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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?
attention to what kind of pasta Capirossi was having, and worrying about how I was going to get a whopping receipt smothered in Japanese symbols through the next round of expenses. Some time later I was told that this very meeting was the first that aired
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Sand Rovers: The Moroccan desert
By Oli Tennent on 09/08/2010 10:14:05
The vast Moroccan desert exerts an eerie, wholly other-worldly charm. Even for that notoriously unappreciative tourist Oli Tennent
.It’s only when you get on a motorcycle that a new country comes to meet you. Only when you’re open to the elements can the smells, taste and noise of daily life filter into your consciousness. And so it is with Morocco.The plan is to investigate the trails
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Racing heavyweights: Europe v Japan
By John Hogan on 01/04/2010 11:13:25
Since the middle of the last century motorcycle racing has been dominated by these two heavyweights. With the most explosive race seasons in living memory upon us, who’s top dog?
them together so they interlocked: “Perfect fit”.Now imagine the first meeting at Yamaha headquarters after the MotoGP regs were announced. Do you seriously think anyone suggested an engine layout other than an in-line four? Would the marketing people
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The story behind the revamped 2008 Hayabusa
By John Hogan on 21/06/2010 11:43:44
After nine years waiting, Suzuki unveiled their all-new Hayabusa in 2008. Promising 198bhp and the fastest acceleration of any production superbike, we spoke to the team of people who put it together
will open that up."Iio-San didn't care to mention tightening emission regulations in the same breath, but it's also clear that the original 'Busa doesn't meet Euro 3, so here in Europe at least, legal necessity can also be viewed as a prompt to the update
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Sidecarcross - Guaranteed Danger
By Warren Pole on 19/10/2010 10:21:20
Sidecar cross is Ben Hur minus the horses. Just add fearsome 100bhp 750cc two-strokes instead. Surely the best chance to lose Wozza forever?
plane to Holland to meet Carlo Van Duijnhoven, Dutch and World Championship sidecar pilot par excellence, and the man to whom I was going to entrust my life for a weekend's racing at the Veldhoven circuit.Carlo seemed normal enough but when he fired up
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Reader's Rides: Cumbria
By Visordown on 29/11/2010 14:17:32
According to reader Jeremy Storey these are the best motorcycle roads around Cumbria
. At the next junction turn right, and follow the road along the side of Carrock Fell.Straight through Mungrisdale and carry on until you meet the A66 - and just check those views.Turn left onto the A66 then right onto the A5091 signed to Ullswater.This road has
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Jet and Rent: South Africa by motorcycle
By Barry Tavner on 21/10/2010 15:38:59
Think South Africa is too far away to go explore? You can fly there and rent a motorcycle. We did
across one 4x4 and, strangely, a guy on a bicycle who stops to chat.As we both sit at the side of the road and soak up the expanse of endless valleys that lay in front of us, he opens the conversation. “Afternoon. Fancy meeting you here,” he says
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Dougie Lampkin - The most talented biker...
By Mark Forsyth on 26/08/2003 11:57:05
Probably. But it's unlikely that you'll hear no-nonsense Yorkshireman and eleven-time World Trials champ Dougie Lampkin making a big noise about it
," says Dougie, matter of factly. "As I was growing upI was always at trials meetings. When I got old enough to help there was my dad Martin and then cousin John to support so it was really just a way of life." There's nothing surer than inevitability
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The 12 motorcycles that matter
By Visordown on 22/11/2011 12:35:55
We wouldn't be where we are today without these twelve bikes that changed history and in doing so, reached the coveted status of icon
GSX-R1100 here.Yamaha FZR750R OW01Where Honda led, others followed. Enter Yamaha's wannabe RC30-beater, the OW01. Read about the Yamaha FZR750R OW01 here.Kawasaki ZXR750The Kawasaki ZXR750 was lean, mean and best in green, meet the best-looking mass
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The Boator-Cycle Disaster
By Mark Graham on 03/11/2010 17:00:10
The tragic truths of the pioneering days before British two-wheeled supremacy
-Cycle's sea trials in 1937.A large crowd had gathered along the banks of the London Riviera as a naval tugboat steamed upstream from the Royal Naval Dockyards at Chatham to meet Commander Pygmy at the Teddington lock slipway with sealed orders to tow him out
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