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Are you a Vulcan?

01 January 2005

What a strange way to give a salute….

No need to sulk....

01 January 2005

All we did was to ask what was under that jacket….

Amid much anticipation the Dakar finally hit Africa yesterday evening, but the excitement was short lived for the bikes as heavy fog prevented them from even starting the stage this morning. The fog...

White in the middle

01 January 2005

Feeling patriotic? That’s why we dressed these girls in red, white and blue. (Also works if you are French)

Hodgson second in tests

01 January 2005

Neil Hodgson finished the final session of the three day AMA Superbike test at Daytona second on the time sheets, with a time of 1:40.711. British former MotoGP rider and World Superbike champion...

Aussie wins Dakar stage

01 January 2005

Bad navigation cost Yamaha rider David Frétigné the lead in the Dakar today as Australian Andy Caldecott took the win on his KTM while Frétigné rode in to the wilderness. Frétigné was going well on...

Jordan bosses bike team

01 January 2005

American basketball legend and sometime film star Michael Jordan has announced he will run a team of Suzuki GSX-R1000s in the AMA Superbike championship. Keen biker Jordan owns a Ducati 998 and 999...

Best foot forward

01 January 2005

The new year is a time for new starts, so why not begin by putting your best foot forward?

Fretigne leads Dakar

01 January 2005

Yamaha rider David Fretigne is making all the early running in this year’s Dakar rally. He won the Barcelona super special stage on December 31 and claimed stage 3 special in Granada on Sunday...

Exclusive Rossi interview

01 January 2005

Valentino Rossi says Honda has a series of secret plans which could revolutionise motorcycling. The Yamaha riding world champion reveals how he heard about them when he raced for Honda – and why he...

Supercross legend Q+A

01 January 2005

After missing much of the 2004 AMA Supercross Series due to injury, legend Ricky Carmichael returns this year as the most successful rider ever. In eight years of professional racing Carmichael has...

Dakar heads South

01 January 2005

After the excitement of the opening day of the 2005 Paris-Dakar Rally, the competitiors face a long, but non-competitive trip from Barcelona to Granada in Spain. The day begins with a podium...

Got the hump?

01 January 2005

For some reason, we were strangely attracted to the camel’s humps…

Hodgson hot in Daytona

01 January 2005

A dramatic second day of the three-day AMA Superbike test at Daytona saw Neil Hodgson finish the session third quickest as pace-setter, Yoshimura Suzuki’s Mat Mladin, was knocked unconscious in a...