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AMA: Hodgson takes pole at Daytona
By Visordown News on 07/03/2008 09:54:32
Lancashire ace becomes first Britain to take top spot since 1974
Daytona 200 winner, and five-time Daytona 200 champion Miguel Duhamel.Duhamel was looking to join Kenny Roberts as the only rider to have won four straight Daytona 200 By Honda poles.“It went really well,” Duhamel said. “Next time we go testing, I
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Bad Boy No.1: Marco Lucchinelli
By Stuart Barker on 03/12/2010 12:46:40
The coke snorting champ: The story of Crazy Horse, the original Grand Prix rock star
and nine fastest laps, and scored a total of nine podiums. Riding a factory Suzuki RG500 he took the 1981 world championship ahead of the likes of Kenny Roberts, Barry Sheene and Randy Mamola.After his GP career was over, Lucchinelli won the 1987 Daytona
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Kenny Roberts
By Visordown on 27/04/2002 14:39:32
King Kenny Roberts in his own words. During a flying visit to his race factory in Banbury, TWO caught up with Kenny Roberts Snr to find out how he has remained one of the most famous and respected personalities in GP racing.
If there is another person in the world with a wider-reaching influence on motorcycle racing, with greater durability, or more immaculate racing credentials that Kenny Roberts, I'd like to meet him.I met King Kenny for this interview and only
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Lowes wins Race of the Year
By Visordown News on 27/06/2011 13:07:49
Sam Lowes wins Mallory Park race on a Honda CBR600RR against 1,000cc rivals
in the World Supersport Championship, this is something to build on."The next major race at Mallory Park is the VMCC Festival of 1000 bikes headed by King Kenny Roberts, who is making his first appearance on a race bike in the UK since 1984. For a chance
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The Professionals - John Mockett
By Visordown on 01/04/2010 12:31:41
Loved for his Sprocket cartoons and respected for his huge design back catalogue, Mr Mockett’s pen is one of the most influential in British motorcycling
working for Yamaha Amsterdam doing general design work; stuff that ranged from full-sized concept models through to helmet stickers and mad stuff like life-casts of Kenny Roberts. On the back of that I got the job designing the livery for the factory team
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Freddie Spencer: the greatest of all time?
By Tim Skilton on 20/07/2007 19:50:45
Visordown looks back at America's finest
. It was to be the young American's first taste of European competition and he didn't disappoint, winning the first two legs with unbelievable ease on his beastly Yamaha TZ750 two-stroke, showing the way home to Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts - who, unlike Spencer, were
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Top 10 best production motorcycle paintjobs
By Visordown on 04/04/2013 21:01:49
This list is the product of many a heated debate but we're still not sure it's perfect. Nevermind, here are our best road-bike paintjobs. You're guaranteed to disagree.
to Kenny Roberts we wanted them in yellow, not red.Surprisingly few of the firm’s production bikes have actually sported that classic scheme, though, so the RD400 – circa 1977, right in Kenny’s heyday – does the job nicely.9: Yamaha TDR250IN the eye
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MotoGP Laguna Seca Preview - Poor Little Rich Girl
By David Emmett on 19/07/2007 23:31:02
MotoGP crosses the Atlantic, and hits The Corkscrew
, and with Hopkins originally hailing from Ramona, in Southern California, he will be relentless in pursuit of victory.As for Kurtis Roberts, victory must seem a very distant prospect. The younger son of Kenny Roberts Sr. has done remarkably well replacing his
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