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Interview: Davide Tardozzi officially confirms split with BMW
The rumors were hot and heavy regarding BMW firing team manager Davide Tardozzi, but Italian website Motonline.it contacted the Italian manager yesterday to get it straight from the so called horse’s mouth regarding the situation and Tardozzi confirmed that he is infact leaving the German Superbike team.
Tardozzi who in January of this year signed a three year contract with BMW, will be leaving after less than a season with the team. Here’s what he had to say about the split.
“I’m not even going to France, it would be useless. I’m done with BMW and I have time to talk to other teams. In the first half of the season they let me work like we agreed upon and as it should be if I was to guarantee results, then things began changing, the friction started and gradually it became worse and eventually there was a break-up, it was unavoidable. Regardless of the results on the track, someone didn’t like the way I worked and with the complicity of others, tried to get me into trouble.”
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WSBK: Leon Haslam released from Alstare Suzuki, heading to BMW
Alstare Suzuki’s team owner Francis Batta has been having problems finding official financial backing from Suzuki all this year and has been very outspoken about the situation, with complaints that his winning team is being deprived of help and funding in favour of Suzuki’s MotoGP team, and may be forced to run just a single rider in next season’s Superbike championship.
Leon Haslam, who is the 2010 WSBK runner-up and paid directly by Batta and not by Suzuki, had a contract option for 2011, pending that the Japanese manufacturer would officially back the team, but with factory still not expressing their intentions, Batta has decided to release Haslam from his contract with this press release:
“Team Alstare hereby informs the international press and media that Leon Haslam has been released from the two-year contract with Team Alstare.
For the past six weeks Team Alstare has been waiting for an answer from its principal partner regarding the
situation for the future of the Team.”
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2010 BMW Motorrad Days gallery
I’ll admit that when I first started writing about bikes, there was a lot of focus (here in Europe) on sexy Italian style - you know, lots of Ducati red, legends like MV Agusta and the EICMA show in Milan sometimes made you feel like little Italy was taking over the motorcycling world, too. And while BMW had plenty of loyal followers in the ranks of bikers in the know and BMW owners, the BMW S1000RR made the rest of us really sit up and take notice, not just at it, but also at the other bikes in the BMW line-up.
The 2010 BMW Motorrad Days celebrated the variety of BMW bikes now available, and all the weird and wonderful things people like to do to their BMWs. What you see in these pics is quite a collection of vintage and new BMWs, from the original R80 to the current R1200GS, and from rat bikes, to sidecars and trikes.
The great thing about the Motorrad Days is its democratic feel - there are plenty of personalised BMWs out there to look at, vintage models, retro concept bikes and private race bikes. The competition for the bike with the most miles was won by a girl who rides an R80GS with 500,000 km clocked on the mileage…! Check out the 100+ below of the 2010 BMW Motorrad Days.
2011 Husqvarna preview: BMW Husqvarna Motorsport prototype
We’ve got no news yet on how on the new BMW Husqvarna Motorsport 450cc prototype faired, but over the weekend the first prototype bike was used at the FIM Enduro World Championship. The bike is competing in the E2 class and is based on a Husqvarna chassis and a BMW Motorrad four-stroke, 450cc engine.
The idea behind the prototype is to pool the experience and resources of Husqvarna and BMW which will now compete in the E2 class under the name of BMW Husqvarna Motorsport. The debut on the weekend follows extensive testing and was ridden by Marko Tarkkala and Andreas Lettenbichler (after an injury to leading rider Juha Salminen).
The testing phase has concluded and while the project was to have seen the two companies competing under the combined banner since the beginning of the season, there have been a few set-backs. The aim is now to keep the BMW G 450 X-based prototype in competition and hopefully come away with some victories, as well.
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BMW Motorrad 2010 price list
BMW Motorrad has released an updated price list of its 2010 BMW model range, including prices for the R 1200 RT and R 1200 GS models. The prices are relative to the German market, and include all taxes, with delivery and ABS optional extras excluded. The models marked with an asterisk include ABS as a standard feature. Prices listed after the jump.
BMW Concept 6 to be produced: video close-up
The BMW Concept 6 presented at this year’s EICMA can be seen in this video, which shows the in-line six cylinder engine technology on the motorcycle. I’ll admit I wasn’t at first convinced by the “it’s only slightly wider than a classic four-cylinder”, but seeing the video, it isn’t, in fact an enormous monstrosity. The front of the bike is obviously bulky but a smooth fairing and some great colours make it look slimmer than what it actuall is, and if you like it then you’re probably into the futuristic look anyway.
BMW’s aim has not been to fit just any straight six onto a motorcycle, but to fit one that wouldn’t be too wide or too long, depending on which way you assembled it. BMW is so convinced that this will be a market winner, that it will go into production, first as a luxury touring model. For more details, see the full press release after the jump.
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BMW Motorrad history video
BMW Motorrad has produced this fabulous video to celebrate 80 years of BMW motorcycle history. The high quality production video shows the first design, back in 1922, and then follows some of BMW’s iconic models, including examples from 1960, 1973 and more modern examples. Check out the video for other snippets of footage and BMW Motorrad design.
Source | BMW Italia
BMW Motorrad Days 2009 pics
The 2009 edition of BMW Motorrad Days at Garmisch-Partenkirchen was a success with more than 30,000 visitors from 30 countries attending the event. Official BMW SBK riders Troy Corser and Ruben Xaus made an appearance, and in the Stunt area presented the BMW S1000RR road bike.
Talking of actual stunts, champion Chris Pfeiffer left more than one spectator speechless in a show with his F800R, and a mountain bike acrobatics show featured Igor Obu and Andreas Schuster (who ever said you could do THAT with a bicycle?).
Motard and Enduro shows also took place, along with track trials of the current BMW Motorrad range, which took in the picturesque town. For BMW car fans, the X3, X5 and X6 were present with some opportunity to try out extreme driving with this range of luxury SUVs.
BMW R 1200 GS Alpine White Version
BMW Motorrad has developed this new R 1200 GS Alpine White Version to celebrate 500,000 GS units produced. 300 models of the special version will be made, after the last GS was produced on May 12th.
The R 1200 GS has been a successful model for BMW with over 35,000 units sold around the world in 2008 across both the R 1200 GS and the GS Adventure. The special Alpine White version will have a new colour, as the name suggests, with black spoke wheels, wider mudguard, black spoiler, bronzed windshield and black and grey seat.
The new seat can be adjusted to modify the height between 870 and 890 mm, slightly higher than the standard version, though a lower seat is also available at 820 mm. Post-production suspension kit can be purchased to further lower the bike to 790 mm.
Steve Martin to replace Troy Corser
Troy Corser will be another rider that will miss the Kyalami round of the World Superbike Championship.
During Race 1 at Monza, Corser was one of the several riders involved in the horrific pile-up. Hit by another rider, the Aussie crashed and while down another crashed bike struck the back of his neck and smashed his helmet. He struggled to his feet and staggered off the track and collapsed, winded and out of breath. The marshals put him on a stretcher and took him to the ambulance, but after recovering his breath he got to his feet and walked back to the pits. He was battered and bruised, but decided to take part in the restart.
On the first lap of the restart, he crashed at the Parabolica, but fortunately came out with no serious injury except a sore arm and a little daziness, but decided not to start Race 2.
BMW have advised him to avoid competing in South Africa due to the short gap between races and have called up test rider Steve Martin to take his place alongside Ruben Xaus.
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