Pro Stock and Top Fuel Motorcycles Return to Chicago, May 15-18
Celebrating its 25th year of racing at incredible Route 66 Raceway, the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series’ return to Chicago for the Gerber Collision & Glass NHRA Route 66 Nationals presented…
PDRA Cancels Pro Extreme Motorcycle Class Due to Lack Of Participation
For about 15 years PDRA has been home to the Pro Extreme Motorcycle class, which evolved from Pro Nitrous and what was formerly known as Pro Mod. As of late the class…
How Shawn Conrad Went from a Pickup Truck to Factory Ducati
Enjoy this interview from the Throttlestop Collection in Elkhart Lake, Wisc. as we catch up with road racing legend Shawn Conrad who explains how he went from a modest racing program out…
Nitro Grinch Steals Show at Snow Outlaws
Taking a radical new build from completion to the winners’ circle rarely happens right off the bat in motorsports, yet that’s exactly what did happen at the Snow Outlaws Winter Nationals presented by Rice Lake Tourism. A rowdy Wisconsin crowd…
Sampey and Krawiec to Race V&H Suzukis, New Role for Hines
Vance & Hines today announced details of its 2022 campaign to earn the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship, with a trio of former NHRA champions leading the charge. Andrew Hines will step up to the role of full-time Crew Chief…
Larry “Spiderman” McBride to Get Back on Top Fuel Bike after 14 Months
For 20-time Top Fuel Motorcycle champion and nitro drag bike racing legend Larry “Spiderman” McBride it feels like its been a lifetime since he made a run on his world record-holding motorcycle “Star.” The last time we saw McBride in…
Mecum Las Vegas 2022 Motorcycle Auction Takes January Sales to $239 Million
With January 2022 now in the rearview, Mecum Auctions has once again put its official stamp of unparalleled success into the record books with total sales from the world’s largest collector car auction and the world’s largest motorcycle auction reaching…
$124,000 posted in XDA Contingency Program for 2022
The XDA would like to thank Bates Leathers, Brock’s Performance, Cycle Concepts, DME Racing, MTC Engineering, Penske Racing Shocks, Vance & Hines, Voodoo Custom Motorcycle Components, and Worldwide Bearings for putting 124k of extra cash and gift certificates in the…
How Three Galah Birds Took Gold Christmas Trees
Circa 2014 , halfway across Australia, two multiple Top Fuel Motorcycle Champions , Chris Porter of Bad Bones racing and Chris “Nitro Voodoo” Matheson ,took time out from there 120-hour return trip from the East coast. The two Champs had…
The Story of Kelvin Jones’ 1978 Kawasaki KZ1000
Although the KZ1000 was born and introduced to the world in 1977, the release of the A2 models a year later might have had the more noteworthy debut. The Americanization of Kawasaki in June of 1978 had commenced with 200 personalized…
