Round Four of the 2012 MotoGP season lifts off this weekend in northern France at historic Le Mans, where they've been racing one thing or another for over 90 years.

Introduced in 2007 as a replacement for the outgoing V Star 1100, the V Star 1300 standard and Tourer enter their sixth year in production.

Drama and racing are synonymous, and last weekend's West Coast Moto Jam at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California, delivered both.

We're hard at work conducting our test of the exotic literbikes: Aprilia RSV4 R APRC, BMW S1000RR and Ducati 1199 Panigale S. We're not finished yet, but here's our first impressions about each bike after romping on them at the fantastic Thunderhill.

With fanfare akin to a movie premiere, Brammo finally took the wraps off its long awaited production-level Empulse and Empulse R models in Hollywood, Calif.