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WSB Calendar: 2013 World Superbikes provisional schedule
By Visordown News on 06/12/2012 09:28:00
World Superbikes calendar containing all the dates and schedules for the 2013 season
THIS YEAR'S WSB championship will be a 15-round season, as the franchise enters it's 26th year.The 2013 championship will get underway at Phillip Island in Australia, as is tradition. New additions to the schedule are Buddh International Circuit in India, Jerez in Spain, and mayb...
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Gossip: Hayden to World Superbikes
By Visordown News on 17/07/2012 14:40:29
Rumours have started but the Kentucky Kid quashes them pretty fast
RUMOURS are flying around that Nicky Hayden will be racing in the Superbike World Championship next year, but the Ducati MotoGP rider has quickly stepped in to counter them.Hayden, the 2006 MotoGP World Champion, is currently without a renewed
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2013 British Superbike championship calendar
By Visordown News on 11/10/2012 15:50:12
Assen stays on the 2013 calendar
THE 2013 British Superbike Championship calendar dates have been announced by series promoters MSVR. The 2013 calendar will again comprise of 12 rounds and 26 races, across eight UK circuits as well as the round at Assen, in Holland. The season
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Production version of 218mph electric superbike
By Visordown News on 11/09/2012 09:00:58
Record-breaker spawns road-going bike
BRITISH designer Glynn Kerr has drawn up the styling for a road-going version of Lightning Motors' electric racer – current holder of the world speed record for electric bikes.The Lightning machine, which also races in the TTXGP series and won at Le Mans last Friday, is to be tur...
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Superbikes centre stage at auction
By Visordown News on 12/09/2012 09:39:41
Bonhams sells collection
BONHAMS' auction on October 21 at the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show in Stafford is centred around a huge collection of bikes from the estate of the late Evan Aled Jenkins.Jenkins, a dentist from Gloucester, built up the collection from some of the most desirable machines of t...
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Carl Fogarty & Aaron Slight on the science of superbike racing
By Christopher Dodd on 09/10/2012 11:35:35
Educational mid-ninties TV...
IN A slightly bizarre turn of events, a young Eamonn Holmes turns to Carl Fogarty and Aaron Slight to explain the science getting your knee down. Filmed for forgotten mid-ninties BBC program 'How Do They Do That?', this explanatory video is actually a very good watch. Some great ...
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1994 Kawasaki ZX-7: ThunderChunky
By Ben Cope on 16/10/2012 13:15:40
Milspec Japanese superbike
This is ThunderChunky. What do you think to it? It's motorcycle clothing manufacturer, Icon's project, designed to go hand-in-hand with their Icon 1000 clothing collection.This 1994 ZX-7 has been given a military-look and features heavy-duty headlight protecting bars around the h...
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Ducati 1199 Panigale vs. Porsche 911 GT2 RS
By Ben Cope on 25/07/2012 22:03:37
We pitch superbike against supercar. Who comes out on top?
It's the ultimate motor-geek's pub debate: what's quicker, a superbike or a supercar? We attempted to answer this by pitching the incredibly quick Porsche 911 GT2 RS, against the mighty-rapid Ducati 1199 S Tricolore. Both as it happens, are about
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Become a Ducati grid girl at Silverstone
By Visordown on 23/08/2012 16:42:50
Visordown has teamed up with Ducati to find 12 grid girls for the Silverstone British Superbikes round
DO YOU want to experience life as a grid girl?We've teamed up with Ducati to offer 12 girls a VIP pass to be a grid girl for the 848 Challenge, British Superbikes at Silverstone on the 30th of September.You'll have lunch in the Ducati hospitality
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Shane Turpin on the 848 at Cadwell
By Visordown News on 22/08/2012 10:53:53
American Superbike star to take on the 848 Challenge
AMA rider and World Superbike wildcard, Shane 'Tornado' Turpin will be riding the 848 Challenge VIP bike this weekend at Cadwell Park.Turpin is an experienced AMA rider and raced as a wildcard at this year’s World Superbike event at Miller
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