GasGas, legendary in off-road circles, to go road racing for the first time. With new ownership from KTM, however, the Moto3 effort will essentially be a red version of Team Orange. This isn’t too dissimilar to the Husqvarna Moto3 entry, which is also a KTM-owned entity.

The transaction allows Brembo to integrate brake pads in its two-wheeler product portfolio, strengthening its leadership in this strategic sector.

All 75 of the Superveloce 75 Anniversario limited edition specials were sold out in seconds. Seconds! 

The new 10.25-inch TFT Bosch display debuts this year on BMW motorcycles.

Well, this is something you don’t hear every day – a recall for apparel. Currently, this recall is only for Europe. We’ll update this post if the recall extends to North America.

New to the market, the Quin Design Quest offers its smart helmet technology in a modular adventure helmet. 

Just when we thought the MV Agusta Superveloce couldn’t be any more drool-worthy, enter the Superveloce 75 Anniversario.

Looks like the successful alliance between Harley-Davidson and Vance & Hines is coming to an end, as The Motor Company pulls its direct involvement in NHRA and American Flat Track.

Back in September, Indian announced the eFTR Jr, an electric miniature version of the adult-size FTR750 flat tracker, to get kids (and their parents) excited about motorcycling. Click on the link to get some more information about the bike. For $750 USD, it’s a relatively affordable way for kids to get their first taste of two wheels and a motor.

The Royal Enfield Meteor 350 should be available in the U.S. by Spring 2021.

Motorcycling means different things to different people. The Rider Stories series is your chance to tell the world what motorcycling means to you.

Our friends at the Road Warrior Foundation and Can-Am will be giving away a custom Spyder F3 to a deserving veteran or service member.

Energica’s spreading a little MotoE love to its entire 2021 lineup.

Waterproof leather? Seriously? Why not. Aerostich has been doing it for years, and now we’re told they’re doing it even better.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected Andrea Iannone’s appeal and imposed a four-year ban on the Italian athlete. The Court’s decision has left other rider’s questioning the severity of the ruling. 

Congratulations to our friend Chris Fillmore for taking the 2020 AMA Supermoto Open Pro Championship onboard the KTM 450 SMR.

The 2021 KTM 690 Enduro R and 2021 KTM 690 SMC R are back for next year. Updated graphics and availability are the headlines here as the machines themselves remain unchanged for 2021. 

From South Africa to MotoGP, Brad Binder is on a meteoric rise. Red Bull has been there most of the way to watch his progression.

The MotoGeo host and world traveler talks about his experience with Arai helmets.

You’ll need to make a few other modifications too, but the new 590 cam is said to be the key to transforming your Milwaukee 8 into a whole`nother animal.

Lest anybody should get the wrong impression about yesterday’s announcement re: Kawasaki Heavy Industry’s spin-off of its motorcycle division, we just received this release from Kawasaki Motor Corp. USA’s CEO, who tells us business is good and the spin-off is only going to make it better. It’s a new day in America.

According to a post today in NHK World-Japan News:

Coronavirus-induced-panic sees motorcycle sales soaring!

Volcon’s new partners aim to give the electric off-roaders some serious performance. 

If you’re quirky enough to be a Moto Guzzi person, you may also be quirky enough to still consume printed media. And if not, when it’s gift-giving season, it’s always complimentary to pretend that the giftee is sophisticated enough to consume print media even if you are not. Books are a win/win, and Ian Falloon’s latest history of Moto Guzzi covers 100 years worth of Guzzis, up to and including the beautiful new V85TT.

Still no word on when the Tech-Air Off-Road system will be available for purchase.

If you missed the inaugural “King of the Baggers” race last Saturday (easy enough to do) from Laguna Seca, never fear. Our Indian friends put together a nice little 5-minute highlight reel including, nice of them, quick hits with famous riders on the competing brand.

WP XPLOR Pro 6500 Cartridge is here to make your dual-sport and enduro bike’s suspension more tunable. 

