MotoGP

Electric motorcycles are great. They don’t make noise, they offer max torque right off the bat, and they convert a majority of their stored energy into useful work. The more expensive and advanced ones also manage to recover energy through regenerative braking, thus extending range. The downsides are well-known, though. Batteries and electric motors are heavy, and the former cannot…

Yamaha’s 2021 MotoGP world champion Fabio Quartararo has said the Japanese manufacturer is right in developing a V4, following the first European test of the engine at Valencia last week. While Pramac Yamaha rider Augusto Fernandez was the man in the saddle for the test, all the marque’s riders were questioned about the latest on the V4 ahead of this…

The walls seem to close in on Ola Electric as another shipment delay of Roadster X is reported. Ola Electric launched its first motorcycle — Roadster X — in February this year at a starting price of Rs 74,999 (ex-showroom). However, the Bengaluru-based EV manufacturing startup has failed to deliver a single unit of the electric motorcycle to its customers….

Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo broke Ducati’s long stranglehold on MotoGP pole positions by going fastest in Saturday’s qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez. The 2021 world champion thus delivered on the clear potential he had shown in Friday practice, when he reported he was surprised by his own speed aboard the M1. The pole position is the first for…

Barry Brecheisen/Getty Images Harley-Davidson’s direct-to-consumer electric motorcycle brand LiveWire makes a variety of exciting and fun-to-ride motorcycles, and if the brand’s 2025 first quarter financials are anything to go by, absolutely nobody is buying them. According to the report LiveWire sold just 33 motorcycles across Q1’s 90 day period, down 72% from…

Marc Marquez shrugged off a brief challenge from Fabio Quartararo as he took a fifth straight 2025 sprint race victory aboard the factory Ducati. Although Quartararo was able to convert his surprise pole position into a brief lead, he fell when Marquez overtook him halfway around the second lap. That was the end of any challenge to the Ducati dominance,…

The Spanish GP marked MotoGP’s entry into Europe, where it will remain for the coming months. It was the fifth round of the season, which has left the championship wide open. Álex Márquez (BK8 Gresini/Ducati) leads by just one point over his brother, Marc (Ducati Lenovo). But compared to the same stage last year, who has gained and lost the…

Google The incident happened on Link Road in Rotherham Police have appealed for information as a 14-year-old boy remains in hospital in a critical condition a week after he was involved in a serious collision. The boy’s electric motorcycle collided with a black Mitsubishi L200 pick-up truck on Link Road in the Thrybergh area of Rotherham, just after 14:10 BST…

Injured MotoGP world champion Jorge Martin has arrived back in his home town of Madrid less than two weeks after his horror crash at the Qatar Grand Prix. Martin took a special flight from Doha on Saturday and was then taken to hospital in Madrid, where he underwent a CAT scan to determine the true extent of his lung and…

The idea of electric motorcycles is compelling, but efforts have come up short for me. The range has been horrific, and the bikes seemed not fully baked. After hearing from moto friends and journalists that Zero Motorcycle models fared well, I had high hopes for the DSR/X dual-sport machine. The 2025 Zero Motorcycles DSR/X is an impressive-looking electric dual-sport/adventure motorcycle….

“Our tyre plan was f***ed up by the crash” So spoke Gresini Ducati team manager Michele Masini following Alex Marquez’s rollercoaster Friday at last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix.  That’s nothing particularly unusual in motorsport, of course. But these words weren’t muttered under Masini’s breath at the back of his team’s sky blue garage. They came through loud and clear on…

For the second time in three Grands Prix, Marc Marquez crashed at Jerez; a crash that cost him dearly in terms of accounting, and which, above all, allowed the competition to believe that anything is still possible. The eight-time world champion is the best rider at the moment, all right, but he hasn’t managed to capitalize on this period of…

The Matter Aera has launched on Flipkart, starting at ₹1.83 lakh (ex-showroom), is being offered with multiple discounts as part of the Flipkart ‘Big Savings Days Sale’. …Read More The Matter Aera looks sharp and well-balanced from all angles. (Tej Patel for HT Auto) Matter has officially launched the Aera, its geared electric motorcycle on Flipkart, the e-commerce platform at…

MotoGP has committed to race in Jerez until at least 2031 after the series’ commercial rights holder Dorna extended its contract with the track. The Andalusian venue, which is hosting the Spanish Grand Prix for the 38th time this weekend, has become one of the most iconic stops on the calendar. It therefore comes as no surprise that an extension to…

It appears tariff troubles are finally catching up to the motorcycle world. And as expected, the first hit is coming to the electric motorcycle segment. We say so because Zero Motorcycles has just announced a price update is in the progress for its recently revealed XB and XE. …  read more www.topspeed.com

By one of those whims of fate that seem to be straight out of a science fiction movie, Alex Marquez had to wait 93 – Marc’s famous race number – grands prix in the heavyweight class to be able to call himself a race winner. But the younger Marquez’s triumph at Jerez last weekend was richly deserved. Ever since the…

After a successful FY 2025 that saw the Indian electric two-wheeler market cross the million annual sales (or 10 lakh units) mark in FY 25, the momentum seems to carry forward to FY26 as well.  For in the first month of FY 26, i.e. in April, the electric two-wheeler segment has already registered sales of 91,791 units. TVS is leading this…

Pedro Acosta underwent surgery on Tuesday to treat the compartment syndrome in his right forearm, a condition that has affected him since his MotoGP debut last year. In a brief statement released by KTM late on Tuesday, the Austrian manufacturer confirmed the intervention on its rider, though it stopped short of providing much detail. “Pedro Acosta underwent surgery for chronic…

LiveWire, Harley-Davidson’s electric motorcycle subsidiary, has recently filed the trademark to the name «Doki» – which may refer to a maxi-scooter developed in collaboration with Kymco. The application covers ‘motor scooters; electrically powered motor scooters; two-wheeled motorized vehicles; two-wheeled electric motorized vehicles; motorcycles; electric motorcycles; structural parts for the foregoing’. In the patent, which is still pending approval, LiveWire clarified…