John Penton was one of the most influential figures in the development of off-road motorcycle racing in America during the 1960s and ’70s. His life’s story is triumphant and tragic. When his attempts to convince Husqvarna to produce a smaller, lighter motorcycle fell on deaf ears, Penton created his own design and commissioned KTM, a small moped and bicycle maker in Austria, to build it. The motorcycle was an instant success in off-road competition and led KTM to expand its efforts in the motorcycle realm, initially in conjunction with Penton and ultimately on its own. Today, KTM is the largest manufacturer of motorcycles outside of Japan and winning championships around the world.

When inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1998, Penton still lived on the family farm not more than a couple hundred yards from where he was born. One of his sons, Jack, became a renowned rider in his own right and competed in 12 ISDE events and was named to the Hall of Fame a year after his father. Continue Reading »

Star of Magic Mike, 21 Jump Street (2012), and beefcake du jour, Channing Tatum is set to star in and co-produce a feature film about the greatest daredevil of all time, Evel Knievel.

According to a July 10 report on HollywoodReporter.com the film is based on the biography Life of Evel: Evel Knievel by Stuart Barker.

No word yet on when the project will enter production, and currently nothing about the film is listed on IMDb.com.

Source: HollywoodReporter.com

Last night Kawasaki premiered Grassroots: Celebrating 30 Years of Team Green at Oakley sunglasses HQ theater at Oakley headquarters in Foothill Ranch, California. Powersports industry personalities, Team Green racers from all disciplines, friends and journalists were all in attendance to support and celebrate Kawasaki’s commitment to the up-and-coming racer.

The 24-minute movie highlights the past and present efforts Kawasaki delivers to amateur racers, turning them into the champions race fans love to celebrate. There’s more video footage available from current racers, but the vintage early ’80s clips add to the movie’s value.

Currently, the movie is available for free at the iTunes store. Simply go to iTunes and search for Grassroots: Celebrating 30 Years of Team Green, sit back and enjoy the show.

I don’t know about you, but whenever I get word of a motorcycle movie coming out, I roll my eyes. I can’t help but laugh at what will probably be a terrible flick with naked girls, over-the-top chase scenes (usually where the motorcyclist is the bad guy), and gratuitous wheelies, burnouts, endos and other maneuvers that the general public often associate with “bikers.” That’s not always the case though, and once in a while a movie slips through the cracks that gets me genuinely excited. TT3D is one of them. Check out the trailer after the jump.

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Peter Fonda, who played Wyatt in the 1969 cult classic, Easy Rider, was in Glendale, CA on Friday to help promote the Blu-Ray release of the film which marks the 40th anniversary.  The movie was scheduled to be shown at the Love Ride event that was canceled this year, instead the film screened at a local Harley-Davidson dealer.

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The motorcycle costume that was worn by Megan Fox will be on the auction block along with more then 100 other pieces of paraphernalia from the 2009 blockbuster sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen that has raked in $831 million world wide so far this year.

The outfit will be auctioned on October 9th, bids are being taken online at icollector.com, if your interested it will cost you at least $3,500, the current bid is $3,250 but its expected to sell for about $5,000.

Good luck!

Bleu and some of his co-stars were on hand at a Kawasaki event at Piru Motocross Park in Piru, California to promote the film and the actor/singer took to the track. Bleu got geared up and took a KLX110 and a KLX140 around the track to have a little fun.

We can’t vouch for the quality of the motocross scenes in the film or Bleu’s riding ability, but Free Style appears to be aimed directly at the young entertainer’s fan base of not quite teenage girls who would like nothing more than to see him find love and win races.

If you’d like to see the trailer you can find it after the jump.

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Comic-Con has just finished up and tons of fun, geeky and crazy things have been announced.

A long long time ago we posted a very crappy version of the Tron 2 trailer that I believe was played at last year’s Comic-Con.  Well it’s officially been released to the public, and it looks pretty slick in glorious HD.

The new light cycles look and act amazing.  Kudos to Disney for keeping the same style of the bike but updating them for the modern audience.

The movie comes out in 2010 and on IMAX screens in 3D! Jeff Bridges is still the star and will probably kick ass.

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I do vaguely remember this 1991 musical/romance movie that starred Robert Matthew Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), maybe I just buried it so far back in my subconscious that it just seems like a faded memory.  The movie is loosely based on the classic film Rebel Without a Cause, and I do mean loosely.  Cool as Ice, did win its share of awards and recognition but not of the positive variety.  It received an 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, made it to #7 on Blender’s worst performance by a musician turned actor and was nominated seven times at the 12th Golden Raspberry Awards.

Claiming to have raced in professional motocross, Vanilla Ice did all of the motorcycle stunts in the movie, so I guess he deserves some props but that’s hard to do when he proudly admits to coming up with a lot of the one liners, like, “Drop that zero and get with the hero.”

Check out the painful-to-watch tributes after the jump.

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As you may or may not know, Aprilia is the official motorcycle brand that movie starlet Megan Fox rides in the upcoming Transformers sequel, “Revenge of the Fallen”.

Aprilia must be loving the coverage as they are churning out media on the internet to make everyone salivate over Megan Fox sitting on their bike.

They’ve gone a step sideways and thrown up this video of a Transformers themed Aprilia RSV 1000R. The big problem with it is there’s no Megan Fox riding on it, just some dude.

Oh well, it’s still a sweet looking ride.

The new Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen movie opens June 24, 2009 (and I don’t plan on seeing it)

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