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Gordon Ritchie Column - Jul 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/07/2005 10:50:46
World party
their Hondas, in the hands of Chili and Neukirchner, could fly almost as high as the winged eagles of the Ten Kate team. At Monza we moved away from Suzuki domination and got back to normal standards of World Superbike unpredictability. Yes, Corser won a race
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The X-Craft versus the V-fours
By Gordon Ritchie on 09/01/2008 13:32:33
Suzuki's GSX-R1000 is a super-competitive racing package but the same can't be said of the MotoGP GSV-R. Gordon Ritchie asks why
. This season, with Troy Corser rampaging across the World Superbike firmament like a yellow and purple bruise spreading across his rivals' faces, Suzuki will make a full set of major titles won with their GSX-R series, and in truly global terms. As recent
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Gordon Ritchie Column - May 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/05/2005 19:01:10
Came, soy and conquered
in the rest of you, the water's lovely), and please don't forget to bring some quick Brits with ya.Growing painsWith all the evidence of a much-improved World Superbike, there appears to have been one casualty. Or certainly a form of decimation in the Light
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Gordon Ritchie Column - Sep 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/09/2005 12:50:35
To win and win not
and the fleeting raceday on the pace garnered by Abe, Yamaha has struggled longest of the Superbike hordes. To us standing outside the direct ping of the big tuning fork there seem to be two main reasons for this, one technical, the other - shared with Kawasaki
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Made In Britain
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/09/2005 20:25:31
Britain can be considered, in many regards, as an epicentre of world racing. Come again?
brilliant at racing; names like Duke, Surtees, Hailwood, Read and Sheene making us still one of the best in the all-time lists of racing winners.It's been a long time since we had a World Champion in GPs, but in Superbike we've had far greater success. Four
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Gordon Ritchie Column - Nov 2005
By Gordon Ritchie on 01/11/2005 16:32:34
Regicide
-jerk British wrath. Not to put too fine a point on the toxic nib of the situation, James Toseland is fighting for his factory racing life, all the while coming under friendly fire from back home.Maybe he is just shy of being the best rider in World Superbike
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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
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MotoGP Evolution - Race tech to the road
By Gordon Ritchie on 30/03/2006 12:18:23
Four years on from the advent of MotoGP, and with the 800cc formula beckoning, there's just one thing missing: the trickle-down of race tech to street bikes. Why?
. It made sense in theory; unified development from the top down, keeping as much or as little MotoGP influence as you could afford in the roadbikes. Which would eventually become World Superbikes someday, pre-developed for racing to an unprecedented degree
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