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Superbike classics - Ducati 916SP v Honda RC45
By John Cantlie on 17/06/2010 09:17:31
The mid 1990s was the era of the racebike on the road. World Superbikes became massive, so the manufacturers produced exotic superbikes for the fight. And none were more special than Ducati’s bellowing 916SP or Honda’s mighty RC45
Click to read: Ducati 916SP owners reviewsClick to read: Honda RC45 owners reviewsWorld Superbikes was simply massive in this country in 1995. While GPs were dominated by Mick Doohan and turning into a predictable procession, WSB was tough, gnarly
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I Love The 90s
By Stuart Barker on 04/11/2010 09:39:01
Choose a FireBlade. Choose a Ducati 916. Choose born-again bikers, track days, Mick Doohan and Carl Fogarty. Choose the 1990s.
. Choose Triumph, choose shell suits, choose alco-pops. Choose the 1990s.There are just as many reasons to forget the 1990s as there are to remember the decade but as far as bikes went, it was a pretty sensational ten years.Honda's FireBlade was launched
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Five £3000 late '90s icons
By Ben Cope on 31/01/2012 16:31:35
Want to treat yourself to a slice of 90s cool?
What were the cult bikes of the late 1990s? That's the question that circulated the office today and after much heated debate (and one tantrum), we whittled the list down to these five. Without the £3000 limit, our list would have remained a fantasy
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BSB: Wright nudges closer to 100 BSB wins
By Visordown News on 20/07/2009 09:15:00
Colin Wright becomes the most successful race team manager of all time
started back in the mid 1990s and during that time he has employed big names like Terry Rymer and Gregorio Lavilla and developed young talent that went on to become multiple World Champions like Troy Bayliss, Neil Hodgson and James Toseland.Quite a CV
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Grey Matters - 400cc test
By Jon Urry on 29/07/2010 14:49:50
In the early 1990s, 400cc race reps were all the rage. But that was nearly two decades ago. Are these pocket rockets still a viable buy in the secondhand market or simply relics from the past?
If you were young and looking at buying a sportsbike in the early 1990s your choice was limited. This was long before the times of the 0% finance deal or free insurance currently being offered to try and entice younger buyers.In the 1990s you could
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Ducati's 300: from Lucchinelli to Checa
By Robin Goodwin on 01/08/2011 10:37:45
Ducati reaches 300 World Superbike victories milestone
in 1988 when 1981 500GP champion Marco Lucchinelli scored the top honours on his Ducati 888.From there came the iconic years of the 1990s when Carl Fogarty started his control of the WSB title from 1994 and becoming the most successful rider in both WSB
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The Aprilia Racing Specials: RS250, RSV Mille and RS3 Cube
By Visordown on 12/04/2010 09:37:23
From the dominant RS250, to the V-twin Mille and the beastly Cube. Visordown details three bikes that define Aprila's racing pedigree
1990s Aprilia was all about confidence.Having won its first race back in 1987 the race department, working under technical director Jan Witteveen, refined its 250 racer into a frontrunner looking for a champion. After an early career with the Noale
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Splitting heirs - Kawasaki ZX-10R V ZX-10R
By Jon Urry on 20/03/2008 15:36:50
It was the maddest 1,000cc superbike in the world, then they tamed it. TWO rides both incarnations of the Kawasaki ZX-10R back to back...
In the late 1990s and early 2000s Kawasaki had problems. Bike sales weren't brilliant and there was a feeling that the company had lost its direction. New models were short on the ground and, dare we say it, Big Green had become stagnant. A breath
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Second chance - Honda VTR1000 Firestorm
By Visordown on 16/06/2010 10:19:39
A look at one of the most popular motorcycles made by Honda, the VTR1000 Firestorm
of the late 1990s.Their homologation specials, the SP-1 and SP-2, were of course the ultimate no-holds-barred answer that did indeed slay 998s in WSB, but you're talking £4-5k plus there. Buy a Firestorm and you'll get at least three
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Booty Call: The Fattie custom craze
By Visordown on 18/11/2010 16:44:11
Forget choppers and custom bikes, there’s a new craze sweeping the USA from the West coast to the East. It involves grafting ridiculous oversize tyres and swingarms onto previously normal sportsbikes...
the country permitted two-wheelers to share the tarmac with hot rods in the 1950s, but it didn’t cross over into the custom streetbike scene until the mid 1990s. Until then it had been common to see boardracer-styled customs crackling around New York and Los
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