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Bike Icon: Yamaha FZR750R OW01
By Harriet Ridley on 13/09/2010 16:24:04
Where Honda led, others followed. Enter Yamaha's wannabe RC30-beater, the OW01
World Superbikes will always remain a great championship in the mind of the motorcycle enthusiast, simply because it has produced some of recent history's most groundbreaking production machines. Motorcycles like Yamaha's FZR750R OW01 homologation
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Class of '93: Ducati 888 SP5 vs Yamaha OW01
By Simon Bowen on 14/01/2011 14:24:15
Yamaha hadn’t achieved the racing success they wanted with their OW01, but Ducati enjoyed the opposite with the very pinnacle of 851 development in 1993
That’s not to say that Yamaha hadn’t made a useful and widely publicised impact back in 1989. In order to eclipse Honda’s RC30 on track, they built 500 OW01 homologation specials that created a media frenzy thanks to an unprecedented level
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Desirable ex-race bikes on eBay
By Visordown News on 02/03/2012 13:53:12
Where that gorgeous 1199RS will be in 10 years...
near-impossible task.At the other end of the scale comes this. Yep, that's a Yamaha OW-01 ex-racer being offered “spares or repair” - no hint of history other than the fact it was originally road registered with a James Whitham appearing on the V5
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The 12 motorcycles that matter
By Visordown on 22/11/2011 12:35:55
We wouldn't be where we are today without these twelve bikes that changed history and in doing so, reached the coveted status of icon
GSX-R1100 here.Yamaha FZR750R OW01Where Honda led, others followed. Enter Yamaha's wannabe RC30-beater, the OW01. Read about the Yamaha FZR750R OW01 here.Kawasaki ZXR750The Kawasaki ZXR750 was lean, mean and best in green, meet the best-looking mass
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Happy 50th Hizzy
By Robin Goodwin on 11/01/2012 12:30:40
Remembering Steve Hislop
a privately entered rotary Norton, against Carl Fogarty on the Loctite Yamaha OW01 in the 1992 Senior TT - one of the greatest races to ever take place on the 37.73 mile Isle of Man circuit.As they both obliterated the lap records set the previous
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Motorcycle Radar: 1989
By Roland Brown on 22/11/2010 15:28:35
Liquid-cooled multi-valve engines. Some bikes even had aluminium frames. Yes, it was 1989
as the OW-01 was built to rival Honda’s RC30. It was trick but cost more than twice as much as its big brother, the FZR1000 EXUP. At the launch at Donington the OW was super-fast and handled beautifully, but my most vivid memory is of Yamaha’s racer Nick
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