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Moped Endurance
By Mark Forsyth on 26/10/2010 13:35:58
Step aside MotoGP, cheap-as-chips supermoto moped endurance racing is about to hit the big time. Mark Forsyth took a real racer and factory mechanic to the job - and still didn't win
It's 8am. The pits are a literal translation of the word and the paddock looks like a 20-year-old Frank Thomas catalogue. And the 'race machinery'? It's not a pretty sight.Welcome to RAF Wittering's bi-annual six-hour Supamotoped endurance race - a
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Fit for purpose: Diablo 666 Endurance ZX-10R
By Bertie Simmonds on 20/10/2010 10:03:37
The average road bike does a bit of everything. But there are machines in the biking world designed to do one job only. Pure specialists if you will. These are the bikes...
THE RIDER James Hutchins, Diablo 666 World Endurance racer"Endurance racing is just that. If you have to do an hour stint at the Suzuka Eight-Hour in oppressively hot and humid conditions you really do feel like you're going to pass out. You
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The Joy of Six... (cylinders)
By Stuart Barker on 05/08/2010 09:56:23
For the first time in more than two decades, you'll be able to buy a bike with an across the frame six-cylinder engine. We look at the enduring appeal of six..
The bike in question will be BMW’s forthcoming LT tourer, which will use the engine and chassis shown off in last year’s mad-looking Concept 6 prototype wrapped up in a new touring package. But regardless of the new LT’s intentions or appearance, all eyes will be focussed on just...
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Unfinished business - Laverda SFC
By Visordown on 27/08/2010 15:01:07
Conceived in boom-time and canned when Laverda owners Aprilia felt the pinch from falling scooter sales, the SFC (Super Freni Competizione – as in super brakes competition) was an interpretation of Laverda’s iconic early seventies endurance racer
Like Gilera, Laverda is a name that’s been missing from ‘proper’ bikes for years but it came close to a comeback in 2003 with the Aprilia-backed SFC.Having struggled from one owner to another for years, churning out variations on its ancient parallel twin sports bikes, Laverda wa...
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Whitham's Moped Marathon
By James Whitam on 15/10/2010 12:00:44
Coast-to-coast smokey strokers, Whitham style
Our plan, to ride a bunch of 1970s sports mopeds from coast to coast, seemed like it would be quite a challenge until I called the hotel in Kirkby Lonsdale to book our first night away.The receptionist said: "Oh yes, we get a lot of people staying here who're doing the John O'Gro...
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Mount Everest vs. The Isle of Man TT
By Ben Cope on 30/05/2012 15:24:00
A few thoughts for your consideration
that the TT is one of those great feats of human endurance and when I think of the feat of human endurance, I think of those who try and reach the peak of Mount Everest.Despite huge advances in technology, Climbing Mount Everest remains one of the signatures
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To The Crusher - Yamaha SZR660
By on 03/04/2008 15:42:01
On paper it was a great idea. Build a sporty-looking single cylinder motorcycle.
the Yamaha powered Over machine, seemed to take it to their hearts in a way similar to the Endurance game show and water torture. Nearer to home the Dutch also found the bike to their liking, although probably only after so many spliffs that they were utterly
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Death of the Dakar
By Mike Peake on 22/10/2010 10:07:24
What really happened behind the scenes when the 2008 Dakar rally was cancelled due to terrorist threats. Visordown investigates
, the Dakar rally – the ultimate off-road endurance race for bikes and their four-wheeled, dust-loving brethren – was infamously and spectacularly cancelled at the 11th hour. More than two months on, riders who had spent the best part of last year preparing
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Bad Boy No.5: Mike Goodwin
By Stuart Barker on 07/12/2010 15:05:56
A business deal between the inventor of Supercross and Mickey Thompson turned sour ending in the assassination of Thompson
as an off-road car racer, drag racer and record-breaker. He was the first man to break the 400mph barrier in a wheel-driven car (as opposed to rocket or jet-powered) and set a total of 485 separate speed and endurance records - more than any other driver
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The Six Sexiest Bimotas
By Roland Brown on 20/12/2010 11:04:40
Their business history may be erratic and their electronics legendarily so, but the one thing Bimota have always been able to do is bolt together a damn fine-looking motorcycle. Here’s the six sexiest bikes they ever built.
is perhaps not that Bimota has struggled recently, but that the firm is still building bikes today — unlike most of those old rivals.By 2003, when Roberto Comini became involved, the Rimini factory had endured two lengthy periods of closure. There was a
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