What do you do when you’re pinned down in Monaco and bored? Voxan had planned to travel to Bolivia last July to have its cutting-edge electric motorcycles break a bunch of speed records, but instead they’re going to Châteauroux airport in France to let their 367-horsepower (270 kW) electric bikes burn some electrons.

With its sights set on the huge target that is Asia, the Indian manufacturer says it plans to open a new plant in Thailand within the next 12 months, which can also feed Vietnam, Malaysia, China and others. As Harley retreats from India, RE says its sales have grown 88% across the region in the last year – and it even plans to launch one new bike per quarter for the next three to five years. Interesting story here at BBC.com.

Another exciting quick vid from Indian, re: its two Challengers which will participate in the King of Baggers Saturday at Laguna Seca, and testing fun with pilots Tyler O’Hara and Frankie Garcia.

Congrats to Briar Bauman and Indian Motorcycle Racing.

I don’t know why I like the Indian Challenger’s chances in the upcoming King o’ the Baggers race, against a field of mostly Harleys, but I just do – especially the one being prepped by Roland Sands and S&S Cycles for Frankie Garcia to ride. Okay, I think it’s because the Indian’s got a modern, liquid-cooled engine in a modern, cast-aluminum frame. But it might only be because Indian sent us this cool little video of the build. The race is coming up this Saturday from Laguna Seca. More info two news items down, please.

Quin Design Helmets adds a new color-way to its lightweight smart helmet line-up. 

If you were expecting a bunch of beer-gutted C-listers to be riding the 11 Harley-Davidson and two Indian baggers in MotoAmerica’s inaugural King of the Baggers race coming up next Saturday at Laguna Seca, you’re in for a surprise. The entry list includes some serious talent, including 1998 AMA Superbike champ Ben Bostrom. Better pack a lunch in those bags. If you can’t be in Monterey (and not many people can, thanks to Covid restrictions), find out how you can watch live at the link below (along with all the other races at the MotoAmerica GEICO Motorcycle Superbike Speedfest at Monterey).

Valentino Rossi has tested positive for the coronavirus and expects to miss the next two rounds of MotoGP in Spain at a minimum. 

The Daytona short track is going to be back in action for the first time since 2016 for two nights of double-headers.

Don’t feel like using wrenches and screwdrivers to change your KTM’s performance? Now you can simply log in to an app.

Kailub Russell has had an impressive run in the world of off-road racing. 

Klim announces it’s new footwear for adventure riders, the Adventure GTX boots. 

In addition to all the other swell motorcycles it rents in Europe, Hertz Ride has struck a new deal with MV Agusta. Now you can rent a Turismo Veloce 800 Lusso SCS or a Dragster Rosso in Italy and France. Soon to be followed by Portugal and Spain – also nice places to ride – and later even in the US, says MV.

The ladies are here to stay, dammit, and thank God for that. Polaris has put together a council of 12 of them, who will “drive increased participation, inclusion and representation in the world of powersports.” Socially-distant cocktail party factoid: Black women outnumber their male counterparts in snowmobiling by 61%.

Alpinestars has released Fabio Quartararo’s replica Supertech R race boots ahead of the Le Mans round of the 2020 MotoGP season. 

Well, it’s always close racing, but defending champ Briar Bauman and multi-time champ Jared Mees have been swapping Indian FTR roost all season. And it’s about to come down to it. Going into the penultimate round in Charlotte this weekend, Bauman leads Mees 256 to 244 points. And if history offers any hint, it very probably will all come down to a two-legged Daytona Short Track final October 16 and 17. If you’ve been Jonesing for a live motorcycle racing fix all season and you’re in the area, in the shadow of Daytona International Speedway isn’t a bad place to socially-distant fan out and enjoy some great racing.

Energica will continue to be the sole supplier of motorcycles in the MotoE championship through 2022. 

Not long ago, Harley announced its 131-inch Milwaukee Eight crate motor; now you can get all the components to roll your own in the privacy of your own home. Also kits to expand and enhance your M8 107, your M8 114… winter is coming. You know what to do.

