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King Kenny rides the M1
By Visordown News on 22/07/2011 10:13:49
Kenny Roberts samples the Yamaha YZR-M1 round Laguna Seca
KING Kenny Roberts lapped Laguna Seca on the Yamaha M1 yesterday to warm-up for his 'exhitibition' laps around at the US GP this weekend.The triple 500GP champion was also reunited with his 1980 championship-winnering YZR500. Speaking on Moto
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MotoGP: Kenny Roberts to run Moto2 team in 2010
By Visordown News on 08/07/2009 07:26:34
Former 500cc champ plans two-rider line-up using chassis designed in England
FORMER 500CC World Champion Kenny Roberts Snr. will be back in competitive racing in 2010; this time as the head of a new Moto2 team.Roberts is undoubtedly fired up over the new project, planning to recommission chassis building equipment, which
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Could Team KR make a MotoGP return?
By Visordown News on 27/07/2011 10:37:07
King Kenny contemplates the return of his team but only if they could get financial backing
be secured.Roberts move into team management began in 1984 when after retiring at the end of previous year, the three-time 500GP champion continued in the paddock as the boss of the factory Yamaha team. In 1996, Team KR was born through building his own Grand
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Banderas squad out of Moto2
By Visordown News on 01/12/2010 13:32:21
Kenny Noyes and Gabor Talmacsi left high and dry after team pulls plug
LATEST NEWS from the Moto2 paddock reports the Jack & Jones By Antonio Banderas team will not compete in the 2011 season.It's unclear exactly why the squad have decided to stand down for next season, but latest rumours from Eurosport commentator
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WSB: Kagayama making quick recovery
By Visordown News on 17/06/2009 10:20:56
Yukio aims to beat six-month lay-off prediction with intensive physiotherapy
round in Utah Yukio had planned to have a bit of a holiday, with good friend Noriyuki Haga, at the ranch home of GP legend Kenny Roberts. But he had to see Ting first and while he was there, he had a further CAT scan and his plaster cast on his leg
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Rossi to race Lawson, Rainey and Roberts
By Visordown News on 01/06/2009 14:32:55
GP legends to do battle at the Laguna Seca USGP
Champions, Kenny Roberts, Eddie Lawson and Wayne Rainey. They foursome have 17 World Championships to their name.It will be on four wheels, on 250cc go-karts, and could be quite fierce. Rossi is a past national go-kart champion and Lawson a leading light
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Two used Hondas: £496,388.80
By Visordown News on 11/02/2011 09:50:05
But they do have a bit of pedigree
the desirability of these historic motorcycles.They are Freddie Spencer’s title winning 1983 NS500-triple Honda and the legendary NSR250 from the now infamous 1985 season, the year Spencer clinched both the 250 and 500 World Championships – a feat never likely
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MotoGP: Team KR set to miss start of season
By Visordown News on 14/02/2008 12:21:43
Financial woes blunt Robert's MotoGP campaign
TEAM KR MotoGP racing team, owned by multiple world champion Kenny Roberts, looks set to miss the beginning of the 2008 MotoGP motorcycle racing world championship.The team, whose involvement in the 2008 series has been in doubt for several weeks
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'New' Silverstone honours Sheene
By Visordown News on 18/06/2010 11:16:49
Steve Parrish unveils tribute to 500cc legend
, by artist Andrew Kitson, shows the motorcycle racing legend on his 1976 Texaco Suzuki RG500 at Silverstone, tackling Woodcote bend. The picture will be the first painting in the club house to represent the importance of motorcycling to the track, its history
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Dainese announce TT Partnership
By Visordown News on 09/04/2008 16:57:15
Italian leather manufacturer named as official safety partner for this year's event
of race suits from some of their53 motorcycle racing world champions - leathers that have protected riders such asBarry Sheene, Kenny Roberts, Valentino Rossi and Troy Bayliss. It will be the firsttime that such a collection of leather suits has been
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