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First Person: Roger Simmons, Suzuki GB
By Visordown on 20/10/2010 13:04:22
He knows his way around a swear word or two, he's Suzuki GB's head mechanic and former European development rider from 1982 to 2005.
that.Suzuki's demo-bike workshop, motocross team and race team were all in the same building then, and the Grand Prix shop was up the road. That's where they built the Heron Grand Prix Project 500 GP bike, the carbon-fibre framed RG500 racebike. I
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20 Questions... James Whitham
By Harriet Ridley on 24/10/2007 15:55:08
TV personality and 1993 British Superbike Champ
ride if money (or job!) were no object?An MK1 RG500 or Yam TZ700. What's your favourite stretch of asphalt?The Kinlochleven road near Loch Leven.What is the best thing you ever did on a motorcycle?Earn my living.What is the maddest thing you ever did
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When Mackenzie met Schwantz
By Niall Mackenzie on 11/08/2010 17:12:38
Niall Mackenzie interviews former team-mate and 1993 500 Grand Prix Champion Kevin Schwantz
on the GSX-R750.He was lanky, he was blond and we were both testing the last of the square-four Suzuki RG500s and both desperate to get into 500 GPs. I guess that's why we were polite to each other, but wary of one another too. But we both made the grade
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Jeremy Burgess interview
By Visordown on 26/05/2010 15:09:43
Jeremy Burgess is Valentino Rossi's crew chief at Fiat Yamaha. Nobody knows more about what it takes to win a Grand Prix
in the shed at night dreaming about going faster. I think it helped me a lot to get a job at Suzuki in 1980. Suzuki knew me from when I raced in Australia and I had an RG500, and mine was always fast and ran all weekend at race meetings.Did your racing help
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