The entire Ducati circus is down in Austin this week for the international media launch of the Ducati 1199 Panigale R. We’ll be there Thursday, but until then, here’s 75 gorgeous photos of the fastest bike in the world, lapping … Continued
This is the helmet Ducati’s newest rider will be racing in for 2013. The HJC RPHA 10 has been updated with cleaner take on Spies’ red, white and blue Lone Star. That helmet is the flagship of HJC’s new high-quality … Continued
When we sat down with Ben Spies a week or so back one of the things we talked about was Stackhouse, his new burger joint in Dallas. The famously verbose, insightful racer didn’t say much beyond, “I like it because … Continued
“Switching from an 800 to a 1,000cc Yamaha is just like riding a big v-twin compared to an inline-four,” describes factory Yamaha rider Ben Spies. “It feels slower and smoother, but they’ve got so much more torque that it ends … Continued
What happens when a MotoGP racer takes a brand-new liter bike on a public trackday, then every color but red is desaturated? Less mayhem than you might expect, but more on-message product talk on the 2012 Yamaha R1 than you’ll … Continued
On Friday afternoon I sat down with Ben Spies and asked him about food, music, celebrity life and motorcycles. He’d had a few minutes to get cleaned up after coming off the track, but his mind was as occupied as … Continued
“Read, Agostini, they all ran similar colour schemes when they won so the opportunity to use it on the YZR-M1 is really nice,” says Jorge Lorenzo. He and Ben Spies will mark Yamaha’s 50th anniversary in GPs by racing in … Continued