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Gordon Ritchie Column - Feb 2006
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/02/2006 10:13:55
Gordon Ritchie charts the Pirelli pilgrims' progress
width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /The signs were there. In the last few races of the year the Pirelli riders in World Superbike - that would be all of them - finally managed to break the one-make tyre series shackle...
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Gordon Ritchie Column - Dec 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/12/2005 12:04:15
Troy's got what it takes
width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /One peculiarity in the World Superbike orbit this year is that no matter how long the season has dragged on for, the certainty with which we can say that this or that rider will rid...
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Gordon Ritchie Column - Jan 2006
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/01/2006 09:23:32
Toseland switches to WSB and Vermeulen makes his move to MotoGP
width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /After Ducati recently burst the bubble on his five years of desmo-powered prominence, James Toseland has signed for the Ten Kate Honda squad. He may actually find that his enforced ...
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Gordon Ritchie Column - Nov 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/11/2005 16:32:34
Regicide
width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /No, not Laconi. I'm talking about King James, reigning SBK champ (not chump), and indubitably one of us. Not that you would know it from some of the astonishingly personal poison pe...
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Gordon Ritchie Column - Mar 2006
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/03/2006 14:59:17
Knock, knock. Who's there?
Knock, knock. Who's there?When is a MotoGP rider not a MotoGP rider? When he gets a job in World Superbikes.Quite often this means 'in World Superbikes again', but just sometimes it means becoming one for the first time.It's happened before, of course, but not in any great number...
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Gordon Ritchie Column - Jan 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/01/2005 13:01:22
Great Ducati debate
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /The World Superbike Ducati cull continues apace, with the realisation that virtually no one aside from the factory team is about to equip themselves with Ducatis for 2005. ...
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Gordon Ritchie Column - Feb 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/02/2005 15:05:51
The Return of the King
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /By the time Troy Corser starts the 2005 season he will be a true SBK long player. Other than a couple of dalliances in the AMA and Grand Prix paddocks, Corser has been a tr...
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Gordon Ritchie Column - Mar 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/03/2005 16:09:12
Ruling classes
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /Every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction, in the world of physics at least. In the less predictable world of international motorsports, the same can be said, at le...
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Gordon Ritchie Column - Apr 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/04/2005 17:57:39
World of sport
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /Okay heathens, get your prayer mats out. It's time to offer thanks to those demonic deities responsible for bringing us the R1 and 999, Fireblade, GSX-R1000 and ZX-10R. Tha...
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Gordon Ritchie Column - May 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/05/2005 19:01:10
Came, soy and conquered
height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /Well, who would have thought that Japanese jet-boy Yukio Kagayama would have stood a chance of cracking a SBK nut during his first weekend in SBK employ? Well, lots of peop...
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