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BMW's Motorcycle Racing History
By Roland Brown on 23/04/2010 16:21:43
When BMW entered World Superbikes last season you’d be forgiven for thinking that the German marque had never started a race before, let alone won any. The reality is rather different
). Here’s a look at BMW’s racing hits, plus what’s to come in the next couple of years...Click next as Visordown plots BMW's racing history
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Meet the family - Kawasaki Z900
By Visordown on 14/06/2010 15:08:33
The Z900 was a memorable moment in Kawasaki's history as one of the motorcycling milestones of the past fifty years
’s one and 903cc to Honda’s 736cc, the Zed offered more of everything.As the advertising blurb had it: ‘We created the Kawasaki Z900 for expert riders who want to move up to a bigger, stronger motorcycle.’It was speed tested at 132mph – enough to render
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The story of the Honda CBR600 (1987 to 2007)
By Bertie Simmonds on 06/02/2007 11:10:33
When doomsday comes, history will only record one motorcycle in the all-time hall of fame: the CBR600. Now in its 20th year, we chart the success of a biking icon
1987 to 1990 CBR600 (FH/FJ/FK/FL)And so it was born. The 'jelly mould' fairing hid a steel frame, an inline four of 598cc with 16 valves and 70-80bhp, good for a top speed just shy of 150mph. Around 10bhp up and, at 182 kilos, more than 10 kilos down on Kawasaki's then shit-hot G...
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TT Century: 100 Years of the Tourist Trophy
By Stuart Barker on 13/05/2007 12:36:28
Begun as a harsh test of production machinery, the TT's 100 years of history are about more than mere motorcycles. The story is of the men who rode them, and the greatest racing tales ever told
in popularity until WW1 interrupted, but when the TT returned in 1920 it went from strength to strength. In a time before Grand Prix there was no better way to demonstrate the speed and robustness of a motorcycle.The 1930s produced the first TT superstar
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Barry Sheene's penultimate race
By Don Morley on 28/02/2009 16:12:04
Photographer Don Morley shot motorcycles for over 50 years. Every month, we dip into Don’s archive as he talks in his own words about the pictures that made history
after final practice. He announced his retirement the next race. The truth is Barry and myself didn’t get on well. It all stemmed from a story I did in 1977 in Motorcycle Racer called ‘The Yanks are Coming.’ The talent in America at that time
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Don Morley's Exposure - Paul Ricard French GP
By Don Morley on 07/09/2009 17:29:40
Photographer Don Morley shot motorcycles for over 50 years. Every month, we dip into Don’s archive as he talks in his own words about the pictures that made history
I was standing on the last corner at Paul Ricard for the French GP. I’d been shooting on the back of the track during most of the race but had this weird feeling that Randy Mamola, who was on fire that season, was going to do something on the last lap. I can’t explain it any bett...
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The Six Sexiest Bimotas
By Roland Brown on 20/12/2010 11:04:40
Their business history may be erratic and their electronics legendarily so, but the one thing Bimota have always been able to do is bolt together a damn fine-looking motorcycle. Here’s the six sexiest bikes they ever built.
of the financial holes into which it has stumbled throughout its history. This time it was the 500 Vdue, powered by Bimota’s revolutionary “clean-burning” direct-injection two-stroke engine. The V-twin refused to run, properly, had to be recalled and bankrupted
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Motorcycle Radar: 1986
By Roland Brown on 17/11/2010 16:49:50
Journalist Roland Brown has ridden everything that’s walked or crawled in the last 30 years. Here he looks back at the bikes that defined 1986
SUZUKI GSX-R1100The GSX-R1100 didn’t merely outclass all the other open-class superbikes on its launch in 1986; it demolished them. A year after Suzuki had changed motorcycling forever with the first aluminium-framed race-replica four, the GSX-R750
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Motorcycle Radar: 1977
By Roland Brown on 16/11/2010 16:59:51
Wise road tester Roland Brown looks back at the years that changed biking.
If you’re old enough to remember 1977 it might not seem that long ago: Elvis died, Microsoft was founded, and the Space Shuttle flew into action. But the bike world was very different. Laverda’s Jota ruled the roads, Sheene was the world’s best rider, and Suzuki and Yamaha launch...
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Motorcycle Radar: 1981
By Roland Brown on 23/11/2010 15:39:10
International roadtester and motorcycling sage Roland Brown looks back at the years that changed motorcycling over the decades
1981Back in ’81 most superbikes were just as they had been for more than a decade: big, naked air-cooled fours with high bars and twin shocks. We loved them that way too, of course, despite the wobbles and the neck ache. Revolution was in the air, with fairings, liquid-cooling an...
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