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Road V Race - Superbikes
By Warren Pole on 08/12/2003 11:31:46
How does a roadbike become a BSB contender, and how different are they? We find out
of this year's BSB crop with their equivalent roadbikes to go back-to-back to settle this little debate once and for all.Team managers and mechanics have been grilled for the lowdown on just what it takes to transform standard roadbikes into British
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The Chosen Ones - Yamaha YZF-R1
By Warren Pole on 11/10/2007 17:36:22
In homage to Valentino Rossi's Yamaha-mounted world championship win, TWO takes all four generations of R1 to Spain for a right good thrashing and a weekend at the races.
it - they are astounding. Just don't forget your earplugs. Qualifying done and dusted - Tamada bagging pole and Biaggi edging Rossi into third spot - we hightailed it back to town for our glad rags and a night out. Thanks to a combination of huge Spanish spirit measures
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Living with a 2001 Yamaha YZF-R6
By Warren Pole on 26/10/2001 15:15:14
Warren Pole was a product of the Superbike generation. Warren was Wozza to many and a pole to all
while at the back, the sleek lines are even better with the lights and indicators nicely faired in. This puppy looks hot, and she's gonna look even better with a coat of paint next month.To ensure it wasn't all show and no go, I took the R6 down
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Teenage Kicks
By Warren Pole on 01/04/2005 12:11:08
Grubby oiks on the rob, or the very future of motorcycling? Wozza hunts out the kids on scooters to find out
width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /I'd been back from holiday five hours and was in the middle of unpacking, throwing last month's milk out and wading through the fan mail and bills
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Sandhurst Tug of War vs. Triumph Rocket III
By Warren Pole on 21/10/2010 12:36:59
Men versus machine in an old fashioned, brute force, give it all you've got contest
. It's a mix of great strength - our eight-man team can exert a force of 1.6 tons - and endurance, as a match can last anything from five to 10 minutes. We've held back a Mercedes car, so I'd be interested in seeing what that bike can do."We start
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Beaujolais or bust
By Warren Pole on 28/01/2008 11:07:59
Four men, four bikes, one quest - to bring home the first bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau 2004 to British shores. The question isn't 'Why?', it's 'Why not?' Allez!
This is a tale rotten to its core with lies, deceit and treachery. Some was small, some considerably larger, but all resulted in four of us riding into deepest France in hostile conditions on a motley selection of motorcycles before racing back
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The bikes that time forgot
By Warren Pole on 21/09/2010 11:13:04
These four bikes were meant to turn motorcycling on its head but they never did. Wozza dons his rose-tinted goggles to ponder why
-forward thing that arrived in the 70s when we thought bikes were suddenly all about to sprout roofs? Never quite happened did it. Or how about when turbos were all the rage back in the 80s and bikes like the CX650 Turbo (which, incidentally weighed about as much
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Icon - Peter Purves
By Warren Pole on 28/10/2010 15:32:01
A legend. Peter Purves has been in tons of cult TV shows and a stable of British television in Blue Peter and anchoring the Crufts dog show, but it is his role as the face of Kickstart for its entire 13-series run that we find Mr Purves here as an icon
if trials wasn't really your bag - this was bikes on telly which back in those days was an even rarer commodity than it is today. By this virtue alone Kickstart was compulsive viewing, alongside ChiPs and Boon.And throughout it all was Peter. Never mind
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Going Down - The Art of Crashing
By Warren Pole on 01/09/2010 09:41:39
Welcome to the taboo world of the crash. What they're about, why they happen and how not to have them. All you ever wanted to know about something you don't want to do
-sky-earth-sky-oh-no-not-the-collarbones tumble across the grass. If you find yourself in any of these situations, relax, kick back and enjoy the ride. After all, what else can you do?Continue
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Bike Icon: Suzuki RGV250
By Warren Pole on 16/09/2010 16:05:22
1989 was a vintage year for hoodlum teenagers worldwide because this was the year Suzuki unleashed the RGV250, the purest and most race-bred two-stroke track tool ever to make it into a showroom
look bang on.For just over three grand you got the fattest aluminium beam frame yet seen on a production bike and a host of other pukka race-bred features like the underslung rear caliper and beefy race swingarm.You also got sleek, crisp lines
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