Our Italian cousins over at Motoblog were at the Aprilia Alitalia Racing Team presentation that was held today at the airport of Fiumicino in Roma for the official unveiling of Aprilia’s RSV4 new Tricolour livery for the 2010 World Superbike Championship.

This livery, brings together two prestigious Italian brands with Italian energy giant ENI also sponsoring the superbike team that will see Max Biaggi in his second year with the team joined by British Superbike champion Leon Camier.

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We’ve seen a Buell 1125R on ice and we had Vittoriano Guareschi doing Holiday on Ice numbers with a Ducati Desmosedici GP7 (video after the jump) now we’ve got the latest superbike the BMW S 1000 RR that instead of hitting the asphalt of a race track, hits this frozen over lake.

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This gospel-going, Indian-style-taxi tuned Moto Guzzi has so much character you’ve got to look at it more than once to take in all the details. I figure it’s a limousine Moto Guzzi version, and while there doesn’t seem to be a backseat, I’m sure you can fit some wine on there somewhere.

Send your funny, bizarre or surprising pics to us and we’ll post them, with your name. We’d love to share what you guys find in the world of motorcycling! Send to: pics@twowheelsblog.com.

Source | Motorbiker

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Crossbreed Cycles have developed this gorgeous “AlfaBeast V6″, using the engine of one of motoring’s well known brands. Crossbreed Motorcycles is all the work of just one man, Chris Barber, and in this cross between the motorcycle and car worlds, he has used an Alfa Romeo V6, 2.5-litre, 12 valve engine. This engine appeared back in 1979 in the famous Coupe GTV6 and was capable of 160 hp.

A few other tweaks to create this Alfa Beast V6 include the use of a four-speed Harley gearbox, water and oil radiators, and forks and brakes from the Kawasaki ZXR-750. The frame is a Kraft Tech hardtail. For more information on Chris Barber and his amazing creations, see the Crossbreed website.

Source | Motosblog.fr

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After Yamaha’s announcement that their will no longer be data sharing between Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo and the Spaniard’s nettled: “I don’t have anything to comment on this.” We thought that the story was laid to bed, instead Lorenzo in an interview with Spanish AS.com has come out with his opinion on the question.

“I have great respect for Valentino. He has an incredible talent and is an intelligent person. Last year I was close to beating him and with a step forward I can have the chance to succeed. I do not care what he says, I’m not interested in listening to that I copy his bike’s settings to win. I think about myself. In 2009, we compared data and there were races where we did well, in others both Valentino and I did worse.”

The choice to avoid data sharing in Yamaha has however surprised Lorenzo, at least from a company point of view:

“I don’t know why Yamaha made this choice, I believe that this will slow down development on the bike. However I’m not worried, I’m self sufficient.”

Lorenzo also explained the gap between him, Rossi and Casey Stoner in the Sepang test:

“I’m a bit of a diesel, I start slowly, and then build up for the to start the championship. Stoner and Valentino are now very fast, but there’s only a few tenths catch up on, I am not worried there’s 18 races and the championship is very long.”

Source | as.com via sportmediaset

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Last Friday at the BMW Group Classic in Munich, Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport officially launched its second season in the FIM Superbike World Championship with Troy Corser and Ruben Xaus who are ready to begin the 2010 season that takes of at Phillip Island February 28th.

In the presence of Infront Motor Sports CEO Paolo Flammini, Superbike World Championship Director Paolo Ciabatti and other guests, Corser and Xaus arrived on stage, riding their BMW S 1000 RR bikes.

Director BMW Motorrad Motorsport Berthold Hauser has ambitious goals: “Our goal is to close the gap to the leading teams. We are aiming to finish in the top five as regularly as possible and pick up our first podium. That’s the ambitious aim we have set ourselves for our second year in what is an extremely challenging World Championship. However, we are well aware that our competitors have not been standing still either. The Superbike World Championship brings us up against six motorcycle manufacturers who have established themselves on the race track. You can set yourself aims in sport and make plans to achieve them, but you cannot dictate results – those have to be earned out on the track. Team BMW Motorrad Motorsport is working flat out to make this possible.”

Davide Tardozzi, former Ducati team manager will head up team management and operational control at the race tracks. Rainer Bäumel will continue as Head of Overall Project Management and Project Management Engineering, and Tardozzi has been given carte blanche by the German company.

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Here are more pics of the Mustang bike revival from the guys at California Scooter Company, where you can get a closer look at the Classic, Greaser and Baby Doll models. I like the Classic model but there’s no way you’d catch me on the Babydoll one. You can also get custom built models. See the California Scooter Company site for more details.

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The other day we reported that Giampiero Sacchi could be leaving his role as head of Aprilia’s racing program, latest news have it that Sacchi will be presenting his letter of resignation tomorrow.

Sacchi’s resignation will create a void in the company because he’s been with the company for since the early 80’s in one form or another and he’s the one that brought back Max Biaggi (he used to be Biaggi’s personal manager in 1994 and 1995) to the Aprilia fold for their WSBK project with the RSV4 Factory.

The Italian manager will be replaced by Marco Ferro, who used to work in Aprilia’s PR department when Ivano Beggio used to run the company, and could be officially presented during the Aprilia-Alitialia team launch on February 9th.

Sacchi won’t be unemployed for long because he could be heading back to the GP paddock and working for Dorna.

Source | duegommeslick

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For racing fans around the world WSBK Champion Ben Spies is a household name, but for the mainstream sports press especially in the U.S. where football rules and in motorsports, NASCAR is the queen, motorcyle racing is relegated to the role of Cinderella and barely gets a mention.

In Europe, motorcycle racers are recognized as atheletes and superstars and get in the news and on the front pages, so when Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert gets up in front of the U.S. House of Reprensentatives and pays tribute to Ben Spies and his world title, we think that this is a first step in the right direction in recognizing and bringing the due attention on this wonderful sport, that we all love and respect.

Press Release after the jump and if you want to see a video interview with Ben Spies discussing his switch to MotoGP on Wind Tunnel just click here.

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Julien Dupont, our favorite urban freestyler, has started the new year with another wild escapade in Mexico City to add to his collection of Ride the World videos.

Dupont decides to take on a Mexican traffic jam and here’s the results. Enjoy.

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