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Bike Icon: Kawasaki KR-1
By Harriet Ridley on 22/10/2010 10:44:42
Looking like it had been waved out of pitlane and on to the road, the KR-1 arrived in a puff of blue smoke back in 1988
by unleashing their tandem twin KR250 road bike, which only two years later came fitted with powervalves and the letter 'S' after its KR250 designation. Sadly, neither of these models saw our shores as an official import. But the later KR-1 did.By the late '80s
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The story of Akrapovic
By Bertie Simmonds on 07/01/2011 13:06:52
From a shed in Slovenia, Igor Akrapovic's exhausts now dominate the world
with engines and develop exhausts for them.Officially setting up in 1990, Igor was joined in 1992 by Slavko Trstenjak (pronounce his name Slough-co!), an electrician with a similar aptitude for tinkering and tuning, while Marko Adamic joined as sales manager a
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Continental Sport Attack
By Simon 'Jim' Bowen on 01/09/2005 20:07:25
Conti may lurk in the shadows of the mighty Michelin and Pirelli, but their SportAttack tyres are set to be big contenders
on top of my bike - then going for a top speed blast and you get the picture.I'm pleased to say that once more the tyres remained utterly composed. Okay, I'm officially impressed now but the proof of the pudding comes with a back-to-back test on home soil
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Orange County - KTM's hi-tech factory
By Jon Urry on 17/06/2008 14:51:06
Think KTM is simply a small Austrian firm that makes off-road bikes? Think again, the boys in orange are setting their sights on European domination
-road segment. Not bad for a company that was officially bust 16 years ago...Yes, although the firm was founded in 1953 by Mr Kronreif and Mr Trunkenpoltz and based in Mattighofen (hence KTM) it stopped producing bikes (and radiators, mopeds and bicycles
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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
, and the official test launch in September (with the bikes in showrooms by October), will prove just how much better the new model is. But for now, we have this - a fancy model introduction in Italy.And a curious do it was. Set in the Cinetta film studios ('Gangs
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Valentino Rossi History and Facts
By Visordown on 18/07/2010 13:44:03
Information and history on the Italian multiple MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi riding for Ducati in 2011
and is Rossi gay?More information available at the official Valentino Rossi website and on the Rossi wiki.
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Michelin Pilot Power tyre review
By Simon Bowen on 14/10/2006 12:50:27
Pilot Power, that is. New dual compound sport rubber released
to see what the fuss was about. The track was ours for the day - just as the MotoGP circus rolled into town to set up for an official three-day test, ready to make us look like a bunch of monkeys on mopeds.Randy Mamola was on hand for advice so I asked
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Dirty Work
By Tom Higham on 28/01/2011 12:19:23
On a trip to the South Coast this week I was invited to meet the team behind a bright pink bike cleaner
they give to the Rizla Suzuki MotoGp team, the Dixon Yamaha MX team and also as an official supplier to the Force India F1 team, ensuring they all keep shining for the cameras.The company also supports the local bike meets at Poole Quay, which take place
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Choppers to Newquay - A lads weekend
By Andy Stevens on 13/07/2011 16:34:11
We take two "available from a dealer near you" choppers for a cruise down South
of this extreme style we could find available to buy through an official UK motorcycle dealership.After a trip to the respective dealers, we collected the thumping loud and shiny V-twins and pretty much from the off the bikes were getting stares and smiles from
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What’s MotoGP ever done for us?
By Bertie Simmonds on 30/04/2010 12:21:11
How comparable is a £3 million MotoGP weapon to your sportsbike? Since 2002 technology has filtered down from the best teams in the world, more so than you might imagine
When MotoGP arrived in 2002, the official line was that the old two-strokes were dinosaurs: anachronisms in titanium and carbon-fibre with little bearing on what we rode on the street. ‘Win on Sunday, sell on Monday’ was a popular marketing slogan
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