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After extending Fabio Quartararo’s contract with Yamaha and making him (reportedly) the highest paid rider in MotoGP at 12 million Euro per year, Yamaha has been desperate to line-up four Yamaha M1’s each race, rather than the current two.
If your bike has a quick-shifter, you likely would not want to go back to using a hand-operated clutch once moving. Will the new generation of automatic transmissions have a similar impact on rider preferences in the future? Honda, BMW and others are introducing new automatic transmissions, with manual options, and now Yamaha has its next generation system, the Yamaha…
Suzuki’s 776cc parallel twin engine introduced a couple of years ago is, by all accounts, a gem. MD had never sampled a bike with this engine until we picked up our V-Strom 800 test unit a couple of months ago.
Left to right, Maverick Viñales, KTM’s Pit Beirer and Nicolas Goyon of Tech 3. If you are wondering who else might have a powerhouse line-up in MotoGP next year, how do these four rider names sound? Pedro Acosta, Brad Binder, Enea Bastianini and Maverick Viñales.
No longer much of a secret, Ducati officially announced earlier today that Marc Marquez will join the Factory team on a two-year contract. He will be a teammate of current champion Pecco Bagnaia, as Enea Bastianini will leave Ducati at the end of this year to join the GASGAS team in 2025.

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