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Motorcycle Radar: 1987
By Roland Brown on 06/12/2010 14:04:17
Roland Brown is a world class swordsman, entertainer, poet, scientist, boxer, ladies' man and motorcycle journalist. Only one of those is true.
would become the world's most popular bike, comprehensively justifying Honda's decision to end their love affair with V4 engines.18bhp excessMy scariest motorcycling moment of 1987 came while testing the humble Enfield Bullet 350. The 1950s
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UK motorcycle club racing calendar by circuit
By Visordown on 11/04/2012 09:59:45
2012 motorcycle club racing circuits and dates
April 14-15 Derby PhoenixMay 6-7 CMRCJune 23-24 BemseeJune 30 - July 1 Derby PhoenixJuly 14-15 HottraxJuly 28-29 NG Road RacingAugust 18-19 BemseeSeptember 15-16 HottraxSeptember 22-23 Thundersport GBOctober 13-14 Derby PhoenixCastle CombeSeptember 1 NG
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Tyre Launch: Bridgestone BT-012ss
By Warren Pole on 11/07/2002 13:11:14
Review of the Bridgestone BT-012ss tyre from the Almeria circuit
for the launch of Bridgestone's new BT-012ss tyres. For this event the ever-hospitable Bridgestone boys had laid on the Almeria circuit and a brace of the finest 600-1,000cc superbikes for us to play with and - even better - they'd slotted the whole deal into a
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On patrol with the Met police
By John Cantlie on 07/04/2010 13:36:27
Traffic police; possibly the most feared and misunderstood creatures on the roads of Britain. Visordown went on patrol with the Metropolitan division to find out what it really means to be a traffic cop
as we used to. Since 1999 the number of traffic officers in the London area has decreased from over 1,000 to just 690 today.There are five garages serving the entire London area, the capital being sliced up into quarters with the M25 as the boundary
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Bridgestone BT-002 review
By Jon Urry on 15/10/2006 10:17:52
Bridgestone launches its new Racing Street tyres - road-legal rubber aimed predominantly at track day riders in search of serious grip
in them, and certainly enough for a few more track days.For fast track riding and very occasional road use the Racing Streets are certainly worth trying.BT-002 Racing Streets are available in 120/70-17 fronts and 180/55-17, 190/50-17 and, later in the year
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One Fine Day
By Jon Urry on 28/03/2008 17:49:37
To discover the best 10-mile stretch of road anywhere in the UK you have to go to Loch Leven in Scotland. But it's worth the ride. We whipped the brand new Street Triple, the manic KTM690SM and the glorious GSX-R750K7 into a frenzy
/ATOP SPEED - N/A0-60 - n/aTANK RANGE - N/ASuzuki TYPE - SUPERSPORTSPRODUCTION DATE - 2007PRICE NEW - £7949ENGINE CAPACITY - 749ccPOWER - 133.2bhp@11,500rpmTORQUE - 66.5lb.ft@8700rpmWEIGHT - 163kgSEAT HEIGHT - 810mmFUEL CAPACITY - N/ATOP SPEED - N/A0-60 - n
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Road V Race - Supersport
By Warren Pole on 05/11/2003 14:40:32
Road and race 600 supersport bikes face-off
route you would have been in the distinctly pleasant quandary of having to choose from the creamiest 600cc crop we've been treated to in a long time.The new CBR600 blazed out of the blocks at the tail end of '02 with the sauciest looks Honda have
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Getting your ACU licence on an MSV trackday
By Ben Cope on 18/04/2011 22:03:40
There's a new way to get your ACU licence and it's simpler than you might think
. There's a lot to take in but if you've done a fair few trackdays, it'll feel very familiar.After the briefing session, we were handed an 18 question multiple choice test. It took me around 10 minutes to fill it out. It's reassuring to know that when you
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What's MotoGP ever done for us? Pt.2
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/05/2010 12:52:33
Following on from looking into how Grand Prix racing has revolutionised the very bikes we ride, here’s how the riding kit the fastest racers on the planet wear has shaped what we use today
mates actually mean that a while later the kit we wear has improved quantifiably? Barry Sheene’s era in the 1970s and 1980s saw some big leaps forward in protection – notably for Barry himself – while on the road most of us just wore a crash helmet (‘cos
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Tyre Launch: Dunlop Qualifier II
By Bertie Simmonds on 24/07/2009 15:18:01
RoadSmart meets Qualifier – Dunlop’s fast road & track tyre
of the corner, cranked over, that these tyres impressed. Although I get my knee down, I’ve never been one for a lot of lean angle, but these tyres encourage you to lean it further, so much so that the peg went down on the R1 and GSX-R1000 swiftly followed by my
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