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Rossi: Honda V5 was 'a missile'
By Visordown News on 09/04/2010 11:07:50
MotoGP World Champ reminisces about his years in the 990cc class
IN AN exclusive interview with roadracerx.com MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi has said his Honda RC211 V5 MotoGP bike, which took the Italian to the 2003 and 2004 championships, was 'a missile'.Asked about his time at Honda, and in particular
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Face Off - Mackenzie V Hislop
By Stuart Barker on 23/04/2010 09:45:54
In 1998 the fiercest battle between two team-mates took place in British Superbikes. Niall Mackenzie and Steve Hislop set the racing scene alight with their increasingly vicious clashes
“Now we know the rules - there aren’t any.”Niall Mackenzie was not a happy man. Usually one of the most jovial riders in the paddock, his brow was clearly furrowed in the post-race interview. It was Oulton Park, 1998, the second leg of the second
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Motorcycle Radar: 1990
By Roland Brown on 24/11/2010 15:58:06
1990 was a mixed year for motorcycling. Remember the Laverda Navarro?
-profile ‘Brit revivals’ fail) by saying he liked a challenge and liked engineering. “Make the most of this interview,” said the publicity-shy Bloor, “because you won’t be getting another.” Despite my requests since, he’s stuck to his word to this day
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First Person: Tori Sorby - Manx resident
By Visordown on 20/10/2010 11:49:48
Mum of two Tori has lived on the Isle of Man for nearly all her life. This is her view on the TT that comes to her homeland once a year
AS OUR ISLAND is invaded by leather and metal every summer, most of the residents are thrown into a state of near panic. Some escape to faraway places, renting out their pads to pay for their trip. But not me. I'm here for the duration and the build-up, not the main event, is the...
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First Person - Fazer Family
By Flys are down on 26/11/2010 11:11:51
While there’s nothing unusual about a family holiday to France, a couple of Fazers isn’t the obvious choice of wheels. Reader Rod Shaw doesn’t regret it one bit
It was a last minute decision to take a holiday on the bikes with the boys. We looked at package holidays to beaches but my sons Cameron, 12, and Tobias, 8, wanted an adventure and my wife Nova felt the same. In three days, the trip was organised and the boys were thrilled at the...
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The Designer of the KTM RC8: Gerald Kiska
By Gerald Kiska on 18/02/2008 15:47:56
From the concept drawing board to the street, Gerald Kiska sculpted the KTM RC8
“The RC8 was inspired by KTM’s off-road bikes. I tried to bring the design language that I developed for their off-road bikes to the street market. The approach was a simple one, we tried to take the elements we used in the off-road bikes and transfer them to the on-road ones. Th...
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Versys 1000: 5 questions to the engineers
By Ben Cope on 08/12/2011 08:56:21
We put five questions to the team behind Kawasaki's new all-roads tourer
At the launch of Kawasaki's Versys 1000, I sat down with the bike's engineers to ask them a few questions about its development route; why it's got four cylinders instead of two, the reasons for traction control and the potential options that didn't make it to the bike.1. Does it...
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The future. But we can't have it
By Ben Cope on 10/11/2011 14:21:37
Less kids are getting into motorcycling. Why are there so few decent small capacity bikes?
? That's more like it.In a recent interview with Masanori Aoki, the father of Honda's NSR250 MC28, the CBR400 and a whole host of 'pocket rockets' he shrugged off the chances of a new supersports 400 appearing any time soon, saying that while people
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Crown Jewels - AGV Helmets
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/10/2003 09:05:35
So just how do Italian helmet manufacturers AGV protect the most precious head in motorcycle racing? Bertie headed to Italy to find out making a helmet for Valentino Rossi must be akin to trying to make a crown fit for a king
right at the end just as you realise you're at the end of an interview and are obviously running out of your hosts' hospitality.So, as I passed the giant AGV Rossi replica outside the factory at Spinetta Marengo, I kept this question under my hat. So
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A truce between Biaggi and Rossi
By Visordown News on 26/04/2011 16:24:08
Max Biaggi admits his appreciation for Valentino Rossi
as colliding with Sete to win at Jerez.Despite this Gibernau does not hold this against Valentino, who in an interview with GP One says he owes a lot to: “He is great, maybe the greatest ever, and nobody can take away what he has already achieved. Despite
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