Raymond Roche News Today

The Yamaha Racing Heritage Club was one of the star attractions at the Sunday Ride Classic in Le Castellet

This 2003 Ducati GP3 motorcycle, raced in that season’s MotoGP series by Troy Bayliss, is being auctioned through Bonhams.

The roads around Monmouth are quiet but have their attractions; they cut through valleys and woods, past castles and churches. My host, soignee interior designer Neil McLachlan, explains that this part of the world is a well-kept secret, popular with minor gentry and Londoners in the know but protected from the crowds that flush in and

Phil Aynsley looks at the history leading to the RS500RF, including the Bathurst debut of the RS500 by Andrew Johnson, and a pictorial featuring the 1988 Honda RS500RF raced by Swede Niggi Schmashman

No other manufacturer comes close in any motorcycle racing series.

You ought to watch out, because this sexy thing wants to flirt with your bank account, wallet and piggybank.

MotoGP: Today there are few French riders in top-level motorcycle racing, but in the years between the ‘80s and ‘90s there were a lot …and they won a lot, starting with Patrick, king of the Formula 750 category.

Not only does 2021 mark the 50th anniversary of the very first production Ducati L-twin – the 1971 GT750 – it also sadly signifies another nail in the coffin for the desmo V-twin.  The arrival of the new, cam-driven Multistrada V4 and the 2018 switch from V-twin to V4 power for the Panigale family means the engine that not only characterised modern Ducati but also dominated a generation of motorcycle sport is on borrowed time. The desmo V-twin, after all, has been at the heart of every D...

The 1987 running of the World GP Championships was fought on 500cc two-stroke machines – per the seller, this is the steed of Raymond Roche, who placed 13th overall on the #8 of Team Cagiva – Alstare (Bastos). This is the C587 variant of Cagiva’s GP500, a bike that was also campaigned by legends such as Eddie Lawson, Randy Mamola, and Doug Chandler. The 587 featured a new engine with a dramatic reduction in angle between the cylinders of the V-4 (from 90 down to 56) – peak power was 145...