Supermoto Central launches new site!

If you are visiting this site at supermotocentral.blogspot.com please update your bookmarks to www.supermoto-central.com.

New Supermoto Central site at http://www.supermoto-central.com

One armed Supermoto rider

Here's a video of Hungarian rider Baloo riding his KTM 560 smr with Rekluse Pro. What's so special about this you might ask? Well Baloo only has one arm and his other arm is prosthetic. Major respect for a man who keeps doing what he loves when the odds are against him.

Check out his website here

World Supermoto Championship comes to Britain in 2009

Youthstream released the provisional calender for 2009 and it's a good thing to see the FIM Supermoto Championship will also race in Britain! On 30 May (Saturday) the best supermoto riders of the world will race at Mallory Park

Here's the provisional calendar:

DATE	GRAND PRIX	VENUE
19 April	ITALY	Viterbo
24 May	SPAIN	tba
30 May (Saturday)	GREAT BRITAIN	Mallory Park
14 June	ANDORRA	Pas de la Casa
12 July	AUSTRIA	Greinbach
06 September	ALPI DEL MARE	Busca
27 September	TBA	Tba
03 October (Saturday)	EUROPE	Franciacorta
11 October	GREECE	Tba
18 October - FIM SuperMoto of Nations - BULGARIA - Pleven

Mettet Superbiker 2008 movie

Another great production by Skully from Belgium. High quality version here

Mettet Superbiker pics

Start of one of the qualifying races

Starbiker winner Cassidy Anderson

Darryl Atkins on his Aprilia SXV

Joshua Coppins finished 7th in the Starbiker race

Joel Smets(DNF) on the BMW X450 vs Stefan Everts (7th in the Superbiker)on the KTM 450SMR

The first pics of the Mettet Superbiker are popping up around the web, first the MXworld.be gallery really really nice pics in this gallery. With captions so you know who you are looking at. The pics from above are some of the best from the MXworld.be gallery.

Also a big 37 page gallery by Marc Hilger of Automobilsport.com here

MXphotos.be also has a very nice gallery

And last the pics of Belgian Supermoto photographer Wim Moons (aka theMonkey). He has a huge gallery of 4163 pics of the 3 Mettet Superbiker days.

Grand Prix of Greece Highlights

Cassidy Anderson wins Metter Superbiker

Cassidy Anderson is the winner of the 2008 Mettet Superbiker. Following 5 seconds behind was German S2 Champion Mauno Hermunen from Finland.

Former MX legend Mickael Pichon finished 3rd 1 sec behind Hermunen. Pichon also won the Starbiker race of the day.

Starbiker (Star class)

1. Mickeal Pichon (France)
2. Frederic Bolley (France)
3. Stefan Everts (Belgium)
4. Darryl Atkins (New Zealand)
5. Micky Dymond (USA)

Full results

Superbiker (Bikers,Prestige and Star classes)

1. Cassidy Anderson (USA)
2. Mauno Hermunen (Finland)
3. Mickael Pichon (France)
4. Juergen Kuenzel (Germany)
5. Eric Delannoy (Belgium)

Full results

Stay tuned for more reports, pics and videos!