dinsdag 30 september 2008

Site Updates



Several new updates to the site:

- New Upcoming events section on the right
- 100 new pics in the Supermoto Central Gallery (total 500 pics )
- 20 new videos in the Supermoto Central Youtube Channel (total 132 videos)
- New links in the links section

Soon there also will be a wallpaper section with loads of cool Supermoto wallpapers.

International European Supermoto Championship video



International European Supermoto Championship, S1 Prestige in Freiburg.
Watch Jürgen Künzel, Markus Volz and all the other drivers.
Presented by http://www.supermoto-gladiators.de

zondag 28 september 2008

Supermoto drift world record



The "Freestyle Supermoto Crew" sets a Drift World record with the longest drift ever in Motorbike-history! 1,814kms sideways!

vrijdag 26 september 2008

What is Supermoto?

Fox Gear 2009


Fox released there new 2009 gear on their website. Especially the new helmets look really good. Go check out the fox site here

dinsdag 23 september 2008

Gp of Andorra Race Video



Check out the full recap of all the S1 & S2 Supermoto races from the GP of Andorra above.

The championship standing in the sidebar is also updated, as you can see the numbers are very close and the last races of the season will be very exciting!

maandag 22 september 2008

More pics from the GP of Andorra

van den Bosch(S1)
Lazzarini (S1)
Gozzini (S2)
Delepine (S2)
Thomas Chayere (S1)

Source: Youthstream

zondag 21 september 2008

Kawasaki launches street legal 250cc Supermoto


KLX250SF

- Liquid cooled DOHC 250cc 4stroke engine
- Electric start
- Street legal
- 43mm Upside down forks
- Fuel capacity 2 gallons(7.6liter)
- Weight 302 lbs (137kg)
- MSRP $5299

More info here

Chareyre brothers win Grand Prix of Andorra


PAS DE LA CASA (ANDORRA), 21 September 2008 – The maiden SuperMoto World Championship outing at Pas de la Casa in Andorra unveiled to be a great showdown. The Chareyre brothers Thomas and Adrien won the S1 and S2 GP respectively to mark a step stone in the history of the sport. For the first time ever two brothers riding for the same manufacturer and team won a GP each in the same day.
Ivan Lazzarini and Thierry Van Den Bosch rounded off the S1 podium with Davide Gozzini and Gerald Delepine completing the S2 podium.
Bernd Hiemer still leads the S1 Championship from VDB as the battle in between S2 series leader Adrien Chareyre and runner up Davide Gozzini is set to continue at the following round in Busca.
Oliver Pope reinforced his S3 lead by winning this sixth round as Luca D’Addato closed in on Open class leader Heino Meusburger by winning the overall.
S1
Collecting victory in both heats Husqvarna CH Racing’s Thomas Chareyre rounded off a superb weekend as he was even starting from first on the grid after his Superpole success.
Chareyre won his first GP of 2008 ahead of DRC SuperMoto Aprilia Factory team mates Ivan Lazzarini and Thierry Van Den Bosch with the latter struggling to get to grips with the track.
After a first moto hampered by a couple of crashes KTM Italia Miglio’s Bernd Hiemer salvaged his Championship lead courtesy of a fourth place overall ahead of HM Honda Racing Monticelli’s Jerome Giraudo.
Top five overall: 1. Thomas Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), 50 points; 2. Ivan Lazzarini (ITA, Aprilia), 40 p.; 3. Thierry van den Bosch (FRA, Aprilia), 40 p.; 4. Bernd Hiemer (GER, KTM), 36 p.; 5. Jerome Giraudo (FRA, Honda), 32 p.
S1 RACE 1
Chareyre took a great start and led from there to the chequered flag. Early runner up Hiemer crashed a couple of times ending seventh as VDB found himself second after the German’s first crash. Van Den Bosch held on to finish second as Lazzarini could not close the gap ending third eventually. Winstanley was fourth ahead of Giraudo with Rigal ending sixth after a solid start.
Top five: 1. Thomas Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), 19:26.269; ; 2. Thierry van den Bosch (FRA, Aprilia), +0:07.197; 3. Ivan Lazzarini (ITA, Aprilia), +0:11.278; 4. Matthew Winstanley (GBR, KTM), +0:17.643; 5. Jerome Giraudo (FRA, Honda), +0:18.835
S1 RACE 2
A very motivated Hiemer got off to a great start but after three laps Chareyre exploited a mistake of the German to take the lead. Chareyre flew to victory as Hiemer could not catch up ending second. Despite trying a late charge on Hiemer Lazzarini finished third ahead of a distant Van Den Bosch. Giraudo secured another fifth place.
Top five: 1. Thomas Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), 19:17.436; ; 2. Bernd Hiemer (GER, KTM), +0:01.782; 3. Ivan Lazzarini (ITA, Aprilia), +0:03.201; 4. Thierry van den Bosch (FRA, Aprilia), +0:11.537; 5. Jerome Giraudo (FRA, Honda), +0:17.710

