Franco Morbidelli was the surprise of the 2020 MotoGP season. The Petronas Yamaha SRT rider shocked the MotoGP world by finishing second in the championship, and comfortably the best Yamaha rider, on a year-old M1 machine. But Morbidelli went into the 2020 with very little pressure on him. After a mediocre 2019, in which he had been overshadowed by his…
According to the latest reports, Honda Motorcycles saw the sharpest decline in sales last year, 2020. Here are the details! Honda started its motorcycle business over 70 years ago in 1949. Just 15 years later, by 1964 Honda grew up to be one of the word’s largest motorcycle company in the world. As of 2021, with over 400 million sales…
Nothing grabs the headlines quite like an enormous selling price at auction. We’ve seen motorcycles sell for phenomenal money over the years, but they’re usually rare examples of stock machines, models attached to a celebrity, or low-volume racing prototypes. It’s quite unusual to see true custom-built café racers bring in the bucks. Since originality is one of the key features…