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Linsdell to race FTR Moto2 bike in Senior TT

25 February 2010 by MCN Sports Desk

Linsdell to race FTR Moto2 bike in Senior TT

Olie Linsdell and Buckingham-based FTR Moto have joined forces to race in this year’s Senior TT. The Senior TT regulations, though dominated by superbike and superstock 1000cc machinery, have a clause...

Easton to race NW200 on Swan Honda

24 February 2010 by MCN Sports Desk

Easton to race NW200 on Swan Honda

Stuart Easton returns to the North West 200 following a three-year absence and will ride his BSB Honda plus a specially-prepared superstock bike for the Swan Honda team on the Irish road...

Reeves' 2010 TT appearance in doubt

24 February 2010 by Phil Wain

Reeves' 2010 TT appearance in doubt

Sidecar ace Tim Reeves is facing an uncertain Isle of Man TT future after one of his main sponsors withdrew their support for the 2010 road racing season. The triple World Sidecar champion, who...

MotoCzysz line up for 2010 TT Zero

22 February 2010 by MCN Sports Desk

MotoCzysz line up for 2010 TT Zero

MotoCzysz, the motorcycle team founded by designer Michael Czysz, has confirmed that they would be returning to the Isle of Man in 2010 to participate in the ‘TT Zero’ Clean Emissions race, which is...

Guy Martin and Wilson Craig team up with Leo Vince

17 February 2010 by MCN Sports desk

Guy Martin and Wilson Craig team up with Leo Vince

Guy Martin and his Wilson Craig Honda team have linked up with Italian exhaust manufacturer Leo Vince. The company worked with the Wilson Craig team during 2008 and 2009 when Scotsman Keith Amor...

No Tandragree 2010

30 January 2010 by suzukimad

The Tandragee 100 Road Races will not take place this year. A club statement said that the decision had been taken “due to the current economic climate and circumstances beyond our control”. The statement added that the organisers, the North Armagh Club, intended to run the race again in 2011. The Tandragee event, which had been scheduled to take place on Saturday 1 May, celebrated its 50th...

Farquhar’s bikes get Magic Bullets

22 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

Farquhar’s bikes get Magic Bullets

TT winner and multiple Irish Champion Ryan Farquhar will be backed by fuel Magic Bullet this season. Magic Bullet is an advanced fuel treatment, formulated for high revving performance motorcycles,...

Cummins on his 2010 Kawasaki rides

22 January 2010 by MCN Sportsdesk

Cummins on his 2010 Kawasaki rides

McAdoo Kawasaki Racing’s Conor Cummins is ready and raring to go in 2010 having re-signed for the Cookstown-based official Kawasaki UK road racing team. Cummins has put pen to paper on a new deal to...

Relentless back North West 200

12 January 2010 by Stephen Davison

Relentless back North West 200

Relentless Energy Drink was named today as the title sponsor of the 2010 International North West 200 road race, which takes place on Saturday, May 15 on the famed 8.9-mile course that links to the...

Carl Rennie gets Phase One roads ride

08 January 2010 by Gary Pinchin

Carl Rennie will lead the Phase One Endurance Yamaha challenge for the honours at the TT and NW200 this year. Rennie, who finished fifth in last year’s Senior, will compete in all the solo classes on Phase One Bikes. Rennie said: “I am delighted to have been offered this opportunity by Russell and the Phase One Yamaha Team to join them for the 2010 season. “I feel with the experience, knowledge...

TTXGP World Final at Albacete

16 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

TTXGP World Final at Albacete

The grand final of the TTXGP 2010 series, in partnership with the European Motorcycle Union (UEM), will be held in October at Albacete, Spain. Azhar Hussain organised the first “real” race of electric...

TTXGP motorcycles to demo at Paris eGrand Prix

16 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

TTXGP motorcycles to demo at Paris eGrand Prix

TTXGP electric motorcycles will feature in a demo lap at the inaugural zero carbon, celan emission car race on a 2.5 mile street circuit in the city centre of Levallois, Paris in June 2010. M. Patrick...

TTXGP announce final UK series schedule

16 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

TTXGP announce final UK series schedule

The fourth and final event in the TTXGP UK Championship 2010 will be held at Brands Hatch, 2-3 October. The 2010 TTXGP UK Championship is sanctioned by the Auto Cycle Union (ACU) and supported by the...

Mavizen launch world’s first production electric supersport bike

16 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Mavizen launch world’s first production electric supersport bike

On the very day Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown was taking delivery of the ministerial fleet’s first all-electric car, British motorcycle manufacturer Mavizen unveiled their TTX02 at Bloomberg,...

North West race date confirmed

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

North West race date confirmed

The 2010 North West 200 race day will take place on Saturday, May 15. During the past few months NW200 Race Director Mervyn Whyte has been consulting with BSB organisers MSVR, to ensure that North...

Eco Enduro line-up

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Eco Enduro line-up

The World First environmental friendly Enduro race for electrical competition motorbikes takes place in Denmark on December 11-13. The races, which start at the Feddet area south of Faxe in Denmark...

North West 200 ditches 250s

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

North West 200 ditches 250s

The Coleraine & District Motor Club Ltd will next year  promote a six-race North West 200 programme following a decision to remove the 250cc race category. The revised programme will comprise two ...

Maria Costello gets her mojo working

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

Maria Costello gets her mojo working

Female bike racer Maria Costello says she cannot wait for the start of the 2010 season after recovering her racing ‘mojo’. Costello, the first woman to achieve a podium finish at the Isle of Man, says...

