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worldsbk.com. Current season. Superbike World Championship (also known as WorldSBK, SBK, World Superbike, WSB, or WSBK) is a silhouette road racing series based on heavily modified production sports motorcycles. The championship was founded in 1988. The Superbike World Championship consists of a series of rounds held on permanent racing facilities.
The Supersport World Championship, abbreviated to WorldSSP, is a motorcycle racing competition on hard-surfaced circuits, based on mid-sized sports motorcycles. Competition machines were originally based on production-based motorcycles with 600 cc to 955 cc engines, depending on the number of cylinders. After trials in UK national series ...
Three Days of De Panne, Belgium. Giro del Trentino, Italy (2.HC since 2011) Tour of Turkey, Turkey (2.HC since 2010) Four Days of Dunkirk, France. Tour of California, United States. Tour of Norway, Norway. Tour of Belgium, Belgium. Tour de Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Tour of Qinghai Lake, People's Republic of China.
The UCI Road World Championships Elite Men's Road Race is a one-day event for professional cyclists that takes place annually. The winner is considered the World Cycling Champion (or World Road Cycling Champion) and earns the right to wear the Rainbow Jersey for a full year in road race or stage events. The event is a single 'mass start' road ...
Fred Rompelberg from Maastricht, Netherlands was the holder of the motor-paced speed world record cycling with 268.831 km/h (167.044 mph) from 1995 to 2018. [31] He used a special bicycle behind a dragster of the Strasburg Drag Racing Team at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
The first recognised world championship was held in Chicago in 1893, with track races at one mile, 10 kilometres, and a 100 km race in which riders were paced by tandems of up to six riders. [2] An American, Arthur Augustus Zimmerman, won the mile and 10 km races and a South African, Mentjes, won the 100 km.
The first professional world championship took place in July 1927 at the Nürburgring in Germany where Italian Alfredo Binda won the professional men's race and Belgian Jean Aerts won the men's amateur race. The women's road race was introduced in 1958. [1] A men's team time trial, contested by national teams, was introduced in 1962.
Howard Grotts (USA) Matthew Beers (RSA) Riders during the 2009 Absa Cape Epic. The Absa Cape Epic or the Cape Epic, founded by Kevin Vermaak is an annual mountain bike stage race held in the Western Cape, South Africa. First staged in 2004, it has been accredited as hors catégorie (beyond categorization) by the Union Cycliste Internationale.