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Remember Microprose's GP500?
By Ben Cope on 31/01/2012 11:16:58
The ultimate GP500 setup.
Remember GP500? Still to this day the best motorcycle racing sim, I reckon. If you're on a budget, you can grab a copy for your PC and relive the old days. There's a fairly large community of fans who've grafted updated bikes into the game so you
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Freddie Spencer's '85 Honda NSR500 GP bike gallery
By Ben Cope on 18/06/2009 16:25:51
Honda's legendary GP500 won 8 out of 12 rounds of the World Championship, ridden by fast Freddie Spencer
' 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
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Schwantz at his best?
By Ben Cope on 27/04/2012 12:52:55
Classic scrap involving the usual suspects; some all-time greats
There are countless magic moments from Kevin Schwantz's career, not least his '93 championship but is this scrap with Doohan (not to mention Rainey and Kocinski) one of his best last laps?
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Sights from Spa Bikers' Classics: Yamaha GP Museum
By Ben Cope on 08/07/2011 09:32:20
A super-strength hit of Yamaha's GP history. How many can you name?
Yamaha put on an amazing display of their GP bikes, past and present at the Bikers' Days Classics at Spa. So how many bikes can you name? Bonus points if you get the year and the rider.P.S if your name's Julian Ryder, Neil Spalding or Toby Moody, you're not allowed to enter.Clue:...
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Simon Crafar: Let's get back to great racing
By Ben Cope on 14/02/2012 14:33:32
He fought the factory bikes on a satellite Yamaha and won. Simon Crafar on why CRTs are the future, the easy way to go faster on track and how he'd change Superbike racing for the better
Simon Crafar rose to fame in Grand Prix motorcycle racing, beating Mick Doohan in GP500s on a satellite Yamaha. He's still heavily involved in motorcycle racing and helps coach rising talent in European and World Superbike circles. He's the man
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Moto2 is winning me over. Slowly.
By Ben Cope on 27/07/2009 16:21:15
We're luddites when it comes to embracing the replacement class for the GP250s, but these latest pics have got me kinda excited
themselves are tiny and the pictures show young-gun Alex Espargaro on the Promo Racing Moto2 bike and 1999 500cc GP500 World Champ Alex Criville on the Blusens Moto2.As long as the top 10 are split by 2 seconds halfway through the race, I'll be happy. It
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