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BSA Motorbike Engine
Original photo by Leo L30.

KTM 950 Adventure Review

One Wheel Drive

Moto Guzzi NATO

Moto Guzzi NATO
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Byrne close to KR-KTM deal.

"To be honest I don't know much about (Byrne) as a rider," confessed Harald Bartol, the KTM motorsports manager. "We were expecting to take Jeremy McWilliams, which I was very happy with for development purposes, but that situation changed for reasons out of our control. Now we're looking forward to getting to know Shane." Crash.net

Radical SR8

This post is only tangentially about motorcycles. There is a new trend afoot in the world of high-performance track day cars. Low volume manufacturers like Radical are using motorcycle powerplants as the basis for purpose-built race engines, for cars. "Radical's engine specialist, Powertec, has grafted a pair of Suzuki Hayabusa top ends on to a common crankcase to make a 2.6-litre V8. Without any mods to the Suzuki pistons, rods, cams valvegear or heads, it puts out 383bhp at about 10,000rpm." Auto Express

The fundamentals...

Crash.net published a short and straightforward article about the key equation in motorsport engineering. F = m x a Crash.net

Byrne on verge of KR-KTM deal.

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But will it be orange?

Kenny Roberts' fast Frankenstein of a racing motorcycle is still unconfirmed for the 2005 MotoGP season. The newest rumors place Shakey Byrne on the hybrid KR/KTM with Michelin rubber. Toby Hirst reports the details at Superbike Planet