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Ultimate Trackbike 2: Dunlop's GSX-R1000
By Visordown News on 20/01/2011 10:51:38
Live out your NW200 fantasies in the Fast Group of your next trackday
raced at the Cookstown 100, North West 200, Isle of Man TT and Ulster Grand Prix as well as a handful of national Irish road races.The bike has been thoroughly maintained and everything it has needed it's got. Oil and filter changed after every race
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Advanced Motorcycle Riding Course: Relax
By Andy Morrison on 20/10/2010 10:24:44
Visordown’s tame riding guru Andy Morrison starts with the very fundamentals of brilliant riding: the need to be relaxed
imperfections bumps and cambers if it is to remain on the chosen line. If you need proof of this look no further than onboard camera footage from the Isle of Man TT. If the rider tried to physically control these oscillations his bike would become uncontrollable
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Retro File: 1992 Honda Fireblade CBR900RR
By Jon Urry on 24/09/2010 16:34:51
For too long superbikes were about nothing but power. Then, in 1992, Honda launched the FireBlade and laid down the template for the modern sportsbike. Now the RR-N is a hugely desirable classic performance bike
of Man TT twice on future generations of the bike.The final twist in the project’s history is the origin of the bike’s now legendary name. A botched translation into Japanese of the French word for lightning gave birth to the name FireBlade. But in 1992
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Padgetts Honda signs Scassa, Lowry
By Visordown News on 15/02/2012 09:13:52
Italian joins BSB's most successful rookie for the 2012 season
of Man TT.Click here for the 2012 British Superbikes calendar
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James Whitham Scrapbook: Part One
By James Whitham on 06/06/2011 11:44:27
A life in comedy photographs
Don’t know what was going on with the bum-fluff on my chin. I may have been going through a stage of trying to look cool with a bit of designer stubble... your guess is as good as mine on this one!This was my third ever outing in the Isle of Man. It
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Make a Date for Beaulieu
By Tim Skilton on 13/06/2007 09:06:25
Motorcycle extravaganza on 23rd and 24th June
. Visitors to Motorcycle World will be the first to see an exhibition celebrating 100 years of the Isle of Man TT, featuring images from a unique collection of TT races of the 1920s & 30s, owned by the late Graham Walker, first motorcycle curator
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Jamie Whitham Column - Sep 2007
By Jamie Whitham on 01/09/2007 16:46:05
James attempts to kick start World War III with a bit of drain pipe, hair spray and a bag of spuds as Huddersfield's answer to Rambo takes on the German hoards. Achtung, Spitfire!
devices I've seen for ages made it's first appearance in the Isle of Man. Shoey has constructed a 'potato cannon'. Made from a metre long piece of 50mm drain pipe, fuelled by hairspray or contact cleaner, and fired with one of those sparky things you get
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IOM TT: 2009 Superbike Race Results
By Visordown News on 09/06/2009 07:13:54
Lap records tumble as 2009 TT opener gets underway
RESULTS FROM this year's Isle of Man Superbike TT race are as follows:1 2 John McGuinness HM Plant Honda Racing 01 46 07.16 127.996 Silver 2 7 Steve Plater HM Plant Honda Racing 01 46 25.27 127.632 Silver3 8 Guy Martin Hydrex Honda Racing 01 46 59
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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
returning to Britain in 1996 while Hizzy had spent the early part of his career dominating the pure road racing scene, racking up 11 Isle of Man TT victories in the process. “I didn’t know Steve very well when he joined the team and I never really knew where
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James Whitham Column - Nov 09
By James Whitham on 27/11/2009 15:30:47
James takes an expensive trip down memory lane, an even pricier trip to Cyprus and realises that he’s perhaps not the best man in Huddersfield to preach road safety...
Huddersfield.From the coach on the way to the resort I’d noticed a rental place called “Isle of Man TT bikes” – this looked the very place for me while I left Andrea to read celebrity magazines and Ruby to play with her inflatable dolphin . Problem
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