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Bike Icon: Ducati 888
By Mark Forsyth on 08/09/2010 15:09:22
The Ducati 888 is the Great Grandaddy of the 1198 and its awesome racing pedigree bred a road legend whose racing history is crucial to its status
a bike to speed them to racing dominance while creating a following like never before. This was Ducati's new 'reparto sperimentale' - or 'experimental department' in full effect.For his new project, Bordi took the parts most readily available
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Bike Icon: Norton Commando
By Mark Shippey on 14/09/2010 17:53:35
Much-loved and much maligned, the Norton Commando both saved and then helped to kill the British bike industry
importing in great numbers to the UK were suddenly being replaced with iconic bikes such as the CB750.The Commando was designed as a direct replacement to the ageing Atlas 750, even using the same 750cc vertical twin engine (which could be traced back still
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Bike Icon: Yamaha RD400
By Stuart Barker on 26/10/2010 17:23:27
Post RD350 and pre RD350LC there was the RD400. Cool doesn't even come close
the factory to re-tool in order to produce it.The new machine also featured a rubber-mounted engine to reduce vibration as well as new wheels and brakes. The engine was also moved forward in a bid to reduce the bike's tendency to wheelie but, happily
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Bike Icon: Suzuki GT750
By Benjamin Kubas Cronin on 22/10/2010 17:16:17
Think 750cc, think Suzuki. Here's the bike that kicked it all off way back in 1972. Somebody put the kettle on...
in the '70s, utilizing the growing number of GT aftermarket goodies.As has so often been the story with many iconic motorcycles, emission laws finally killed off the GT after 1977. The bike had been improved almost each year with the most effective revamp
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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
paying off the finance on a bike now irretrievably reduced to its component parts, but that's another matter, because as far as intense riding experiences go, the RGV was worth every penny.Suzuki moved things on from their RG500 and RG250 to get the track
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Bike Icon: Yamaha FS1-E
By Benjamin Kubas Cronin on 10/09/2010 13:42:24
It's the bike that was once parked outside chip shops across the land. Here we look at the Fizzie and all of its 4.8bhp. Long live pedal power!
after '77 to 30mph) - would make this so. Oh, and some did about 55mph, which is akin to cracking the ton when you're 16!The bike was launched as a sports moped and was the first of its kind. Until then, only larger capacity machines were given the go
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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
Pirovano, while Mighty Mick Doohan took the higher-specced FZ750R to three top podium places. But for Yamaha, the FZ750 and R were never more than stop-gaps as race bikes, there to keep the factory's toe in the racing scene while they busied themselves
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Bike Icon: Kawasaki ZXR750
By Mark Shippey on 11/10/2010 13:09:50
Lean, mean and best in green, come and meet the best-looking mass production 750 four-cylinder sportsbike ever
). This first incarnation bore an uncanny resemblance to a race bike, and utilized an updated GPX power plant. The most notable part of the H1 was the addition of the completely useless but very cool looking 'Hoover' pipes. Iconic in themselves, they did nothing
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Bike Icon: Kawasaki KR-1
By Harriet Ridley on 22/10/2010 10:44:42
Looking like it had been waved out of pitlane and on to the road, the KR-1 arrived in a puff of blue smoke back in 1988
by unleashing their tandem twin KR250 road bike, which only two years later came fitted with powervalves and the letter 'S' after its KR250 designation. Sadly, neither of these models saw our shores as an official import. But the later KR-1 did.By the late '80s
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Bike Icon: Suzuki GSX-R1100
By Stuart Barker on 08/10/2010 13:11:59
Like a nightclub bouncer ripped to the tits on bodybuilding steroids, the big Suzuki was not to be messed with. Unless you were rock hard...
Suzuki's GSX-R1100 has always been thought of as the ultimate hooligan's tool. That's not a slur on the bike itself, rather it's a compliment since it proves that the big Gixxer was so insanely fast, powerful and competent that it satisfied
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