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Fancy a slice of 1980s Yamaha 500GP action?
By Visordown News on 28/06/2010 11:58:54
How badly do we want this two-stroke 500cc beauty?
LIVE OUT your childhood 500GP fantasies with this achingly beautiful 1981 Yamaha TZ500H racer.Fresh from a full restoration completed by former top 500 GP mechanic Nigel Everett, the 498cc inline four has been finished in classic Kenny Roberts black
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Suzuka 1991 500 GP - nail-biting last lap
By mark forsyth on 22/08/2011 13:25:28
Gettin' kinda squirrelly
It's little wonder that this era of GP rider ended up smashed to bits. An era when TC was not PC.But is it just because these 500cc two-strokes were so savage, so hard to tame and so dangerous that led to racing of this standard or was it just the immense depth of talent around a...
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Freddie Spencer's '85 Honda NSR500 GP bike gallery
By Ben Cope on 18/06/2009 16:25:51
Honda's legendary GP500 won 8 out of 12 rounds of the World Championship, ridden by fast Freddie Spencer
1985 Honda NSR500 ... click pic to see galleryGP machines don't get much sexier than this Honda NSR500 from 1985.Winner of 8 out of 12 rounds in the 1985 500cc World Championship, the Honda NSR500 won both the Manufacturers' and Riders' Championships. Ridden by Freddie Spencer, t...
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Max to Supermax
By Gordon Ritchie on 28/03/2002 10:49:25
Four years into his 500GP career, and Max Biaggi still hasn't won the ultimate prize the sport can offer. In a couple of years, he lost to riders he is rated higher than by most. When will Max become more than just another factor?
classes scoot around.Max denies it. He denies a fair few things really, as the following interview explains. And he is still firm believer in Max Biaggi, even if Max has, at best, enjoyed in the bittersweet status of second most successful 500GP rider
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Schwantz to appear at Isle of Man TT 2007?
By Visordown News on 20/12/2006 01:50:37
500GP legend heading to the 2007 TT
500GP LEGEND Kevin Schwantz will be at the 2007 Isle of Man TT, thanks to Suzuki GB. Schwantz, the famous number 34, won the 1993 500cc Grand Prix Championship and has been Suzuki's link to their racing heritage ever since. Schwantz will be a part
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Vintage Laguna: Roberts vs Mamola
By Robin Goodwin on 22/07/2011 10:20:27
From the days when domestic series featured 500GP bikes
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Doohan: 'It's going to be tough for Rossi'
By Visordown News on 14/04/2011 09:08:21
Five-times 500GP champion Mick Doohan gives his thoughts on Rossi and the resurgence of Honda
MICK Doohan has gone on record with Reuters to say that Valentino Rossi will struggle to win another championship after having more than a decade at the top.The five-times 500GP champion Doohan questioned whether Rossi could return to the top
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Back in the day, the All Japan 500cc Championship at Tsukuba
By Niall Mackenzie on 24/06/2011 10:38:56
500 GP bikes may have been scary but I wouldn't have had it any other way.
in Japan during his career. He also won the 1986 San Marino 250cc Grand Prix and qualified on pole for the 1989 500GP at Suzuka.I had performed well in the 500cc GPs that year and although I only finished 6th overall in the World Championship I got to 3rd
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Don Morley's Exposure - August 2008
By Don Morley on 19/12/2008 15:16:44
In 1989 at the Misano 500GP all of the top riders refused to race over safety fears, the first time this had happened.
to move the time of the 500GP race, just to get peak viewing in America whose time zone was completely different.Unfortunately later that day absolutely atrocious storms were forecast, heavy thunderstorms, rain, lightning, the whole works. The track wasn
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Video: Crivillé rides the Honda Moto3
By Visordown News on 10/06/2011 09:10:53
1989 125GP (and 1999 500GP) champion laps the Catalunya circuit on the Honda NSF250R
SKEPTICS may be in the wings for the new Moto3 class but Àlex Crivillé has stepped forward as a supporter of the four-stroke replacement after lapping Catalunya on Honda's entry.Honda's entry for the new regulations was official unveiled last Thursday at Catalunya as the sheet wa...
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