Billown loses TT races

11 December 2009 by MCN Sports Desk

The Southern 100 Club have publicly expressed their feelings that the Department of Tourism and Leisure will no longer fund the 125 and 250 TT races that have been run on the Billown course for the past two years. A tersely-worded press statement from the club said: “We are very disappointed that the Department of Tourism and Leisure have decided that they would not fund the 125cc and 250cc...

Irish Roadrace Calendar 2010

09 December 2009 by suzukimad

For the eighth year in a row top road racing photographer Stephen Davison has produced his Road Racers calendar for 2010. Following the popular format of the previous years there are 12 A3 sized pictures, all of which can be kept and framed after use. The full colour calendar includes stunning images of top racers Cameron Donald, Michael Dunlop, Conor Cummins, Michael Rutter, Keith Amor, William...

Tailor-made TT travel packages

04 December 2009 by MCN sports desk

Tailor-made TT travel packages

Isle of Man-based travel company Regency Travel has been appointed as the official Travel Agency of the TT Races following a tender process.  The company will market a wide range of packages,...

TT schedule announced

04 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

TT schedule announced

TT Mountain Course race schedule reverts to core programme. Billown Lightweight and Ultra Lightweight TT Races no longer part of schedule. Classic parade laps return on Senior Race Day. Those are the...

TT Day of Champions

04 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

TT Day of Champions

Next year’s TT entertainment programme kicks off on Thursday, June 3 with the TT ‘Day of Champions’. Former motorcycling champions and TT legends will be interviewed on the main stage at the TT...

More to come from McAdoo Kawasaki

04 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

More to come from McAdoo Kawasaki

Jason McAdoo has admitted that development of the team’s Kawasaki ZX-10R superbike that Conor Cummins broke the Ulster lap record with was held up until the rider had agreed terms for 2010. “We...

Farquhar joins forces with MSS Colchester Kawasaki for 2010

01 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Farquhar joins forces with MSS Colchester Kawasaki for 2010

Dungannon’s Ryan Farquhar will again spearhead Kawasaki’s assault on the International and National road races in 2010, with the 33-year old joining forces with MSS Colchester Kawasaki for his...

Conor Cummins stays with McAdoo

01 December 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Conor Cummins stays with McAdoo

Conor Cummins stays with McAdoo Kawasaki for the big three international superbike road races next year. Cummins said: “The McAdoo Kawasaki ZX-10R is tried and tested. We know where we are with it...

The roads – who goes where

25 November 2009 by Gary Pinchin

The roads – who goes where

There are still a lot of unanswered questions about who goes where on the roads next year. Here’s the latest list of confirmed entries – plus those still looking for rides and teams looking for...

Guy Martin signs for Wilson Craig’s Honda team

25 November 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Guy Martin signs for Wilson Craig’s Honda team

Guy Martin has agreed terms to race for Honda on the roads next year for Irish businessman, Wilson Craig. The deal allows Martin to virtually run his own team – something he’s always argued works best...

Stuart Easton takes stunning Macau GP win

23 November 2009 by Phil Wain

Stuart Easton takes stunning Macau GP win

Stuart Easton won his second successive Macau GP today when he defeated Conor Cummins in a dramatic final lap shoot-out around the 3.8-mile Guia circuit. The Hydrex/IGT Honda rider appeared to have...

Cummins quickest in Q2 but Easton stays on pole

20 November 2009 by Phil Wain

Cummins quickest in Q2 but Easton stays on pole

Conor Cummins set the fastest time in second and final qualifying for tomorrow’s Macau Grand Prix but Stuart Easton’s stunning lap from Thursday remained good enough for him to retain pole...

Simon Andrews in at the deep end at Macau

19 November 2009 by Phil Wain

Simon Andrews in at the deep end at Macau

British Superbike star Simon Andrews admitted that his first taste of real road racing at today’s Macau GP practice had been a somewhat daunting experience. “F*** me, this place is scary,” were the...

Stuart Easton sets blistering pace at Macau Grand Prix

19 November 2009 by Phil Wain

Stuart Easton sets blistering pace at Macau Grand Prix

Stuart Easton set the fastest ever lap of the 3.8-mile Macau circuit on Thursday afternoon to set provisional pole position for Saturday’s 15-lap Macau Grand Prix. The Hydrex IGT Honda ace set a time...

TT and Silverstone will continue to work together

11 November 2009 by Gary Pinchin

TT and Silverstone will continue to work together

TT boss Paul Phillips says that he hopes to continue to work closely with the Silverstone management – even though the date clash between the 2010 TT and the Northants MotoGP race has now been...

NW200 course improvement

11 November 2009 by Gary Pinchin

NW200 course improvement

Twelve times North West 200 race winner Michael Rutter has welcomed major improvements carried out by the Department of Regional Development (DRD) Roads Service at Mathers Cross on the 8.9mile...

Wanneroo success story

10 November 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Last weekend saw the second running of the Kings of Wanneroo event in Australia and with stars of World and British Superbikes in attendance, the hard-working Western Australia motorcycle club had certainly assembled a grid packed with racing talent. From start to finish the UK riders were treated like ‘Kings’ and whilst the meeting certainly has the classic end of year feel to it, where there’s...

Rutter aims for seventh Macau GP win

10 November 2009 by Gary Pinchin

Rutter aims for seventh Macau GP win

Michael Rutter is gunning for a record seventh victory at Macau next month, riding in the colours of Team of Paris AXA Racing on an MSS Kawasaki ZX-10, alongside MSS’ regular BSB star Simon...