 in under a minute. Blindfolded. At 13 I could map-read like ...

EXCUSE US, BUT how did you end up owning the largest motorsport empire in the UK?I had the Palmersport business, doing corporate events at Bedford Autodrome, and was eager to expand the business but didn’t know how. Then in the middle of ’03, the Octagon circuits (Brands, Oulton ...