S2
Following the disappointment of losing victory in a close opening moto Husqvarna CH Racing’s Adrien Chareyre stormed to victory in heat two wrapping up the overall ahead of first heat winner Davide Gozzini of TM Factory – the duo was level in points.
Courtesy of two third places Husqvarna CH Racing’s Gerald Delepine mounted on the podium in third even though crashes hampered his overall result.
Despite struggling with his injured wrist PMR H2O Aprilia Off Road’s Christian Iddon soldiered on to take fourth overall ahead of a surprising debutant Dominique Poulain.
Attilio Pignotti ended sixth overall after entering an exciting three way battle for third with Iddon and Delepine at heat two.
An injured Luca Minutilli was ninth as his closest Championship rival Massimo Beltrami had to miss the event due to another injury.
Top five: 1. Adrien Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), 47 points; 2. Davide Gozzini (ITA, TM), 47 p.; 3. Gérald Delepine (BEL, Husqvarna), 40 p.; 4. Christian Iddon (GBR, Aprilia), 34 p.; 5. Dominique Poulain (FRA, Husaberg), 32 p.
S2 RACE 1
Holeshotter Gozzini was passed by Chareyre by the end of the opening lap; the duo went on in the race banging bars with a bunch of laps remaining. Gozzini made a successful move on Chareyre who tried to reply by going on the inside of Gozzini at the second sky section. Chareyre stalled the bike losing touch with eventual winner Gozzini and ending second. After an early crash Delepine settled into third ahead of Poulain and Iddon.
Top five: 1. Davide Gozzini (ITA, TM), 19:22.418; ; 2. Adrien Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), +0:05.453; 3. Gérald Delepine (BEL, Husqvarna), +0:36.878; 4. Dominique Poulain (FRA, Husaberg), +0:40.483; 5. Christian Iddon (GBR, Aprilia), +0:44.741
S2 RACE 2
Chareyre started strong in the final heat winning in a dominant style from the start to the flag. Gozzini followed in second without closing the gap as Delepine recovered to third after another crash; the defending Champion starred a three way battle for third with Iddon and Pignotti rounding off the top five after the dogfight.
Top five: 1. Adrien Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), 19:22.828; ; 2. Davide Gozzini (ITA, TM), +0:06.020; 3. Gérald Delepine (BEL, Husqvarna), +0:27.871; 4. Christian Iddon (GBR, Aprilia), +0:28.624; 5. Attilio Pignotti (ITA, KTM), +0:30.071
IN THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS STANDINGS
S1 leader Hiemer lost four points on runner up VDB and Lazzarini with the latter now having a hungry Chareyre at a two point distance.
Top ten: 1. Bernd Hiemer (GER, KTM), 234 points; 2. Thierry van den Bosch (FRA, Aprilia), 220 p.; 3. Ivan Lazzarini (ITA, Aprilia), 198 p.; 4. Thomas Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), 196 p.; 5. Matthew Winstanley (GBR, KTM), 155 p.; 6. Sylvain Bidart (FRA, Husqvarna), 145 p.; 7. Boris Chambon (FRA, TM), 133 p.; 8. Fabio Balducci (ITA, Suzuki), 121 p.; 9. Jerome Giraudo (FRA, Honda), 114 p.; 10. Maxime Testu (FRA, Kawasaki), 105 p.;
Six points still divide S2 Championship leader Chareyre from runner up Gozzini with the duo ending level in points. Delepine built on his third place increasing the advantage over Pignotti as fifth placed Minutilli could increase his advantage over injured six place holder Beltrami.
Top ten: 1. Adrien Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), 275 points; 2. Davide Gozzini (ITA, TM), 269 p.; 3. Gérald Delepine (BEL, Husqvarna), 211 p.; 4. Attilio Pignotti (ITA, KTM), 194 p.; 5. Luca Minutilli (ITA, Aprilia), 180 p.; 6. Massimo Beltrami (ITA, Aprilia), 148 p.; 7. Lorenzo Mariani (ITA, TM), 139 p.; 8. Christian Iddon (GBR, Aprilia), 132 p.; 9. Emanuele Giovanelli (ITA, Husaberg), 128 p.; 10. Paolo Gaspardone (ITA, Husaberg), 119 p.
THE UEM EUROPEAN SUPERMOTO CHAMPIONSHIP
Today’s victory saw Oliver Pope take a step closer to the S3 Title as previous runner up Olivier Scheen dropped down to third in the points after a disqualification in heat one. Taking second on the podium Alessandro Asnicar moved up to second in the Championship.
Topping the overall classification in the Open class was Luca D’Addato who chipped away at the gap from series leader Heino Meusburger. The Italian is just three points away from the Austrian ending a disappointing sixth today as Alberto Dall’Era and Luca De Angelis rounded off the podium.
WHAT’S NEXT
In a couple of weeks the show will go on at Busca for the Grand Prix of Alpi del Mare on October 5.

