These clothes were made for riding

Icon’s notorious for tackling the problem of squids not using safety gear with loud, obnoxious products that look more at home in comic books than they do outside the world where chin strap beards and denim shorts are acceptable clothes … Continued

For Sale: Valentino Rossi’s last MotoGP bike

Top-level MotoGP racing machines almost never reach private hands. But, two of the most significant Ducatis ever, one of Casey Stoner’s GP10s and Valentino Rossi’s GP11 are going on auction in May. These are true race machines. Stoner took the … Continued

Drinking and street racing in Moscow with Drake McElroy

In this latest episode of Drake’s Passage, the X-Fighters judge and general short person explores the shady side of Moscow, Russia, street racing a 700bhp+ Audi SUV and drinking with bikers at Sexton, a post-apocalypse-themed bar.

40 years later, Paul Smart remembers the Imola 200

In 1972, Paul Smart won the Imola 200 aboard a a Ducati 750 equipped with Fabio Taglioni’s as-yet-unproven 90-degree, desmodromic valve L-twin. That victory kickstarted Ducati’s production bike race program and gave the company an engine architecture that is still … Continued

Custom: Rive Gauche CX500

Are we witnessing the birth of a new trend in custom bike building? First, Icon mounted knobbies and a beater fairing on a VF1000R, turning it into sort of a post-apocalyptic, high-speed dual-sport. Now, Parisian builder Rive Gauche has done … Continued

The fastest dirt bike in the world?

Racing homologation births some pretty epic motorcycles. RC30, OW01, various “R” model Ducatis and now this 2012 KTM 450 SX-F Factory. Just 400 units will be sold in America in 2012, the minimum required to allow Ryan Dungey to campaign … Continued