Go Dan River.com has a great article about helmets and racing. From the article:

The helmet is considered to be a potential billboard for many product sponsors, but riders frequently have their gear custom painted.

The great majority of helmet graphics worn at VIR this weekend are painted at any one of about a dozen high-end studios located across...

Read Jason Wolf's full article in The Reidsville Review at godanriver.com

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The reaction to Daytona Motorsports Group's planned changes to the AMA Superbike series may have finally reached the boiling point. This article at webBikeWorld announces the potential for a revolt and the formation of a new series. Will it happen?

Motorcycle Industry Council to Organize New U.S. Road Race Series?
IRVINE, Calif., June 26, 2008 - Is this a bluff to get DMG to change its plans, or is it for real?

The Motorcycle Industry Council, with headquarters in Irvine, California, is a not-for-profit, national trade association representing more than 300 manufacturers and distributors of motorcycles, scooters, motorcycle/ATV parts and accessories and members of allied trades.

The MIC announced that, on behalf of its 300-plus members, it is evaluating whether to...

Read full story at webBikeWorld

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Monster Kawasaki’s Jamie Hacking admitted he was surprised to be the fastest Superbike rider in the first session at Miller Motorsports Park and he also expects that the dominant Rockstar Makita Suzukis won’t take it lightly.

Hacking became the first non-Suzuki rider to lead a Superbike session, practice, qualifying, or warm-up, when he topped the first...

Read the full article by Henny Ray Abrams in Cycle News

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The blowback from the effort to transform the AMA Superbike series has begun in earnest. In a nutshell, two of the AMA series' stalwart riders have made their opinions known-- Honda rider Josh Hayes (who actually doesn't have a Superbike ride) in his hometown newspaper and Suzuki's Mat Mladin from the podium at Infineon a weekend ago. Both strongly condemned the Daytona Motorsports Group(DMG)approach in apocalyptic terms...

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And, ultimately, that's why DMG's disfiguration of AMA Superbike racing will eventually fail, if it is not critically...

Read the full article in the North Denver News

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SONOMA -- Ben Spies put together a dominating performance on Saturday, leading the Kawasaki AMA Superbike Showdown at Infineon Raceway from nearly start to finish to earn his third straight Superbike victory of the season.

But Spies' effort on the track was overshadowed by Mat Mladin's outburst after the race, as the six-time AMA champion sounded off on new series owners Daytona Motorsports Group and the changes it has proposed for next season.

"You saw the best riders in America on the best bikes," Mladin told fans as he was being interviewed in the winner's circle. "Hopefully next year you won't see a bunch of piece of crap motorcycles with...


Read the full article by Curtis Pashelka in the Contra Costa Times and see a slideshow from the race

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