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Motorcycle Radar: 1982
By Roland Brown on 23/11/2010 12:07:30
1982 was a great year. The year Visordown's founder Ben Cope was born. But what else happened?
1982Was this motorcycling’s maddest ever year? Honda and Yamaha were in the middle of a civil war that resulted in some amazingly ambitious machinery - notably Honda’s CX500 turbo and first V4, the VF750s - plus some under-developed and unreliable rubbish. New technology was arri...
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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.
Bimota always were a class apart, though, due initially to the brilliance of co-founder Massimo Tamburini (whose surname, along with those of his friends Valerio Bianchi and Giuseppe Morri, gave the firm its name). Bimota was founded to make air
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Motorcycle Radar: 1979
By Roland Brown on 25/11/2010 13:33:39
Some say it was the golden year of motorcycling. But then, they could be wearing their rose-tinted specs
, Vetter fairings and Derriboots.FOUR TOPSAmong several hot fours was Honda’s CB900FZ, featuring a powerful 16-valve engine and a sweet-steering chassis inspired by Honda’s endurance racers. It had strong opposition in Suzuki’s GS1000S, a bikini
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Motorcycle Radar: 1996
By Roland Brown on 02/12/2010 13:38:12
Esteemed motorcycle journalist, Roland Brown, talks about what was going on in motorcycling, way back when
and handling to escape. Unfortunately for Bimota it was so strange and expensive that hardly anybody bought one.Lightning StrikesBack in 1996 Buell was still controlled by founder Erik Buell, although Harley had recently bought a 49 per cent stake in the small
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Motorcycle Radar: 1997
By Roland Brown on 06/12/2010 13:49:10
Roland Brown is a world class swordsman, entertainer, poet, scientist, boxer, ladies' man and motorcycle journalist. Only one of those is true.
-twin cruiser. It wasn't even the Elvis impersonator's rendition of Hound Dog, following our tour of the King's house. No, the thing that sticks in my mind was the sight of TWO co-founder Grant Leonard in mini-skirt, fishnets and stilettos. Grant claimed his
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