Pro Stock Motorcycles Ready to Get Back to Work in Norwalk
A star-studded weekend is back at Summit Motorsports Park when the biggest names in drag racing celebrate NHRA’s 75th Anniversary at the 20th Annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. Annually one of…
Top Fuel Motorcycle Legend Larry “Spiderman” Recovering After High Speed Crash
40-plus year veteran, world-record-holder and multi-time Top Fuel Motorcycle champion Larry “Spiderman” McBride endured one of the scariest moments of his career at the IHRA Triple Crown Race at the track formerly…
Coolest Motorcycles and People at Laconia Bike Week
We head to the world’s oldest motorcycle rally, the 103rd Laconia Motorcycle Rally where we see a massive gathering of the Hells Angels and a ton of really cool custom bikes and…
Motorcycle Drag Racing Flashback
Dragbikes have evolved quite a bit over the past half-a-century or so. Here is how it all began. Motorcycles often outran cars in the 1950s and early 1960s. Here is Walt Ross on the drag strip at Fremont, Calif. in…
Dragbike Wheel Shatters off the Line
As motorcycles are pushed to their utter limits to achieve the lowest possible elapsed-time and highest possible mph, breakage can occur. It occurs quite often actually. Dragbike racing can be a war of attrition. But very rarely will a rider…
MetalScorpio Named IDBL’s Inaugural East Coast Nationals Event Title Sponsor
The Mickey Thompson Performance Tires International Drag Bike League ™ (IDBL) proudly announces MetalScorpio as the official event title sponsor for the inaugural East Coast Nationals slated for September 9-11 at Maryland International Raceway ™ (MDIR). The MetalScorpio East Coast…
Despite Herculean Effort by IDBL Staff, Rain Takes the Win at MDIR
The Mickey Thompson International Drag Bike League™ (IDBL)’s Inaugural Dragbike.com All-Star Shootout was cancelled due to persistent wet weather that plagued the East Coast. Since the event was canceled, Friday’s qualifying was a moot point—other than proving that MDIR’s…
Inaugural Dragbike.com All-Star Shootout is a “Go” at Maryland International Raceway
A bonus Pro Qualifying session has been added to the schedule The second Mickey Thompson Performance Tires International Drag Bike League (IDBL) event of the season will continue as planned on May 20 – 22, 2016. IDBL president Jack Korpela…
Gulf Oil International Extend Agreement with King Racing
The Gulf Oil International Group has announced an extension to its agreement for multi European Champions and Record Holders King Racing to manage the operations of the Gulf Oil Top Fuel Motorcycle Dragracing team in 2016. In an exciting year…
Larry and Steve McBride Making Valuable Use of Downtime Between Races
The machine shop at 15-time Top Fuel Motorcycle champions Larry and Steve McBride’s Newport News-Va. speed shop has seen almost daily use following the debut of the brothers’ new nitro dragbike at the ManCup Spring Cup in Valdosta, Ga., April…
