Talking to Freddie Spencer takes time, simply because there's so much to hear. But it's all worth it and any chat with the modest icon makes you realise just how much he's done. In short, absolutely masses.He can recall his GP days, or any other

One former motorcycling deity won two championships in the 1980s. Freddie Spencer achieved what many thought was impossible, taking both the 500cc and 250cc titles in the same year - 1985. In doing so he shone briefly like a supernova before

' Championships. Ridden by Freddie Spencer, the engine was a liquid-cooled 2-stroke 90-degree V4, the animal of the GP500 world. It weighed in at just over 115kg and produced around 140bhp at the rear wheel. Most riders who thought they could tame it were wrong

name that deserves serious consideration is triple-world champion, Freddie Spencer.Freddie was born in 1961 in Shreveport, Louisiana. By the age of eleven he'd already become a formidable dirt tracker, winning 10 state championships in short and dirt

FREDDIE SPENCER'S championship-winning Honda NS500 and NSR250 have gone up for sale for an undisclosed amount in the United States.The machines helped Spencer secure two world titles: the 1983 500cc crown, when Spencer was just 21, and the 1985 250

25 years ago Freddie Spencer managed a magical feat by winning both the 250 and 500 Grand Prix championships in the same year. Freddie Spencer tested his abilities to the upmost from jumping off the 250 to then line-up on the grid for the 500 race

of the sport's all-time greats - Kevin Schwantz, Wayne Rainey and Freddie Spencer, the men he hero-worshipped as a kid - he positively rubbed his hands at the prospect of answering them.Kevin Schwantz graduated from Superbikes with Suzuki in the 1980s and won

“My worst Mackenzie memory? That would have to be the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka in 1987,” Rob McElnea muses. “I was fairly well established on the Grand Prix scene at that point and then this Niall Mackenzie bloke comes along for the first race in his first season of GPs and ...

Got to apologise for the mogadon-inspired soundtrack but this 1979 Kawasaki promo vid' is worth watching just for the footage of Freddie Spencer and Wes Cooley.Watch the slo-mo of Cooley's GS1000 Suzuki on the brakes. It's horrendous. Check out

the desirability of these historic motorcycles.They are Freddie Spencer’s title winning 1983 NS500-triple Honda and the legendary NSR250 from the now infamous 1985 season, the year Spencer clinched both the 250 and 500 World Championships – a feat never likely