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Red Torpedo is delighted to announce that we've signed five times Grand National Flat Track champion, X Games gold medalist and 2017 AMA Flat Track twins champion Jared Mees as a new brand ambassador.  This is Red Torpedo's first excursion into the world of flat track, or dirt track, racing and we...

We've headed over to Daytona, Florida USA for the 77th Daytona Bike Week from 9th-18th March. Along with the Sturgis Rally held annually in South Dakota, Daytona's one of the USA's "big two" motorcycle shows each drawing an estimated 0.5m visitors. We'll be trading our range of premium quality gear for bike...

Last week, 23 times Isle of Man TT winner John McGuinness lit up the road racing world with the announcement that he had signed a deal with Norton - one of the most famous names in motorcycle racing and in the history of the TT. The Morecambe based legend will...

So, the clocks have officially gone back to full-on "Seasonal Affective Disorder time" and there's still around 200 days to go for road racing "adrenaline junkies" to count down until the annual Isle of Man TT "fix."  But no need to descend into terminal decline just yet. There's still one...

Two of the best known names in the world of motorcycle racing, Guy Martin and David Knight MBE, joined forces to race in a three hour quad bike race on a Polaris 1000cc machine at the UK's biggest and toughest off-road event - the Weston Beach Races in Weston-super-Mare. The...

Check out this video from our Continental Run, shot over four days featuring myself, Conrod Cummins and a  bunch of guys from the USA and Europe with one thing in common – the love of riding motorcycles. The route took us  from the Glemseck 101 event near Stuttgart in Germany...

With the plethora of portmanteaus now in our midst - think "Brexit," "Supercross," or, indeed, "blog," one of the most ubiquitous amongst all the famous marques of British motorbike must be the Triton - a real stalwart of the cafe racer scene. British Cafe Racer Culture Following the end of...

As it enters its fourth year, the popularity of the Isle of Man Festival of Motorcycling - a fortnight's binge of classic and modern motorcycles consisting of the Manx GP,  the Classic TT, the Vintage Motorcycle Club's Festival of Jurby / Club Rally and the Classic and Two Day off road...

The 63rd Ulster Grand Prix, the final international road race of the season, always attracts a huge crowd of dedicated and knowledgeable fans to the superfast 7.4 mile Dundrod Circuit located just outside Belfast, NI. Practice sessions get underway on Wednesday 10th August followed by the Dundrod 150 National races (six feature...

The home of between the hedges, real road racing on closed public roads is Northern Ireland and this week the 86th North West 200 gets underway amid forecasts of a mini heatwave. And about time too! The North West is the first International road race of the year and Ireland’s largest...

On Easter Monday, motorcycle road racer, truck fitter, speed addict and all round good bloke Guy Martin will attempt to conquer what he describes as “the biggest thing we’ve ever done:” to set a new world speed record for the Wall of Death feat – and it’s to be broadcast on live television!

Twenty-three times Isle of Man TT winner John McGuinness will shortly kick-start his 2016 racing season on board the same line-up of machinery that he rode last year: the Honda HRC Superbike for the road race Internationals, the Jackson Racing Superstock ‘Blade for his World Endurance Championship duties (and their CBR600 for Supersport road races), his own Superstock bike with EMC2 backing on the roads and the Honda Shinden Mugen electric bike for TT Zero.  

The 75th annual Daytona Bike Week, one of the USA’s “big two” bike shows attracting around 0.5m visitors each, is held during March and this year Red Torpedo will be retailing leisure wear for bike fanatics and petrol heads alongside our good friends at Ace Café USA. It’s not the first...

Red Torpedo is delighted to announce that we’re working with TAS Racing again in 2016 continuing our sponsorship of the Tyco BMW Motorrad  team. This is our sixth year with Moneymore based TAS Racing run by father and son Hector and Phillip Neill. For the past 16 years, they’ve run...

Johnny Rea has become Northern Ireland’s first motorcycle world champ since Joey Dunlop’s F1 championship and Brian Reid’s double TT F2 titles in 1986 – and he achieved it two rounds before the end of the WSBK season! In his post race celebrations in Jerez, Rea paid tribute to Reid and Dunlop by wearing their helmets. In Joey’s case, it was his actual helmet from 1986 that his son Gary had sent JR – the families are that well connected.

 

 

Of the open air café racer festivals held in Europe – including Wheels and Waves (Biarritz) and the Montlhery Café Racer Festival (Paris), The Glemseck 101 Café Racer Sprint can probably claim to being Europe’s premier event. Every year, on the first weekend in September, in excess of 40,000 fans...

When we first took a gander at the Barbour-Triumph Brit 1 Bonneville collaboration recently displayed at Bike Shed IV we had a sneaking suspicion that it might be another custom build by the mighty Spirit of the 70s lads down in Sevenoaks, Kent. Or looking a little further afield –...

As the Superbikes line up at this year’s TT to blast off down Glenclutchery road, the Norton SG4 piloted by two times TT winner Cameron Donald is guaranteed to turn a few heads. It’s a stunning looking piece of kit and makes the most thunderous, earth shattering noise from its...

Guy had driven down to Almeria in Southern Spain in his Transit van – (kipping in it as well) to link up with team mate William Dunlop and the Tyco BMW squad of Tommy Bridewell, Michael Laverty and Alistair Seeley (Superstock). Both the roads specialists tested the stock bike and...