HONDA MOTORCYCLES has an electric motorcycle in the pipeline, to debut in Japan, according to reports from visordown.com news.
The bike, powered by a lithium-ion battery, will be geared towards corporate customers, according to Honda’s head of motorcycle operations, Tatsuhiro Ohyama.
IF YOU have any old video footage of road racer Joey Dunlop in action on the TT circuit, Duke Video needs you – it is compiling a difinitive DVD of his 26 TT victories.
According to Peter Duke, Duke’s managing director, footage has been uncovered of 24 of Joey’s TT wins.
“We need to track down footage of Joey’s very first TT win in 1977 and of the 1984 F1 race,” said Duke.
E-mail Simon Biggerstaff: sbiggerstaff@dukevideo.com
THE PROVISIONAL MotoGP calendar for 2010 has been unveiled.
Next year June 6th race will take place in Silverstone and the Hungarian GP on September 19th will take place in Balatonring.
IF YOU fancy watching some daring and exciting road race action, head North. The Ulster GP and Dundrod 150 road races get underway today, August 12th.