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Returning Steve Plater Previews His Local Cadwell Park Round

Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by admin.

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As the Pirelli backed MCE British Superbike Championship heads for its second visit of the season to Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire, local lad Steve Plater previews the Party in the Park, talks about his long recovery process after injury and offers insight into how the BSB ‘Shootout’ might unfold.

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Tomas Chareyre Heads To Sicily To Reinforce His Leadership

Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by admin.

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Returning to Sicily after almost a decade, the FIM SuperMoto World Championship action resumes in Triscina this weekend on a new course yet to be discovered by the fastest Superiders in the world.

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Rizla Suzuki Set To Light Up Brands Hatch BSB

Posted on 04. Aug, 2010 by admin.

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Rizla Suzuki MotoGP will make the Brands Hatch Circuit in England reverberate to the ear-piercing sound of MotoGP machinery on Saturday and Sunday the 7th and 8th August, as the Suzuki GSV-R and Álvaro Bautista make guest appearances at the British Superbike Championship.

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Armoy Gears Up For Race Day With New Chicane

Posted on 04. Aug, 2010 by admin.

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‘Race of Legends’ the Armoy Road Race has attracted a full house of competitors, with 286 entries drawn from 129 riders who are competing for an £18,400 prize fund (including the Cross-Border Championship) in what is the final race of the 2010 Ulster Championship season. The Coleraine Skip Hire & Recycling backed event boasts a 10 race programme and takes place on Saturday 7th August on the edge of Armoy village close to the scenic Glens of Antrim in Moyle region. Roads close at 10am sharp on the Saturday morning and will re-open again by 7pm. Practice Day is Friday 6th August with roads closing from 2.30pm to 9pm to allow competitors to undertake untimed and timed laps per session.

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Ayrton Badovini secures record-breaking FIM Superstock 1000 title with the BMW S 1000 RR

Posted on 04. Aug, 2010 by admin.

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Italian rider Ayrton Badovini took the BMW S 1000 RR’s first international title – and set a new motorsports record this weekend – by taking his first FIM Superstock 1000 Cup.

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Open Fights For World And European Title

Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by admin.

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After three weeks break the FIM MX3 World Championship and UEM EMX2 European Championship will continue in Germany this weekend. Carlos Campano and Andrea Cervellin will defend leading positions.

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Brammo announces Empulse, a 100+ mph naked electric streetfighter with 100-mile range [w/video]

Posted on 15. Jul, 2010 by admin.

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Filed under: Motorcycle, Electric

Brammo Empulse – Click above to watch video after the jump

Watch yourself, a whole lot of people sitting on the electric motorcycle fence are about to get knocked off. Brammo has just revealed the Empulse – a brand new naked street fighting machine with the ability to carry you to speeds of over 100 miles per hour. Not only is it fast, it also goes the distance, coming in a trio of range-differentiated models. The 6.0 is said to be able to cover 60 miles on average, the 8.0 for 80 and the 10.0 for, you guessed it, 100 rapturous miles. To paraphrase a popular meme, electric motorcycles just got real.

After top speed and range, the next question usually asked about electric tech is the price and this is another area where the bike surprises. The Empulse 6.0 starts at $9,995. If that seems a bit high, consider that’s $2,000 less than the price we were originally quoted for the Enertia when we first took that Brammo commuter for a spin a couple years back. Add, or rather, subtract from that the different Federal and State incentives that have come into play and you could see the $13,995 cost for the 10.0 model drop to as low as $7,000.

There are still a lot of unreleased details about this road warrior. While we know the motor is liquid-cooled, we can’t yet give you numbers for the horsepower, torque or any of the battery pack specifics. We do expect we’ll have them for you long before the mid-2011 delivery date and perhaps as soon as July 24th. That’s when CEO Craig Bramscher will officially unveil the company’s latest creation at the 2010 Red Bull Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca where the North American edition of the FIM e-Power series is taking place.

Of course, it would be somewhat lame to show up at an electric motorcycle race and not compete and Brammo is promising not to disappoint. They have entered the 15-team fray with an Empulse RR race bike in a quest for both gold and glory.

If you’re as impatient as us, you don’t have to wait until then to see the Empulse in action though. Simply hit the jump for video of the new machine rolling along a sweet piece of highway and while you’re there, check out all the details in the official press release. Game on.

Update: Hell For Leather is reporting figures of 55 horsepower and 59 pound feet of torque.

Gallery: Brammo Empulse