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Five future classic sportsbikes
By Tim Skilton on 04/09/2007 12:34:57
Visordown predicts five potential appreciating classics
,000 miles for £3695Things to knowOhlins damper transforms handlingFront forks benefit from revalveClutch can slip if fully synthetic oil usedChain should be kept fairly slack180-section tyre improves handling (190 standard)SpecsPower 123bhpWeight 187kg
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How to race motocross
By John Cantlie on 19/02/2009 12:13:13
It’s the cheapest and most exciting form of two-wheeled motorsport with a growing ‘veterans’ crowd of over 35 year-olds racing. Fancy something new? Here’s how to get started.
, old chain-smoking fellas on old bikes. Invariably they’ve been doing it for 30 years and they’re always fast. But the single best thing about motocross is that when you do jump off your bike, it costs nothing more than a quick war story back
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Don't Look Back in Anger
By Bertie Simmonds on 14/08/2001 15:53:42
Four people who have had family members killed in racing, but have dealt with their loss and carried on in the sport that they love
was an unbelievable precision engineer. The barrels of the single were machined out of solid billet and it took him 500 hours to make one! Unbelievable. When we stripped the racebikes down, one of the guys who helped us started laughing. Looking at the chain, you
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Living with a 2001 Suzuki DR-Z400S
By Ian Cobby on 26/06/2002 14:28:16
No-one in the office remembers Ian Cobby, but he was a staffer on this magazine a long long time ago
to the spacers - you know the scenario? Hold the wheel up, hook the chain on, hold the spacers in line, and just as you ease the spindle in a spacer falls out. Not with the Talons, thanks to the captive spacers.Before the wheels fitted themselves they needed
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Second Hand
By Jon Urry on 12/10/2007 12:49:25
With a £5000 budget we delve into the second-hand market to test four of the best used bargains around, the 2001 Aprilia Mille, 2000 Duacti 748, 2001 Honda Fireblade and 2001 Suzuki GSX-R750
to the same conclusion. As well as a rough motor, he notes that the clutch cable needs lubing and the chain is slack: "If only the previous owner had spent his money looking after it, not on a blue screen and rear sets."There is nothing wrong with the bike
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Three And A Half Grand Secondhand Steel
By Jon Urry on 14/10/2007 15:22:12
With the unlikely premise of £3500 fast burning holes in their pockets, four TWO teamsters are buying second-hand steel. It's head v hearts all the way
, is asking for trouble. A 'bit of previous' doesn't come close. The chain was dragging on the floor, it smoked, it leaked oil, and it rattled like an industrial stone-crushing machine. JB said, "it's only the clutch rattling," or at least that's what I think
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Field of Dreams
By Stuart Barker on 22/10/2007 15:24:09
An empty field and a beaten-up moped. It's how most of us first began our love affair with biking and a rite of passage we will never forget. TWO celebrates the cult of the fieldbike
field as fast as possible. Your mate once told you it would run faster without exhausts so they are for the chop. Fuel is whatever dad's lawn mower runs on, oil is the grade that was on the shelf in the garage and the only lubrication on the chain
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World In Motion
By Harriet Ridley, Alex Hearn, Tim Dickson on 23/02/2008 15:05:39
Travel by car and you're watching a movie. Travel by bike and you're in the movie. Which is reason enough in our book to hit the road for a touring holiday. The question is, how do you want to do it?
rate if you're riding all day long - a dawn to dusk autoroute blast to the south of France can see off half a rear tyre, so always start a trip with new rubber. Chains, sprockets and brake pads need to be in top shape too. Preparation and a bit
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My Oulton Park Triumph Triple Challenge
By Ben Cope on 06/06/2012 15:19:00
A one-off ride on a Daytona 675 at Oulton Park. It's what dreams are made of.
it's the chain slipping on a worn sprocket? At that speed, on that corner, I don’t have enough spare brain cells to work it out but I do figure out it's happening at high revs, so I change up as soon as the engine even hints at hesitating. We cross
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