I think we’re in Vietnam, harvesting coffee beans and bringing them down from the mountain, but Lotus Coffee’s video is a bit vague on particulars. And that’s not important right now. What’s important is these women’s mad skills and fortitude. Is that the proper protective footwear? I don’t think it is. It frightens me and makes me cringe in equal measure, and yet they get the job done and the music is at least soothing. Maybe time for a nice cold brew?

Twenty years ago, according to Wikipedia, Nitro Noriyuki Haga improved his performance to challenge for the title in  2000. However, his season was disrupted when he was tested positive for a banned substance. Haga was tested positive for the substance  Ephedrine after the race in South Africa, though it was later learned that Ephedrine occurs naturally in the herbs used in the  Ma Huang supplement that he’d taken during the off-season. He initially received a one-month ban beginning on June 5 and had his points from both South African races deducted. [5] However, after a series of appeals the points from Race 1 in South Africa were reinstated and the ban was delayed and reduced to a 2-week ban, resulting in Haga missing the final round at  Brands Hatch,  Great Britain. With Haga losing 25 points and sitting out a 2-race weekend, Colin Edwards comfortably won the 2000 championship.

The folks over at Moose Racing have rolled out some new grips for your whip. 

Business continues to look good says Can-Am On-Road reps. In fact, BRP’s on-road vehicle sales are said to be seeing six times the growth of the two-wheeled on-road segment. With relatively small changes for the 2021 Spyder models, Can-Am On-Road tells us they will continue to support new rider education initiatives as well as charitable programs to benefit minorities and women which it hopes will help bring a diverse rider base to the open road.

A week ago we were surprised to learn Harley-Davidson was pulling out of India after more than a decade producing and selling its products there. Today, it’s interesting to learn that Triumph Motorcycles is expecting its sales to grow around 15 to 20 per cent this fiscal year in India, and is gearing up to roll out a pre-owned vehicle program in the country by next month. That’s according to a senior company official quoted here in the Hindustan Times online.

The Progressive International Motorcycle Shows has taken the lemons of COVID-19 and made lemonade with the Progressive IMS Outdoors series of events. The outdoor format allows for more demo rides of more categories of powersports activities to be held. We’re looking forward to the final schedule of locations which will be released later in the year.

Polaris Industries and Zero Motorcycles announced a 10-year partnership to develop electric off-road vehicles and snowmobiles. Zero will be responsible for the powertrain technology, including both the physical hardware and the electronic software while Polaris will handle the development and manufacture of the rest of the vehicles.

Check it out, high-tech new touring boots aus Deutschland.

We would’ve loved this when we were kids. Now, Indian looks to instill the love of riding in kids with the eFTR Jr.

After he’d just lost everything in the nearby Almeda Fire, Scott Flick says  helping one Phoenix, Oregon, business owner was the least he could do. Riding his bike, Flick watched the fire swallow D and S Harley, but when the flames started making their way toward Oregon Motorcycle Adventures KTM, Flick says he couldn’t just stand by. After breaking down the door, Flick got to work.

RSD is building its own Indian Challenger to run against a field of 12 Harleys and one other Indian, in the inaugural King of the Baggers race scheduled to go off October 23-25 at Laguna Seca raceway during the last MotoAmerica round of the season. The bummer is no spectators will be allowed, thanks to Covid 19 restrictions. But you can settle onto the couch and sign up for an all-day view plan here – only $9.99 per event, with 6 to 8 hours of daily coverage.

Benelli enters the 500cc adventure market with the TRK502.

However business is at Maurice Slaughter’s three east-coast Harley dealerships, things have just taken a big upturn as his wife of 37 years, Cynthia Slaughter,  just gifted Maurice a surprise Ducati Superleggera, number 130 of 500. It just got off the boat last week. Personally, I think if more of this was going on, we’d have a lot more happy marriages. Read all about it at the the Virginia Pilot online here.

QJ-Motor Co., one of China’s largest two-wheel manufacturers, will handle distribution for MV Agusta within China.