Toyota of Redlands Introduces 2026 Riders
Following the team’s most successful season to date, which produced a trio of postseason participants, Toyota Redlands BarX Yamaha is eager to announce its youth-driven rider lineup for the 2026 SuperMotocross (SMX)…
Sweet Home Sturgis – Lynyrd Skynyrd Returns Home to the Stage Built for Them
At the 1998 Sturgis Rally, after performing through a particularly nasty storm, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s tour manager told Sturgis Buffalo Chip owner Rod “Woody” Woodruff that the band had such a great time…
How He Practically Stole This Z1 Drag Bike At Auction
We head to the Throttlestop collection in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin where we catch up with Jim Balestrieri to talk about how he got perhaps the steal of the Mecum Motorcycle auction when…
Nitro Harley Championship Comes Down to the Wire
The 2012 International Hot Rod Association (IHRA) World Champion, Jay Turner, is looking to secure his fourth IHRA Championship at the Summit World Finals featuring Nitro Jam on October 9 – 10. Turner has a 67 point lead over Tracy…
Terry McIntosh Machine and Bud Yoder Planning for Another Record Performance
Where will the Pro Street record stand at the end of 2015? There are some races known for record-setting performances on the horizon. In the first half of the season in 2014, Pro Street competitors were racing to be the…
HTP’s Cecil Towner Discusses Pro Street Turbo and Nitrous Parity
One of the world’s most renowned dragbike builders, tuners and longtime nitrous loyalist, Cecil Towner of HTP Performance has a spectacular resume that includes being the first to put a Real Street bike in the sevens and the first to…
Larry “Spiderman” McBride Gains Costly Rockingham Victory
When it comes to winning, many racers live by the cliché, “whatever it takes.” Four motors, three drive chains, three sprockets and a whole pile of broken parts was the price of victory for 14-time Top Fuel Motorcycle champion Larry “Spiderman”…
V-Rods Dominate Pro Stock Motorcycle in Brainerd
Harley-Davidson® Screamin’ Eagle®/Vance & Hines rider Ed Krawiec won an all-Harley final at the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway. With both riders aboard Harley-Davidson® V-Rod motorcycles, Krawiec defeated teammate Andrew Hines to claim a third-consecutive Pro Stock…
Remembering Dragbike Racer Dean Frantz
In the glory days of AMA Prostar, Ohio had a well-earned reputation for being the home of some of the world’s most talented two-wheel racers. Dean A. Frantz, 52, of Medina, was certainly a racer who helped gain the Buckeye…
Remembering Kawasaki’s John Hoover
It’s unfortunate such influential and wonderful people in the sport of motorcycle drag racing always seem to leave too soon. Factory involvement is what made AMA Prostar the major league of dragbike racing in its day. One of the key…
