THE TOLL charge for motorcycles crossing the Humber Bridge have been scrapped.In 2010 the officials in charge of the bridge applied to the Department for Transport asking for the motorcycle toll - then at £1.20 - to be scrapped as it wasn't worth their time collecting it.The new ...

DORNA, the organisers of MotoGP, have announced the provisional 2012 calendar.Click here for the official 2012 MotoGP schedule calendar datesThe calendar includes three dates which have yet to be confirmed, one of which is looking increasingly unlikely: the German MotoGP at Sachs...

AN enormous collection of MV Agustas brought together by brand fanatic Gary Kohs in Michigan is set to go under the hammer this summer. But you can't just buy one; all 71 machines are being sold as a single lot.Mecum Auctions will be selling the bikes, which range from the 1946 t...

THE BRITISH Motorcyclists Federation have expressed a cautious welcome to the announcement that pre-1960 vehicles will not longer have to pass an MOT.The fact that from the 18th of November,  thousands of classic cars and motorcycles that pre-date 1960 will no longer have to pass...

AMA rider and World Superbike wildcard, Shane 'Tornado' Turpin will be riding the 848 Challenge VIP bike this weekend at Cadwell Park.Turpin is an experienced AMA rider and raced as a wildcard at this year’s World Superbike event at Miller Motorsports Park on board a Boulder Moto...

FTR Moto has become a household name in biking since coming to prominence in the Moto2 series and now it's been bought up by the firm behind the planned £250 million MotoGP circuit in Ebbw Vale.The Heads of the Valleys Development Company plans to not only create a world-class ci...

OK, so SFM doesn’t register highly on the famous-bike-firms-ometer but there’s a good chance you have heard of Sachs; that’s the name the company used to trade under.So this isn’t just another Chinese company reworking old Japanese designs and selling them under multiple trade na...

FILIPPO Preziosi, the man at the heart of Ducati's MotoGP project has resigned.Preziosi is widely known as the brains behind the Desmosedici MotoGP bike which, ridden by Troy Bayliss and Loris Capirossi bagged a podium on its debut in 2003. However, Preziosi was under increasing ...

SUZUKI went public with their MotoGP contender at Catalunya today but the team won't be on the MotoGP grid until 2015.The bike has been revealed to be a 1,000cc inline-four, quashing rumours that it would be using a V4 engine.Suzuki's test rider, Nobuatsu Aoki is riding the bike ...

THE Powered Two Wheeler (PTW) market in Europe is 'in crisis' according to the Association des Constructeurs Européens de Motocycles (ACEM), the organisation that represents over 30 different motorcycle brands across Europe, as sales of PTWs are down by 3.2%.The crisis is not ove...