SuperGP
Mathew Scholtz showed what fans can expect for the remainder of the 2015 DEOD SuperGP Champions Trophy season when he powered his EmTek Racing Nashua Yamaha R1 to two convincing wins at the Mpumalanga SuperGP at Red Star Raceway on Sunday, 14 June. The king of SuperPole Clint Seller (NeoLife Africa Yamaha R1) did the job yet again – he has only been beaten in once SuperPole – leading a Yamaha lockout of the front row of the grid....
Superbike V4 Engines – by Gavin Foster
V-4 engines are superb in motorcycles, so why aren’t more people making them? Well, Honda is, and after years of practice they’ve virtually claimed the breed as their own. Everybody loves a motorcycle with a V4 engine. It offers the power of a four-cylinder engine in a package not much wider than a twin, and it sounds gorgeous. With a 900 V-angle there’s near-perfect primary balance, reducing vibration, and, face it, a V4 is just more...
Who is Garry Rothwell?
He is the founder of the UK stunt riding scene, taking his talents from the streets of Liverpool and sharing them with the rest of the world. I was a bit of a daft lad when I was a kid. Always trying to jump my skateboard or my BMX higher and further than everyone else. My dad knew that I’d be silly on a bike, so he held off for as long as he could when I started asking for one. He didn’t work in the bike industry he ran a shop and...
Indian Scout – by Gareth Davidson
Indian Motorcycles is one of the oldest names in existence and pretty much everyone will know or have heard of it before. A quick and interesting fact is that in 1911 the Indian factory took the first three places at the Isle of Man TT races. The brand Indian Motorcycles was originally produced from 1901 to 1953 in Springfield, Massachusetts, US. During the 1910s, Indian became the largest manufacturer of motorcycles in the world. One...
BMW S 1000 RR vs. Yamaha R1 – by Clinton Pienaar
Who is king of the castle in the power wars? BMW has had it all their own way for some time now, they entered the arena in a fairly unassuming way a few years ago and immediately leaped to the front of the all out power pack, leaving the Japanese manufacturers almost dumbstruck. Well almost all of them as it was only really Kawasaki who came to the fore to challenge from a Japanese perspective. Ducati and Aprilia upped their offering...