Source: Youthstream

Chareyre brothers and Husqvarna fastest at day one in Andorra


A beautiful day gave the SuperMoto riders the start to their maiden appearance in Andorra at the Grand Prix Pas de la Casa Grandvalira.
Thomas Chareyre stormed to pole in the S1 class leading Aprilia fellow Superiders Thierry Van Den Bosch and Ivan Lazzarini as red plate holder Bernd Hiemer will also find a spot in tomorrow’s front row.
In S2 Thomas’ older brother Adrien wrapped up the pole being the only S2 Superider lapping under the one minute barrier. Davide Gozzini ended second ahead of Gerald Delepine and Christian Iddon.
Oliver Pope (S3) and Luca D’Addato (Open) took the UEM series’ poles.
S1

Husqvarna CH Racing’s Thomas Chareyre got to grips perfectly with the highly located race track at Pas de la Casa. The Frenchman took pole at mid-session (lap 18) but carried on for further 10 laps to increase the already positive feeling with the course.
DRC SuperMoto Aprilia Factory Team mates Thierry Van Den Bosch and Ivan Lazzarini were second and third quickest respectively as VDB missed the pole by 0.083 seconds.
KTM Italia Miglio’s Bernd Hiemer showed a solid form by taking the fourth quickest spot less than half a second off Chareyre’s pole.
The first four were the only ones to have lapped under the one minute barrier displaying a pace that might leave the crowd breathless with a four way battle for victory tomorrow.
Guillaume Rigal rounded off the top five ahead of French countryman Jerome Giraudo.
Top five: 1. Thomas Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), 0:59.082; 2. Thierry van den Bosch (FRA, Aprilia), +0:00.083; 3. Ivan Lazzarini (ITA, Aprilia), +0:00.272; 4. Bernd Hiemer (GER, KTM), +0:00.449; 5. Guillaume Rigal (FRA, Kawasaki), +0:01.008
S2

Matching his younger brother and team mate’s performance Husqvarna CH Racing’s Adrien Chareyre took today’s pole being the only S2 Superider lapping under the one minute barrier. The Championship leader put himself in the best spot in order to clinch the Superpole and the head of the first row.
Despite trying incredibly hard to beat Chareyre’s record latest GP winner Davide Gozzini of TM Factory Racing ended up in second place as he will restart the chase to Chareyre right from tomorrow’s Superpole.
Other Husqvarna CH Racing’s rider Gerald Delepine was a positive third, the same position that he holds in the points standings being the defending S2 Champion.
PMR H2O Aprilia Off Road’s Christian Iddon made it to a hard fought fourth as the Brit is still feeling pain to his injured wrist – he just came back to the GP scene in Austria.
Lorenzo Mariani rounded off the top five ahead of Attilio Pignotti and Luca Minutilli.
Top five: 1. Adrien Chareyre (FRA, Husqvarna), 0:59.980; 2. Davide Gozzini (ITA, TM), +0:00.266; 3. Gérald Delepine (BEL, Husqvarna), +0:00.787; 4. Christian Iddon (GBR, Aprilia), +0:00.857; 5. Lorenzo Mariani (ITA, TM), +0:01.009

Source: Youthstream

vrijdag 19 september 2008

DRZ jumping in San Fransisco



That's a pretty insane jump...

