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I Love The 90s
By Stuart Barker on 04/11/2010 09:39:01
Choose a FireBlade. Choose a Ducati 916. Choose born-again bikers, track days, Mick Doohan and Carl Fogarty. Choose the 1990s.
in this market), parallels were bikes bought cheaply from source and imported through unofficial channels. This obviously got up the noses of the official importers who all of a sudden had to find ways to justify charging several grand more for their 'official
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Bike Icon: Yamaha RD400
By Stuart Barker on 26/10/2010 17:23:27
Post RD350 and pre RD350LC there was the RD400. Cool doesn't even come close
the factory to re-tool in order to produce it.The new machine also featured a rubber-mounted engine to reduce vibration as well as new wheels and brakes. The engine was also moved forward in a bid to reduce the bike's tendency to wheelie but, happily
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Bad Boy No.6: Jason Lawrence
By Stuart Barker on 07/12/2010 15:17:27
Top AMA Supercross racer sentenced to one year in prison during 2009 for two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of battery with serious bodily injury, and one count of mayhem
then and the defence of his title was marred by controversy. On February 4, 2009, he was handed a two-race ban by AMA racing officials after being involved in a fight with some other Supercross competitors. Lawrence was already on probation following an earlier ruling
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History of the Superbike: 1969 - 2001
By Stuart Barker on 15/09/2001 11:53:56
Detailing the history of the superbike from the Honda CB750 in 1969 to 2001's ground-breaking Suzuki GSX-R1000
relating to bikes, from those mentioned above to your granny just saying you're bike looks 'super.'So, in the absence of an official dictionary definition (the word isn't listed in the English dictionary), let's make our own for the purpose of this feature
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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
with setting the first 100mph lap of the Mountain course (which had first been used in its full form in 1920) in 1955 before the timekeepers downgraded his time to 99.97mph. The honour of setting the first official 100mph lap therefore went to Bob McIntyre on a
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The trials & tribulations of Foggy Petronas
By Stuart Barker on 09/01/2008 14:57:49
At the end of this season Team Foggy Petronas will be no more. After five years the team still hasn't won a WSB race and the FP1 road bike has yet to go on general sale. So what went wrong?
. But money talks and Foggy soon attracted the signatures of James Haydon and Troy Corser.A significantly larger problem was in working out how to build the 75 road-going bikes required to homologate the FP1 (Foggy Petronas 1) for racing. At the official team
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