Colin Fraser

“Thankfully, I think our preparation is going well,” starts Ben Young, who was worried that the break between Bridgestone CSBK round four at Atlantic Motorsport Park and next week’s annual National blow-out at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park would not allow him to catch up from all his recent Japanese travels. Testing for the 48th annual...

Mounted on a Sehl-built Rotax 600 cc framer, Don Taylor scored his second National victory of the year in round four Flat Track Canada action at the Dresden Fairgrounds on Saturday evening, July 27. The Port Colbourne-based veteran fought to the front in an entertaining event that featured several key battles. The half mile horse...

The trip west for the third round of the Bridgestone CSBK Series and the opening two races of the MiniGP Nationals was always going to be entertaining and feature any number of rising stars that confirm the strong potential offered by young Canadian competitors. However, it wasn’t just the smaller bikes and racers that pointed...

Just over 44 years ago, many of Canada’s top motorcycle racers were headed to Edmonton – just as they are today. The 1980 event at the long-gone circuit north of the city, Edmonton International Raceway, is considered the start of the Canada’s modern national Superbike championship. That track closed months later, and the Alberta contingent...

At many of the races on the CSBK Championship national tour, the post GP Bikes Podium features a special award from the FAST Riding School. The FAST “big cheque” goes to the hard charger from the just-finished national, in the same way that viewers vote for “Driver of the Day” during Formula One auto video...

George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, was set in a near future when events and circumstances had gone far beyond anyone’s current day experience or expectations. For the Canadian road racing community, 1984 was a competition season where the evolution of the sport was established, but the trends were by no means as clear as they...

Inside Motorcycles' Colin Fraser was on hand in Austin this weekend taking in all the action in MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3. Here is a look at some of the images from Sunday's on track entertainment.

Ever wonder what the view is like from track side at a MotoGP race? IM's Colin Fraser provides the answer with these images captured during Saturday Sprint Race action at the GP of the Americas at COTA in Austin Texas. Be sure to check back at www.insidemotorcycles.com for Colin's complete coverage of the 2024 GP...

The first on-track activity for the Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americans in Austin, Texas, involved action at the venue’s parking lot Go-Kart track for MiniGP Ohvale racers. The focus was on the new Ohvale American importer, former MotoGP star John Hopkins. The American ace has always taken an interest in the smaller racers,...

I first met John Owens in the infield at Daytona International Speedway during Bike Week practice in 1979. I guessed John was from the U.K., given his fair complexion and impending sun burn – back in those days, all the visitors from the U.K. and Europe seemed determined to get a painful over-tan ASAP, to...

We caught up with Ben Young while the three-time Canadian Superbike Championship was on his way to the airport, scheduled to participate in a Blackfoot Cycle BMW launch event in Calgary that evening. Mostly recovered from two hours straight of racing a motorcycle in Florida last weekend, the Collingwood-based Young was looking forward to meet...

This year’s Daytona 200 reminded me of “back in the day,” in a number of ways. The field was deeper, stronger, and faster than it has been since the very start of the “tame Daytona” era when the old AMA switched to Formula Xtreme (600 cc Superbikes) way back in 2005, when Miguel Duhamel won...