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CSBK Announces Tentative 2025 Schedule

Grandstand — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 23:29:53 +0000

The provisional 2024 Canadian Superbike race schedule is out, and there are some switches to the usual schedule—some surprising changes. Next year’s schedule will look a lot different from this year, starting with the absence of Grand Bend. There are only five race weekends in the year, and Grand Bend isn’t included. Instead, the series opens at Shannonville, like it usually does, in mid-May…

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Bimota Vs. World Superbike: Enter The KB998

Grandstand — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 00:19:08 +0000

Goodbye, Kawasaki. Hello, Bimota! As planned and announced earlier this year, Team Green is backing out of World Superbike, with their Italian friends at Bimota taking over their WSB factory effort—and now we see their first bike. If you’re wondering how this happened in the first place, remember that Kawasaki now owns a big chunk of Bimota and the Italian boutique bike firm uses their engines…

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New Deal With Dorna Sees FIM Sign Away MotoGP Broadcasts Until 2060

Grandstand — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:17:08 +0000

Want to watch World Superbike, or MotoGP? For the foreseeable future, Dorna Sports will continue to hold promotional rights for both these international roadracing series, thanks to a new deal with the FIM. The FIM is the world’s largest certifier of motorcycle racing. Its website says “FIM is the supreme and sole international authority empowered to control international motorcycling events…

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CSBK 2024: The Season Wraps Up In Shannonville

Grandstand — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 11:13:33 +0000

When it all came down to the finish, there were no real upsets at Shannonville’s Canadian Superbike finale—in the Pro categories, even the final races of the season went to the champs. In Pro Superbike, Alex Dumas nearly won the final race of the season on Sunday afternoon, with series champ Ben Young (who’d already clinched his title) in third on lap one after starting on pole.

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Alpinestars Brings Airbag Safety To Motocross

CMG Staff — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:22:12 +0000

What’s safer than landing on a cushion of air? How about not crashing at all? It’s too bad that we can’t always stay upright on our bikes as intended, but at least airbag suit technology is advancing very rapidly these days. The latest development is a new airbag vest from Alpinestars, intended to protect motocross racers. If you think about it, this must have been a very difficult design to put…

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Wildcards Could Blow CSBK Open At CTMP This Weekend

Grandstand — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 13:10:23 +0000

It’s the pinnacle of Canadian Superbike racing—the annual visit to Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville. The Track Formerly Known As Mosport always hosts the hottest race weekend of the season for two reasons: First, the Pro Superbike series hosts a tripleheader, not the usual doubleheader. Second, it attracts more wildcard talent than any other race. That’s true again this year…

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Mid-Summer Canadian Superbike Catch-Up

Grandstand — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:26:38 +0000

The mid-summer visit to Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia’s Atlantic Motorsport Park is over. So what’s going on in CSBK? Most years, the championships are more-or-less determined at this point, and it looks like that might be the case again this season. In fact, one race series is already settled. In the new Ninja ZX-4RR spec series, Mack Weil has clinched the championship in the Pro class.

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Mixed Weather, Mixed Winners at CSBK Shubenacadie

Grandstand — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:02:36 +0000

After the 2023 CSBK race at Shubenacadie were rained out, and the race teams stranded at the track when a bridge to the facility washed away, the series was hoping for better times in 2024. Despite disastrous rains elsewhere in Nova Scotia, the doubleheader did run this weekend, and it was indeed fine competition. In Pro Superbike’s first race on Saturday, Sam Guerin won, thanks to a gamble.

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