BMW G450X Supermoto


Spotted at Spa-Franchorchamps. A BMW G450x converted to Supermoto. It was being tested by belgian riders Mark Fraikin and Eddy Seel. Hopefully we'll see more BMW's in Supermoto in the future. The more brands the better.

Via Supermotard.nl

woensdag 17 september 2008

Preview Grand Prix of Andorra


For round six of the 2008 season SuperMoto goes to Pas de la Casa in Andorra to carry on the battle for the S1, S2, S3 and Open class titles.
Bernd Hiemer tops the S1 standings from Thierry Van Den Bosch and an upcoming Ivan Lazzarini, even though the latter is 40 points adrift.
Adrien Chareyre leads a close Davide Gozzini in the S2 Championship while third placed Gerald Delepine is more than 50 points behind the pair.
Leading the UEM series are Oliver Pope (S3) and Heino Meusburger (Open).

S1
Adding one more heat win to his account in Greinbach DRC SuperMoto Aprilia Factory’s Ivan Lazzarini continues to be on his winning form since Valladolid after a poor start to the 2008 campaign. With the S1 GP curtailed to one single moto after the accident in heat two the Lazza wrapped up the GP overall as well but he is exactly 40 points behind leader Hiemer.
KTM Italia Miglio’s Bernd Hiemer leads the S1 standings with a solid advantage over third placed Lazzarini but other DRC SuperMoto Aprilia Factory Superider and three time World Champion Thierry Van Den Bosch is just 18 points adrift as he failed to make up ground on the German due to a start crash at the latest event.
Despite not having taken victories as the pair following him in the Championship did, Hiemer is still the only Superider to have mounted on the podium at each round showing an incredible consistency.
Sitting fourth in the standings is Husqvarna CH Racing’s Thomas Chareyre who is followed from close by Robinsons KTM UK’s Matthew Winstanley, TM Factory’s Boris Chambon and Cross 2R Husqvarna’s Sylvain Bidart taking podium at Greinbach.
Rounding off the top five overall in Austria was a confidence booster for GP winner Fabio Balducci and 2004 World Champion Jerome Giraudo as they are eighth and tenth in the standings respectively.

S2
At the latest round in Greinbach TM Factory’s Davide Gozzini could only gain one point on series leader Adrien Chareyre of Husqvarna CH Racing as it was a close battle for victory in between the two.
Gozzini won from Chareyre and other Husqvarna CH Racing Superider Gerald Delepine even though the Italian faded to third after a promising start in heat two. Delepine won the final heat –the first of the season- to capitalize on his third place in the Championship.
The defending S2 Champion is more than 50 points away from the leading duo meaning that he must try his hardest if he still wants to defend the crown from the two youngsters.
KTM Italia Miglio’s Attilio Pignotti is fourth in between Delepine and a very close Luca Minutilli of PMR H2O Aprilia Off Road. The latter is definitely the revelation of the year as he started to show a solid form since he received factory support to his twin cylinder SXV 550 from the Italian manufacturer. Ending third in the heats for three times this year including Torino’s first ever top three finish of his career the Italian from Terracina never missed the points zone so far.
After coming back to racing in Austria other PMR H2O Aprilia Off Road Superider Christian Iddon is all set on improving his tenth place in the standings. Ending a close fifth behind Motoracing’s Ales Hlad in Austria was a promising return for Iddo seeking his first season’s podium in Pas de la Casa.

Mauno Hermunen: upcoming finnish talent



Finnish Supermoto rider Mauno Hermunen is young upcoming Supermoto rider that's kicking ass in the German Supermoto Championship. Check out the video above for footage of this upcoming talent.

maandag 15 september 2008

Supermoto Gladiatoren Movie



Another great movie from the German Supermoto Championship by Supermoto-gladiatoren.de

zondag 14 september 2008

Motocross Digital September issue is out!



Motocross Digital is a free online magazine that has a montly issue filled with the latest motocross,enduro and supermoto news. Always a very interesting read. There is a Supermoto news section in the magazine and also several pages with the latest race reports from the AMA Supermoto,Italian Supermoto and World Supermoto championships.

It's absolutely free and definately worth checking out. I'm a big fan of this magazine. You can also download the older issues on the Motocross Digital website.

Go download the September issue of Motocrossdigital here

zaterdag 13 september 2008

Supermoto of Nations teams announced


With the event just around the corner as the battle for the Francesco Zerbi Trophy will take place in Pleven, Bulgaria, on October 12, here is the entry list for the event.

