With its inaugural season successfully underway, applications are being accepted online for the 2009 season of the Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup at www.redbullrookiescup.com. The application deadline is Friday, August 15.

Cupertino, California (August 7, 2008) - Ducati North America is pleased to announce the winners of the Superbike Concorso's third round, which was held last weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Brea, CA (August 6, 2008) - American Suzuki Motor Corporation (ASMC) announced today that they have signed current AMA Supercross Champion, Chad Reed, to join the Rockstar Makita Suzuki factory race team for 2009. Reed will race the 2009 AMA Supercross series and other selected events in the United States as well as compete in supercross events in his home country of Australia aboard his Suzuki EFI RM-Z450.

NEW YORK, August 5, 2008 - College students who purchase a new Piaggio Fly 50 or 150 scooter get one of the most fun, fuel-efficient and low-emission rides around. And, through October 15, 2008, they'll also enjoy several free trips to the gas pump and plenty of storage to haul a laptop and book bag, courtesy of a free $50 gas card and top case offer from Italian scooter manufacturer Piaggio.

PICKERINGTON, Ohio - After a thrilling weekend of racing at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif. - sharing the spotlight with the stars of the MotoGP World Championship--the AMA Superbike Championship rolls into Lexington, Ohio, August 1-3.

The Olympics of action sports will enter its 14th chapter this week as X Games gets underway in Los Angeles.

MONTEREY, Calif. (July 25, 2008) - Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca officials today announced July 3-5, 2009 are the dates for the fifth annual Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix, featuring the MotoGP World Championship. The new race date will give extra incentive for American riders Nicky Hayden, John Hopkins and Colin Edwards as they take on the world's best on the most patriotic weekend of the year.

July 25, 2008 - Encinitas, CA - When talk turns to motocross it's not long before Ricky Carmichael's name dominates every conversation. Before focusing his full-time attentions to Camping World NASCAR East series stock car racing, the GOAT (ie: Great Rider of All Time) rewrote the record books with 15 championship titles and 150 motocross and supercross main event wins. And just like the promise he showed grasping a set of handlebars in his hands from the age of 5, his early showings behind the wheel of the Ken Schrader owned #4 Monster Energy Drink Chevrolet hint of great things to come. In the first 5 events he has captured two top 5 finishes, one top 10, and a pole position. While this may be news to some it comes as little surprise to fans who followed his motorcycle career. "Afterall," offered one observer, "His last name starts with the word 'CAR'."

Friday 25 July 2008 Bridgestone heads into the traditional three-week summer break on the back of its most competitive race weekends of the season with podium clean sweeps in both the wet Sachsenring and dry Laguna Seca GPs.

Surrounded by a convoy of over 300 keen motorcyclists, actor and adventurer Charley Boorman swept across the majestic Sydney Harbour Bridge on July 22nd, aboard a BMW R 1200 GS Adventure.

How far would you go to prove you love riding motorcycles? BMW Motorrad dealers and HP2 Megamoto riders Max and Ben Stratton drove more than 2,000 miles (3,250 kilometres) from the east coast of the USA all the way to the Colorado Rockies - and then back again - just for a 15-minute run up the famous 14,000-feet Pikes Peak mountain. A road-weary Max Stratton shares the experience with BMW Motorrad.

AMHERST, OH (July 24, 2008) - KTM North America, Inc. is proud to announce its partnership with TrueSports, Incorporated, to feature KTM motorcycles as the Official Motorcycle of Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and The Mid-Ohio School.

COLORADO SPRINGS -July 24, 2008 - An Italian bike-the Aprilia SXV 5.5-easily outdistanced a competitive field to earn victory in the 86th annual Pike's Peak Race to the Clouds: America's most famous, toughest and most spectacular hill climb.
The Aprilia SXV 5.5 recorded the best time of any motorcycle, and left even the winner of the 1200 cc class trailing in the distance by a full 23 seconds.

Hey Guys,
Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know that Brittown will be screening in NYC on Aug. 6th at 10pm at the Anthology Film Archives theater.

The 2008 edition of La Ducati Day will take place in the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountain town of La Honda, California.

Cupertino CA (23 July 2008) - Ducati North America is proud to officially announce its victory at the 86th annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb; on a customer spec Hypermotard.

Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd is delighted to announce that it has signed a new one-year deal with current Tech 3 Yamaha team rider Colin Edwards. Edwards will continue to race with the Tech 3 Team alongside Briton James Toseland in 2009.

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd is delighted to announce that it has signed a new two-year agreement with Valentino Rossi. The seven-time world champion will continue to race with the Yamaha Factory Racing Team for the 2009 and 2010 MotoGP World Championships.

MONTEREY, Calif. (July 21, 2008) - Tom Cruise along with 131,250 fans watched Valentino Rossi score his first victory on American soil at the 2008 Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix. It was an epic battle between Casey Stoner and Rossi, with many changes of the lead and some very close racing. Rossi sealed his victory with a kiss, parking his bike in Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca's legendary corkscrew, a series of turns with a 300 foot elevation change and kissing the pavement."Our fans were treated to breathtaking racing this weekend," said Gill Campbell, CEO/general manager of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. "Between the Red Bull U.S. Rookies Cup photo finish and Rossi's first win in America, it will be a weekend they will never forget."

Fiat Yamaha Team rider Valentino Rossi took his first career win on American soil today, emerging victorious after an epic duel with Casey Stoner at Laguna Seca. The Italian, who signed a new two-year deal with Yamaha this week, has now won four races this season and is 25 points clear at the top of the championship.

Monterey, Calif. (July 17, 2008) -- The Red Bull AMA U.S. Rookies Cup returns to action with a doubleheader weekend at the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix this weekend. The exciting series consisting of some of the most talented 13 to 16 year olds in North and South America, and the Caribbean, gets to race on a global stage for the first time at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, Calif., on Saturday and Sunday.

July 17, 2008 - Encinitas, CA - The clock is ticking down for X Games 14 (July 31st thru August 3rd) and one of motorcycling's most celebrated athletes, Jeremy McGrath, is using the time to prepare himself for what could become his most exciting appearance yet. Though mostly retired from pro racing, the celebrated "King of Supercross" has his sights set on a fourth X Games appearance and he could prove to be a spoiler to a stacked field of current AMA pros invited to compete along with him. But unlike in years past, the AMA's winningest rider in Supercross history is channeling all of his energies into a single event, MotoX Racing.

Three, count them, three, customized Suzukis by Gregg's Customs and Sport Chrome will be unveiled at the Suzuki tent during Saturday's lunch break at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, California round of the Moto GP world racing series, July 19.

Racing 2 Save Lives, a unique organization that brings together motorcyclists to help raise funds for children's charities, will visit VIRginia International Raceway in Alton, Va., on August 11-14, for the second and final event of R2SL's 2008 season.

Michelin's seven MotoGP riders face one of the most thrilling challenges of the World Championship season at Laguna Seca, the rollercoaster Californian racetrack that is the first of the sport's two Stateside stops this year. In September the MotoGP circus returns to the US for the inaugural Indianapolis motorcycle GP.