I FEEL THE NEED, THE NEED, FOR SPEED Allow me to pose a notion to you. The fastest part of any track is a straight. To the extent that this is true, would you agree that increasing the speed you travel along a straight will lower your lap time? If you answered yes,...
COAST AND YOU’RE TOAST Come on, admit it. You coast, don’t you? By coast, I am not referring to cruising past a beach boulevard admiring the sights. No, the coast I am referring to is the gap, or time differential, between control inputs while riding your motorcycle. ...
JUST RELAX, OK? To go fast, you must be relaxed on the bike. Heard that before? Yeah, me too. The problem is, as you work to go faster on track, you tend to do the opposite. High speed, cornering and braking forces can turn you into a pretzel, your muscles tight and...
Kudos to Ducati for continually updating the Ducati Panigale V4. Few competitors evolve their superbikes with the frequency that Ducati does. For example, in the nine years since Yamaha released its new R1 in 2015, it has been updated only once. In the same period,...
The 2023 BMW S1000RR has had some magic dust sprinkled upon it. But as is often the case with new model launches, the big-ticket changes often obscure the little details I find so fascinating. So let’s dig some of them up. 2023 BMW S1000RR M Package What is Ducati...
