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Mike Scott Column - Jan 2002
By Mike Scott on 01/01/2002 11:19:17
Old Scotty finds out 500cc GP riders are definitely a breed apart
.A force so great that your full strength is devoted purely to hanging on for dear life. There's no purchase from the footrests tucked under your bum, just the carbon-fibre grab rail at the back of the tank. Which you're using so damned hard that surely one
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First Ride: Mondial Piega
By Roland Brown on 03/04/2008 19:09:16
It's hard not to be sceptical about the rebirth of another once great Italian manufacturer.
out on the web at: www.mondialmoto.itSPECS TYPE - SUPERSPORTSPRODUCTION DATE - 2002PRICE NEW - N/AENGINE CAPACITY - 999ccPOWER - 140bhp@9800rpmTORQUE - 78lb.ft@8800rpmWEIGHT - 179kgSEAT HEIGHT - N/AFUEL CAPACITY - N/ATOP SPEED - N/A0-60 - n/aTANK RANGE
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Mike Scott Column - Jun 2006
By Mike Scott on 01/06/2006 12:16:27
Bearded GP paddock oracle Mike Scott tells all
, there are 10 more!'" he laughed afterwards.Those are the worst kind of accidents. Consider the appeal, at that moment, of the nice tailor-made racing seat, five-point safety harness and carbon-fibre roll cage offered by an F1 Ferrari.The nightmare lives
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Triumph Speed Triple vs. Aprilia Tuono vs. Kawasaki Z1000
By Ben Cope on 20/08/2009 17:40:55
Three of the best naked bikes of recent years. And all could be yours for under £5k.
So there we were, wheeling a 2004 Kawasaki Z1000, 2004 Triumph Speed Triple (the 955i variety) and a 2007 Aprilia Tuono out of the van. And I’m stood there thinking we might as well go home because the Aprilia’s won it. It’s barely two years old
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MotoGP: Stoner posts fastest test time on new GP9
By Visordown News on 10/06/2008 11:09:13
Click here to see images of Casy Stoner's new Ducati Desmosedici GP9
. Chris VERMEULEN (Suzuki) 1:42.78210. Andrea DOVIZIOSO (Honda) 1:42.81811. Colin EDWARDS (Yamaha) 1:43.12712. Toni ELIAS (Ducati) 1:43.19713. Dani PEDROSA (Honda) 1:43.55214. John HOPKINS (Kawasaki) 1:43.63015. Marco MELANDRI (Ducati) 1:44.32616
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First Ride: 2004 BMW R1100S Boxer Cup Replika
By Niall Mackenzie on 30/03/2008 21:37:30
BMW's take on 'race bike for the road' makes a refreshing change from the usual Jap fare.
ReplikaTYPE - SUPERSPORTS PRODUCTION DATE - 2004 PRICE NEW - £9200 ENGINE CAPACITY - 1085cc POWER - 96.5bhp@7500rpm TORQUE - 71.5lb.ft@5750rpm WEIGHT - 208kg SEAT HEIGHT - 860mm FUEL CAPACITY - 18L TOP SPEED - 135mph 0-60 - n/a TANK RANGE - N/A
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First Ride: Mondial Piega review
By Roland Brown on 15/09/2010 12:54:12
It's hard not to be sceptical about the rebirth of another once great Italian manufacturer
Piega is ready for action - and for sale to anyone with the required price of €30,000 (roughly £19,500).The question of which engine the bike would use was resolved when Honda agreed to supply the SP-1 unit. Mighty Honda doesn't usually bother with small
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Feed the habit: Living with the Ducati 1098R
By John Cantlie on 29/06/2010 10:55:25
Ducati’s hand-made and deliciously savage 1098R is unashamedly brutal, it takes no prisoners and makes no excuses. We lived with the £26k masterpiece for three weeks to find out if you can really live with such excess
and always will do, and this is the fastest, most glorious V-twin ever to be seen in this country. Or the next.180bhp is delivered to the magnesium back wheel through a 102db set of Termignoni exhausts with such girth they look like drainpipes. Carbon fibre
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Woodstock - Big BMWs offroad: 450 X, F800 GS & R1200 GS
By John Cantlie on 28/07/2010 09:36:23
For the average trail rider in the UK, a full-on enduro bike is overkill. Surely, a road bike with some big knobbly tyres for green-laning is enough? We put three grumpy old men haggard on a trio of BMWs to find out
and grumpier by the minute.We meet at Oli’s house for 10am and the grumbling begins almost immediately. “I saw two people on extremely expensive push-bikes crash at the weekend,” says Richard. “They’d spent £4,000 on carbon-fibre bikes, went hacking into a
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What’s MotoGP ever done for us?
By Bertie Simmonds on 30/04/2010 12:21:11
How comparable is a £3 million MotoGP weapon to your sportsbike? Since 2002 technology has filtered down from the best teams in the world, more so than you might imagine
When MotoGP arrived in 2002, the official line was that the old two-strokes were dinosaurs: anachronisms in titanium and carbon-fibre with little bearing on what we rode on the street. ‘Win on Sunday, sell on Monday’ was a popular marketing slogan
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