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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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'King' Kenny Roberts to ride at Mallory
By Visordown News on 13/01/2011 10:52:26
His first time on a UK racetrack infront of the public since 1983
TRIPLE 500GP World Champ King Kenny Roberts will be riding a works Yamaha OW60 in the Vintage Motorcycle Club's 'Past Masters' track event.The event, which takes place at Mallory Park on Sunday 10th July, will see Roberts join Agostini, Read
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King Kenny's ranch goes up for sale
By Visordown News on 22/09/2010 10:54:40
Dirttrack oval, MX track, air-conditioned museum, workshop facilities: is this a motorcyclist's dream home?
FORMER TRIPLE 500cc World Champion Kenny Roberts has put his famous ranch up for sale, complete with dirttrack oval, Motocross track and air-conditioned motorcycle museum (bikes not included).The ranch, in Modesto, California, has been used as a
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King Kenny R1 raises £50k+ for charity
By Visordown News on 24/08/2011 11:08:52
Red and white R1 ridden in Laguna Seca demo laps auctioned by Kenny Roberts and Jay Leno
with TV personality Jay Leno, the proceeds for the auction go directly to Bailey's Cafe, a school of the arts that brings youths and elders together in the Bronx.King Kenny was flattered by the bidding, commenting: "I'm kinda surprised that someone would
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Kenny Roberts - MotoGP Diary 2002-2003
By Kenny Roberts on 26/06/2002 09:53:57
In his column run from the mag, GP team owner and bona-fide living legend, King Kenny gave his opinions from a unique point of GP experience from running a two-stroke during the start of the MotoGP era and the hardship of developing the KR four-stroke
June 2002 The first race of the revised MotoGP class at Suzuka did actually feel like a new era. It was a bigger deal. The thing that we have adopted now - after what I'd said years ago - is that we need to bring more engineering into the motorcycle business, and the new rules...
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"They don't pay me enough to ride that thing"
By Visordown News on 04/09/2009 13:32:10
King Kenny said it in the 1970s and he's still not changed his mind
KING KENNY Roberts thrilled modern MotoGP riders including Hayden and Rossi with some amazingly spirited demonstration laps of his fearsome 700 two-stroke dirt-tracker at Saturday night’s Indianapolis Mile oval-track.“I said then: They don’t pay me
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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
MAKING an appearance in the paddock for Yamaha’s 50th anniversary celebrations may have given Kenny Roberts a taster of what he is missing, as the 'King' would consider a return to MotoGP team ownership if a sufficient financial backing could
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MotoGP: Team Roberts out for 2008
By Mike Scott on 31/03/2008 12:48:04
King Kenny's MotoGP team unlikely to make an appearance this year but are planning 2009 comeback
TEAM ROBERTS is still absent, but hasn’t gone away, according to team manager Chuck Aksland. Plans are still in place for a probable return to the MotoGP class next year.The long-time ally of Kenny Roberts was at Jerez in his new role of rider
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Kenny Roberts
By Visordown on 27/04/2002 14:39:32
King Kenny Roberts in his own words. During a flying visit to his race factory in Banbury, TWO caught up with Kenny Roberts Snr to find out how he has remained one of the most famous and respected personalities in GP racing.
If there is another person in the world with a wider-reaching influence on motorcycle racing, with greater durability, or more immaculate racing credentials that Kenny Roberts, I'd like to meet him.I met King Kenny for this interview and only
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1983 San Marino GP - Down to the Wire
By Michael Scott on 07/10/2010 10:08:42
The San Marino Grand Prix, 4 September 1983
After deposing Barry Sheene for three straight championships, Kenny Roberts stopped winning the 500GP title after 1980. He remained King Kenny nonetheless. In racing terms, his status equalled that of Valentino Rossi.In 1982, injury at the British
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