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Mike Scott Column - Oct 2007
By Mike Scott on 10/10/2007 12:51:16
Rossi's under pressure and Honda's on the edge, reckons Mike Scott, our GP paddock pitbull
't find anyone fresher. Like Anthony West, if Kawasaki don't hang on to him. And finally there's Dovizioso (arguably an even better 250 rider than Lorenzo) ready to move and probably to Ducati.One remaining question. Will Pedrosa make good his earlier
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Mike Scott Column - Jul 2005
By Mike Scott on 01/07/2005 11:09:42
Speed is of the essence
The 800s ... quicker than the 990 and they feel like two-strokes. Can that be bad?MotoGP has set itself a hard question... how fast is too fast? The way the rules are constructed, this comes down to one thing: engine size. Nobody knows the answer
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The End of Trackdays?
By Mike Peake on 18/03/2009 10:49:24
Soaring costs, endless red-tape and now a new peril – an American-style suing culture – are taking their toll on the British motorcyclist’s greatest escape…
that two riders have tried – unsuccessfully – to sue him to date, explaining that he managed to fight off both claims thanks to some “great witnesses” who were able to put serious question marks over the claimant’s versions of events. “It cost me several
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Unique custom bike built live at NEC Show
By Visordown News on 21/10/2008 10:26:40
Hawg Haven to build custom special live at NEC and give it away to one lucky member of the public
!The bike will be built against the clock under the ‘Carole Nash Construct’ banner on themotorcycle insurance giant’s attraction-packed stand, to be completed before the show closes onDecember 7th. (Hall 2, Stand 2C20)A four strong team, including Hawg Haven
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Jamie Whitham Column - May 2007
By Jamie Whitham on 01/05/2007 12:18:50
What's more painful, a broken femur or a tube up your love muscle? Don't know? Well James Whitham does, of course, as a former secret shopper for the NHS
Rutter, John McGuinness, Guy Martin and myself were on stage and half-way through a 'question and answer' session with a packed hall of about 500 racing enthusiasts when a scream goes up and the crowd parted. Eyup, I thought, must be a scrap. I was about
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Niall Mackenzie Column - Jul 2006
By niall mackenzie on 01/07/2006 15:58:05
Yamaha's M1, Rossi's successor and Mr BSB - John Reynolds
Caption HereHAVE YOU EVER wondered how good Valentino Rossi's Yamaha M1 MotoGP bike is?It sounds like a daft question when you know it has won the last two MotoGP championships and a total of 20 races in the process, but at the risk of upsetting my
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Niall Mackenzie Column - Aug 2009
By Niall Mackenzie on 01/08/2009 14:35:11
Niall puts his weight behind the Aprilia RSV4 Factory, but he’s not so sure about electric race bikes at the TT. Surely noise is a big slice of the appeal of racing?
It was mainly through frustration that last month, I questioned whether or not Aprilia would get their act together in the UK and give customers a satisfactory level of service.My frustration came from knowing that, although their model line
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7 questions to the ZZR1400 engineers
By Ben Cope on 19/01/2012 17:09:07
Does it need traction control? Can it really crack 200mph and will the next model be supercharged?
cool.You claim the new engine can be 20% more fuel efficient than the last one, how?For a while now we've had an 'Eco mode' feature on bikes like the GTR which the rider can turn on, however now we have made this an automatic feature. The ECU predicts
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Public Access - James Toseland Road Ride
By Bertie Simmonds on 01/09/2006 14:46:03
With just days to go before Brands Hatch WSB, Bertie Simmonds takes a road ride on the wild side with 2004 World champ and Great British hope James Toseland
've been banned from stripping! My leather sponsors were a bit annoyed you see, with me not wearing them on the podium, which I can understand. But the other problem was with the organisers of the race, who said there was a scrap that went on for 20 minutes
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How much for Honda's RCV road bike?
By Visordown News on 21/11/2012 11:44:24
Does £38k sound about right?
at “more than” 30 million Yen in Japan (over £230,000), will be the racer. Effectively slightly down-spec'd RC213V it's no surprise to see it costing so much. The bigger question hangs over the price of the road bike, due to be made in larger numbers
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