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Motorcycle Hall of Fame gets new attractions
By Tim Skilton on 17/12/2007 23:46:20
8000 sq ft complex to house celebrity machines
Rush's Neil Peart pictured with his BMW 1200GSTHE MOTORCYCLE Hall of Fame Museum in Ohio, USA is set to launch a new exhibit names "MotoStars: Celebrities + Motorcycles" in late March 2008. The 8,000-square-foot exhibit will feature many priceless
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Top 10 unsung yet iconic motorcycles
By Stuart Barker on 25/03/2010 12:19:00
Fame, It's a funny old business. You'll find more talented musicians busking on the London Underground than you will at the top of the charts. Here's the motorcycling equivalent
biking identity parade.As with so many cases of fame, it's not always talent - or in this case, brilliant engineering - that ensures a household name, it's more about looks, images, sales or just being on the right bike in the right place at the right
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Rossi up for World Sportsman of the Year
By Visordown News on 17/04/2009 11:59:06
MotoGP star could join Woods, Armstrong, Federer and Schumacher in sporting hall of fame
Reigning MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi’s achievements in 2008 have been recognised with a nomination for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award, an honour that will be decided at the tenth edition of the Laureus World Sports Awards.Rossi was one of six sportsmen to...
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Jamie Whitham Column - Aug 2007
By Jamie Whitham on 01/08/2007 16:50:28
After years of hankering after televisual fame, Jamie at last makes it to mainstream telly with an appearance on Scrapheap Challenge. Of course, chaos ensued...
WHEN YOU WERE A kid did you ever want to appear on a TV program? I wrote to Jimmy Saville two or three times asking him to fix it for me to drive a tank, and even rang Noel Edmonds' Saturday Swapshop once. Well it's taken me 30 years, but I'm finally going to be appearing on a ...
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The story of the Honda CBR600 (1987 to 2007)
By Bertie Simmonds on 06/02/2007 11:10:33
When doomsday comes, history will only record one motorcycle in the all-time hall of fame: the CBR600. Now in its 20th year, we chart the success of a biking icon
1987 to 1990 CBR600 (FH/FJ/FK/FL)And so it was born. The 'jelly mould' fairing hid a steel frame, an inline four of 598cc with 16 valves and 70-80bhp, good for a top speed just shy of 150mph. Around 10bhp up and, at 182 kilos, more than 10 kilos down on Kawasaki's then shit-hot G...
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James Whitham Column - Aug 01
By James Whitham on 13/08/2001 10:48:06
James has never let the glamour and fame of World Championship racing get in the way of being a down-to-earth, funny-as-fook, all-round good bloke.
Earnshaws, my local bike shop in Huddersfield, has occasional midweek bike runs out and this time round I went along. Me and a pal of mine, King, went - him on his nearly brand new Fazer 1000 and me on an FJR1300, sports-tourer thing, I borrowed from the shop. The night were bill...
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All The King's Men - Rossi's Entourage
By Gordon Ritchie on 23/06/2005 16:53:38
Being a MotoGP superhero makes Valentino Rossi very popular indeed. But all that fame can be a burden. Here we meet Vale's inner circle - the close allies who control and protect his image
to flourish.Despite seeing his face everywhere, it's still easy to underestimate the pan-global phenomenon of Valentino Rossi's whole fame shtick, which has grown to a size that eclipses anything that has come from the GP paddock before. He's a peerless racer
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Buell 1190RS launch imminent
By Visordown News on 11/02/2011 14:52:59
Erik drops another hint
'll be making a speech at a Motorcycle Hall of Fame fund-raising event in Daytona on March 11, at the end of the annual Bike Week.Speaking about the event, he said: “For me, motorcycling has always been about the journey, about the people, about the ideas behind
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Danny 'Magoo' Chandler dies, aged 50
By Visordown News on 06/05/2010 09:41:53
Eighties motocross champ passes away at home in USA
AMERICAN motocross racing legend Danny 'Magoo' Chandler has died, aged 50.Longtime friend and fan Brett Freed confirmed Wednesday that Chandler died at his home in Colfax.Chandler rose to fame in the 1980s before a crash during the 1985 Paris
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Lampkin joins MacAskill to launch World Trials event
By Visordown News on 05/05/2010 14:14:57
Trials champ teams up with YouTube sensation in Scotland
MEGA-TALENTED stunt cyclist Danny MacAskill has helped to promote the SPEA FIM Trial World Championships, whick take place in Lochaber in June. Mr MacAskill, who shot to fame in the YouTube sensation 'Inspired Bicycles' featured on Visordown
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