Very surprised to see that Thierry van den Bosch is not riding for France and Bernd Hiemer is not riding for Germany.

vrijdag 12 september 2008

New acerbis headlight



Acerbis has a new headlight in their catalog which looks really nice. It uses two groups of 10 led's together with 2 20V spotlights placed in the center.

More info and movie

Italian Supermoto Championship race 5



Federmoto.tv is the video website of the Italian Motorcycle federation. Loads of videos of the Italian Championships. Supermoto, motocross, enduro and many other types of motorcycle racing.

Above you can view round 5 of the Italian Supermoto Championship.

Have fun watching!

woensdag 10 september 2008

Round 4 XTRM/AMA Supermoto Championship video

The guys at SupermotoRacer magazine posted a very nice video of round 4 of the AMA/XTRM Supermoto Championship. You can find the video here

They also posted a picture gallery with 3 pages of pics. Check out the gallery here

dinsdag 9 september 2008

Yamaha introduces new WR125R & X

Yamaha will look to bolster its sales in the 125 market with the introduction of two new models to line-up alongside the YZF-125-R. The WR125X supermoto and WR125R enduro.

The new motorcycles follow along the same lines as the popular Yamaha YZF-R125 with full-sized chassis designs and the same 124.7cc liquid-cooled four stroke engine.

The new models will give an alternative to the already available WR250X and R with a newly-designed diamond-shaped steel frame and an enduro racing-style tank and seat.

These two motorbikes come with 41mm front forks and a seven-preload-adjustable rear shock.

Both also come with lightweight aluminium wheels, with the WR125R getting the same 21-inch front and 18-inch rear wheels that are fitted to the manufactures WR250F enduro race bike.

Stopping power is bolstered with the WR125X Supermoto getting a 298mm front disc with a floating two-pot calliper while the WR125R Enduro has a slightly bigger 240mm wavy disc at the front with the same floating calliper layout.

Both have a single disc and single calliper setup for the rear braking system.

And to complete the appeal, both machines come with a LCD display.

The WR125X will come in Racing Blue and Sports White, while the WR125R will be available in Racing Blue and Yamaha Black.

More pics here

Darryl Atkins Aprilia interview



More supermoto videos can be found at the Supermoto Central Youtube Channel

maandag 8 september 2008

AMA XTRM Supermoto Championship at Miller Utah

450/Premier

The KTM boys took both heat races just a little bit ago here at Miller. Heat race #1 was Chris Fillmore who pulled out a gap on Jeff Ward and Cassidy Anderson in the 4lap Heat. Anderson was able to work his way past Ward on the second lap and closed in on the top time getter in practice earlier in the day, Fillmore, but it was the HMC/KTM rider that got the win and the pole for the main.

Heat race #2 featured the other member of the KTM squad, Troy Herfoss who pulled a good size gap on Aprilia's Ben Carlson right off the start who in turn was in front of a hot battle featuring first, Dalton Dimick of the XXX Racing Fuels team, then Yamaha's Mark Burkhart sandwiched in between the teammate of Dimick, Robbie Horton. Burkhart was able to work his way past Dimick on the second lap and put his head down to close the gap to Herfoss but the man in Orange was not to be headed. Final was Herfoss, Burkhart, Carlson, Dimick, Horton. Should be some great action come Main event time!

250/Lites

In Heat #1 it was Matt Abbott was taking the holeshot followed by Casey Yarrow and then Lites points leader, Brandon Currie. On the second lap Currie made a pass on Abbott in the second dirt section and started to pull away. Behind Abbott was the battle featuring Johnny Lewis, Casey Yarrow, Andrew Hyder and Danny Casey. The four of these combatants battled through the 4lap event and the final order was Currie, Abbott, Lewis, Yarrow, Casey.

Heat Race #2 was a barn burner with Matt Burton leading Robert Loire, David Pingree and rookie Supermoto rider/Gray Davenport. The race would be a battle royale as Pingree and Davenport caught up to Burton and they all were in a conga line as they came across start finish for the last time.......Matt Burton, Davenport then Pingree all separated by less than a second.

Unlimited

Race #1 was a Darryl Atkins runaway with the fastest man in practice showing the way from start to finish over the rest of the field. Race #2 saw Steve Drew get the win over Josh Chisum and Micky Dymond rounding out the top three.

