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Motogpnews.com. A blatant but worthwhile plug
By mark forsyth on 02/08/2010 14:14:26
Published on another website, but we like it...
celebrate?1 Return to parc ferme, give an interview & thank the team & fans2 Pull some big wheelies & jubilantly spray the champers on the podium3 Keep the entire paddock & TV audience waiting while you arse about on track for 10minutes looking for your
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Living with a 2001 Suzuki GSX-R1000 K1
By Alex Hearn on 26/05/2002 14:42:12
Alex Hearn used to edit TWO magazine and also had a Porsche Boxster with the number plate AL3X HN. Bonza!
use in the hands of others than it has mine - there's never a shortage of people wanting a go.Sonic used it at the rich boys' Gumball Rally at Santa Pod where it ripped through the standing quarter in 10.5s @ 136mph, and then on one wheel in 12.8s
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Living with a 2003 Suzuki GSX-R750 K3
By Warren Pole on 12/10/2003 14:48:11
Warren Pole appeared to have the most number of longterm motorcycles to review here, but seemed to write the least about them. Figure that out?
but also robbed feel - I'm trying a few new pad compounds and first ones in have been SBS RS (£20.99 per pair, 0800 0183790) which have improved stoppies considerably in town, so should hopefully earn their keep at the track too. We shall see.On the day
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Nostalgic Moped Memories
By Grant Leonard on 26/11/2010 16:39:34
If you're in your mid-40s this feature will move your soul and bring back floods of memories so vivid you can almost touch them. Just turn the key and push the pedal...
mph (oh yus...). Price (1975) £215. Colours: Candy orange (1972), Popsicle purple (1973), Baja brown (1974), Competition yellow (1975).Garelli -Mine was a red Mk1 Rekord. God it was ugly, but it looked like a real motorbike. I even took the left
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Riding the Weston Beach Race
By John Hogan on 06/01/2007 10:51:36
The Weston Beach Race is gnarly. Always cold and wet, it's three miles of knee-deep sand and 1000 dirt bike loons. For three hours. Hogan the Innocent thought he stood a chance...
of a spanner from the other and even raced for a season, finishing last in two races and finding unconciousness in all the others. Just the ticket.At 12.15pm we filed into parc ferme (French for 'leave your bikes here'). With 10 minutes to the start
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Director of KTM RC8 Sales & Marketing: Hubert Trunkenpolz
By Hubert Trunkenpolz on 18/02/2008 16:05:33
The man responsible for the promotion behind the Austrian firms debut superbike
. Not spirit-wise, size-wise. When I started we made about 16,000 bikes, then in 1999 we had a big investment, this year we will produce 100,258 bikes. It has been hard. In Austria the unemployment rate is just 2.5%, everyone who wants to work has work, and we
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Living with excess: 2006 Suzuki GSX-R750
By John Hogan on 28/03/2010 10:03:49
Special excess: the UK's best-seller
DATE - 2006PRICE NEW - £7799ENGINE CAPACITY - 749ccPOWER - 133.2bhp @ 11,500TORQUE - 66.5lb.ft @ 8700rpmWEIGHT - 163kgSEAT HEIGHT - 810mm FUEL CAPACITY - 16.5LTOP SPEED - 154.4mphTANK RANGE - 105miles
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The Professionals - Simon Smith
By Visordown on 21/10/2010 16:46:04
Simon Smith of Global Enduro on corrupt coppers, giving £1million to charity and sucking warm milk from a cow’s udder…
arriving within 12 hours, who’d raised £250,000 for charity and we’d already spent their money on organising the tour. As my customers were above Iran on a plane, I was on an overnight train to meet the one politician who could over-rule this corrupt copper
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2011 MotoGP, Moto2 & 125 entry lists
By Visordown News on 25/01/2011 09:21:08
Official confirmation of the teams and riders that will contest the 2011 season
, INTERWETTEN PADDOCK M2 RACING, SUTER 13; ANTHONY WEST, AUSTRALIAN, MZ RACING TEAM, MZ-RE HONDA 14; RATTHAPARK WILAIROT, THAI, SAG TEAM, FTR 15; ALEX DE ANGELIS, SAN MARINESE, JIR Moto2, MOTOBI 16; JULES CLUZEL, FRENCH, FORWARD RACING, SUTER 21; JAVIER FORES
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"They gave me four geisha girls"
By Robin Goodwin on 27/06/2011 15:45:58
A recollection of Phil Read and Yamaha's first GP championship
season and Suzuki from the 125 class.”As reigning champions in 1965 Yamaha continued with the RD56 as Read was able to retain the number one plate. But to answer Honda's growing challenge of the six-cylinder RC166, Yamaha introduced the RD05 with a V4 two
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