After battling the elements, three crashes and pins and needles in his recovering broken wrist, Michael Rutter still managed to salvage a good top-10 result from today's wet Oulton Park races. Despite a crash in the first race, the rider from Kirkby Mallory managed to hang on for...

with family, and spreading out through friends, colleagues and acquaintances.So as well as normal police duties, North Yorkshire Police officers will - Operate extra road safety patrols. Marked and plain cars and motorcycles will check the county's roads

Yamaha 450 ... 60bhp, 115kgThe original concept drawingRoland Sands ... former AMA GP250 champ rides the 450COULD this be a new direction for bike racing in the UK? Gavin Trippe, a racing promoter in the 1970s hopes so.Four concept bikes have been built in the USA, based on 450cc...

BRITAIN's largest motorcycling group, the British Motorcyclists Federation, have withdrawn their support from the road safety lobby group RoadPeace. The move follows the publication of a letter sent by RoadPeace to the House of Commons Transport

EVEL KNIEVEL, the motorcycle stunt superhero, passed away today at his home in the USA, aged 69.The motorcycling phenomenon had been suffering from a degenerating lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, for the past few years, finally succumbing

A FAMILY has been given a pre-Christmas boost with the return of their son's stolen bike, says a story in the Bath Chronicle.Teresa Greenslade contacted The Bath Chronicle last week because she was desperate to find her son's £3,000 motocross bike.Her persistence in tracing the b...

to reduce motorcycle collisions and rider casualties. It gives motorcycle manufacturers and dealers a chance to display their bikes and products and allows members of the public to try out various bikes whilst also interacting with the police on assessed

, escaped without a serious injury, although she took a blow to the head and suffered minor chest and leg injuries. But she was able to walk away from the scene of disaster to be treated by paramedics and after nine hours in Wansbeck General Hospital she

A MAN who killed his pillion passenger after his motorbike collided with a lamppost has been jailed, says the Northampton Chronicle.Mihai Avramescu, 29, was riding his Yamaha off-road bike in Ladybridge Drive, West Hunsbury, when he lost control while overtaking a car, on April 2...

the fourth quarter the Company repurchased $153.3 million of its common stock.Revenue for the full year 2007 was $5.73 billion compared to $5.80 billion in 2006, a 1.3 percent decline. For the full year, wholesale shipments of Harley-Davidson(R) motorcycles