Source: SupermotoOnline

Full results

zondag 7 september 2008

Free supermoto movie for download

Belgian Supermoto racer Skully25 made a very nice supermoto movie a year ago which he sold on dvd. But now he is offering the complete movie as a free download!

The movie is an hour long and contains everything from racing to street riding. Here's what the creator had to say about it:

About a year ago I started my own video project which was supposed to be a compilation of all the best footage I shot during the 3 years I've been riding my bike. by large request I ended up making that video into a DVD. it contains footage of our ride-outs, trackdays and races (including the well known superbiker race at mettet)

I'm now putting up the complete video up for download. it's a low resolution version of the original to keep filesize down but it still contains all the footage.

info about the vid:
file format: .MP4 (viewable in quicktime, VLC or WMP with the right plug-ins)
filesize: aprox 740 mb
runtime: 58 minutes

download link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0BI5MJXC
(if site says "file not available" refresh page)

keep in mind this is a hobby project, it's not like ryan moore's X-dream film or trachy's instructional dvd when you look at quality or editing, I wish I was that good or had the resources to make something like that I made the whole video in Imovie on my mac and burned all the copies of the dvd on my own computer with the sole intention of providing my friends and fellow riders with some amusement. now I wanted to go a little further and make it available to others as well.

enjoy!

vrijdag 5 september 2008

2009 Honda CRF450



As you know of might not know. The first info and pics of the 2009 Honda CRF450 have been released. The bike is almost totally new and looks like a very fast package. Ideal for Supermoto ofcourse. The CRF450's have been kicking ass in the AMA supermoto championship the previous years but in Europe you can hardly find them at the front. Kinda weird actually.

Well I felt inspired and made a special Supermoto Central version of the 2009 CRF450.

donderdag 4 september 2008

2009 GasGas Supermoto models

GASGAS SM 515
GASGAS SM 450

GASGAS SM Halley 450

GASGAS SM Halley 125

The Spanish brand GASGAS have released the pics and info of their 2009 Supermoto models. I must say they did a great job. Esspecially the SM450 and 515 are beautiful. The Halley versions look a bit more street friendly with the rear passegner pegs and indicators. The Halley 450 also has 41mm forks instead of the 48mm forks on the SM450. I must admit the forks look a bit thin without the protectors on them. The bikes have a fuel injected four stroke engined which produces about 50hp. I hope we will see the SM450 or 515 in the S1 and S2 Supermoto classes next year.

There also is a 125cc two stroke Supermoto in the GASGAS lineup. A very nice bike aimed at the license restricted 17 year olds in the south european countries and the UK. Competition for Aprilia's SX125 and Husqvarna's SM125.

More info

thanks to Hellforleather

woensdag 3 september 2008

XTRM / AMA Supermoto round 1



Full report of XTRM / AMA Supermoto round 1. 30 minutes full of races,interviews and a cool feature on the HMC KTM. This video is definately worth watching.

Please be patient while the video loads.

maandag 1 september 2008

New! KTM 990 Supermoto R

KTM expands their Supermoto line with the KTM SM990 „R “. Based on the 2008 KTM 990 Supermoto the Supermoto R has a new color scheme with white plastics and an orange powdercoated frame. Other changes are a black swingarm and a smaller tank.

Any changes on the engine and suspension are unknown. The bike will be presented to the public at the 2008 EICMA bike show in Milan coming november.

VISIT THE NEW SUPERMOTO CENTRAL WEBSITE AT WWW.SUPERMOTO-CENTRAL.COM

Benelli BX Supermoto


Spotted at the paddock of World Supermoto Championship in Olbia was the new Benelli BX Supermoto. We are still waiting for the cross (on the market in October) and enduro (December), versions but Benelli already has plans for a Supermoto version. The bike on the pics is a BX in street version, but rumours go around that Benelli want to enter the World Supermoto Championship S1 in 2009 with a 450 version. The engine, which uses titanium valves to rev to 11,000rpm — impossibly high for a single — and in 449cc form makes 52bhp. It uses a single-piece cast crankcase to make it incredibly compact. It also has a right-side chain and left-side kickstart.

But it's the chassis that really differs from the norm. A single cradle made from forged, cast and extruded elements, the top portion on both sides features a carbon strut that completes the top of the cradle. This strut is removable and replaceable with ones of different thicknesses, allowing riders to tune the chassis for stiffness to suit individual riding styles or tracks.

The release of a Supermoto version is not certain but if all goes well the BX Supermoto should be on the market at the end of 2009.

More pics