— Archives for October 2006
After for the first time this year two Yamaha riders started from first two places Valentino Rossi was looking good in first place with Colin Edwards guarding his back from the HRC riders Dani Pedrosa and Nicky Hayden.
Some nasty accidents took place in the middle of the race Shinya Nakano felt off pretty nasty, Sete [...]
Shinya Nakano will leave from Kawasaki to replace Makoto Tamada at Konika Minolta. This was confirmed by the MotoGP Kawasaki Racing team manager Harald Eckl to motogp.com:
“Shinya has decided not to continue with Kawasaki next year, so we are looking at another rider to join our team (alongside Randy de Puniet)” also Eckl has [...]
Federico Minoli was written in his Desmoblog an very short but excellent thankful post for Troy Bayliss, Ducati Corse team and everybody involved in winning the Superbike World Championship:
Thanks Troy, thanks Ducati Corse, Davide, Ernesto, Paolo, the mechanics, the hospitality, the Ducati Clubs and all the fans.
An unforgettable day.
Here are the results for all 4 [...]
Federico Minoli – Ducati CEO wrote in his Desmoblog:
I am sorry to say that Mauro Lamandini, Ducati’s Engine Project Engineer, died an untimely death last Wednesday.
I did not know Mauro very well but coincidentally, in the last couple of days, I have been working on some texts he prepared for a new Ducati book. The [...]
Suzuki released a completely new Bandit for 2007. The new Suzuki Bandit 650 and 1250 seems to continue and promote same values:Balance and Quality.
Some of the new features announced for new Bandit:
new liquid cooled engine
ABS Antilock Braking System (optional) monitors the wheel speed and matches braking power to available traction
Suzuki Dual Throttle Valve fuel [...]
On Motegi Honda Racing HRC tested their new 800cc motorcycle for MotoGP 2007 season. Currently RC211V Honda uses a V5 engine with 990cc capacity but for next year it will match the competition moving to 4 cylinders. Ducati and Suzuki already use a V4 and Yamaha and Kawasaki are using an inline-4 cylinders.
MotoGP rules are [...]
AMERICA
Changes for 2007:
Increased engine capacity from 790cc to 865cc
Reverse cone exhaust pipes
New cast wheels
Adjustable clutch and front brake levers
Black engine with chromed covers
Restyled chain cover, passenger footrest hanger and upper fork shrouds
Revised, more comfortable passenger seat
Four new paint schemes – Phantom Black; Phantom Black/Sunset Red; Phantom Black/Tornado Red; Pacific Blue/New England White
BONNEVILLE
Changes for 2007:
Increased engine [...]
Judging after the photos and based on what suzuki is telling us we can notice many things.Most important feature is the three different settings of engine management system with own engine map which can be selected instantly from a switch mounted on handlerbar. This feature will let the rider to choose from 3 different [...]
