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Bike Icon: Suzuki RGV250
By Warren Pole on 16/09/2010 16:05:22
1989 was a vintage year for hoodlum teenagers worldwide because this was the year Suzuki unleashed the RGV250, the purest and most race-bred two-stroke track tool ever to make it into a showroom
look bang on.For just over three grand you got the fattest aluminium beam frame yet seen on a production bike and a host of other pukka race-bred features like the underslung rear caliper and beefy race swingarm.You also got sleek, crisp lines
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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
good are they really? I mean how would they fare against their finest racing counterparts? What I'm getting at is how wide is the gulf between the 600s in our showrooms, and the ones tearing up the British Championship week after week
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Road V Race - Superbikes
By Warren Pole on 08/12/2003 11:31:46
How does a roadbike become a BSB contender, and how different are they? We find out
slice of BSB pie should the fancy take you.Obviously we all know the showroom superbikes and the ones lining up on the BSB grids are different beasts, regardless of the fact both started life as the same machines, and we all know this difference
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vertiGO - Timmer electric motorcycle concept
By Ben Cope on 08/07/2009 14:48:36
Electric bikes are evolving fast and here to stay. We take a look at a university student's impressive vision of the future
and simple drive belt and the achingly beautiful seat unit. The irony is that elements of this design will probably be used in future petrol powered motorcycles way before we walk in to a showroom to buy an electric bike. And when we do go to buy an electric
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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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The bikes that time forgot
By Warren Pole on 21/09/2010 11:13:04
These four bikes were meant to turn motorcycling on its head but they never did. Wozza dons his rose-tinted goggles to ponder why
and onward through Suzuki GSX-R750s, Honda FireBlades, Ducati 916s and the like, to arrive smugly and satisfyingly in the present day where an array of stunning machinery is waiting to greet us in any showroom we care to visit.But the problem with history
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TT Centenary: 100 years on the gas
By Jonathan Bentman on 13/05/2007 11:46:17
The TT is more than just a hairy, scary motorcycle race. It's a celebration of biking, an island-bound two-wheeled world where nothing else matters but motorcycling
going motorcycles, to this day it remains the same test - that blur of HM Plant Honda whipping along Sulby Straight at over 200mph, it's much closer to the Fireblade in your local Honda dealer's showroom than you may think.Along the way, as well
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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
, the purest and most race-bred two-stroke track tool ever to make it into a showroom. Read about the Suzuki RGV250 here.Suzuki GT750Think 750cc, think Suzuki. The GT750 is thee bike that kicked it all off way back in 1972. Somebody put the kettle on... Read
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Retro Race to the Bol d'Or
By Jon Bentman on 16/01/2011 16:55:31
Back in the day the Bol d'Or was THE end-of-summer ride out. Using retro-repros Visordown recreates the experience: twins and twin-shocks to the Bol. Let the slipstreaming begin!
to get there after all) but reproductions of the beasts of old.The arrival of Ducati's GT1000 (in British showrooms) coincided with the trip. Just as well, as none of us could see ourselves lasting a full 900 miles on the existing SportClassics - the 1000
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Three And A Half Grand Secondhand Steel
By Jon Urry on 14/10/2007 15:22:12
With the unlikely premise of £3500 fast burning holes in their pockets, four TWO teamsters are buying second-hand steel. It's head v hearts all the way
of your mates. Buy a pup and you'll be ridiculed for ever and a day - and be feeling the financial loss.Quite why that placed four TWO staff in DK Motorcycles' super-showroom of a cold winter's morning we don't know, but they were, each shelling out a
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