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Team Hates: Eight intense team-mate rivalries
By Bertie Simmonds on 11/11/2010 11:36:45
It's a rule of thumb in racing that you have to beat your team-mate. And to beat him, you must employ every method at your disposal. Delve into the world of when the team-mate system goes wrong
It's a fact. Motorcycle racers are selfish, vain, greedy, guiltless people, who will swindle and cheat their own grannies to the top step of the podium. You need look no further than having two riders in the same team. Team-mates is the term, yet
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The White Helmets motorcycle display team
By John Hogan on 22/10/2010 11:37:08
The White Helmets display team have been entertaining kids at military tattoos for over 90 years. But in this day of psycho freestylers aren’t they just relics, a total anachronism?
on their motorbikes.20 years have since passed and I’m stood on the side of a windswept runway in Cornwall, watching the Royal Signals White Helmets display team running through a routine. I shouldn’t be impressed, I’ve stood in dinner queues for longer than some
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Weird Weekends: BSB with the Rizla squad
By Luke Ponsford on 29/12/2006 14:29:26
There is no 'i' in 'team', but there are four in 'freeloading, indolent bike journalist'. Ponsford joins the Rizla Suzuki BSB squad for the 2006 championship's last hurrah
la creme of British Superbike jockeys - Shane 'Shakey' Byrne, Leon Haslam, Ryuichi Kiyonari and Gregorio Lavilla, as well as a veritable circus of other riders, mechanics, team managers and technicians. Every one of them has a job to do. Even
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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?
team and was considering 'walking away from the sport completely.'But while Foggy had been pushing for a Ducati WSB deal, another manufacturer was busy advancing its own plans to race in the upcoming four-stroke MotoGP championship. Sauber Petronas
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MotoGP 2010: Who's going where?
By Visordown News on 13/08/2009 16:32:25
Visordown rider guide to the 2010 MotoGP season
Repsol Honda TeamDani Pedrosa – confirmed for 2010Andrea Dovizioso –confirmed for 2010 Fiat Yamaha TeamValentino Rossi - confirmed for 2010Jorge Lorenzo - looks set to stay with Yamaha in 2010 but could the reported 7million euro offer from Ducati
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Dirty Work
By Tom Higham on 28/01/2011 12:19:23
On a trip to the South Coast this week I was invited to meet the team behind a bright pink bike cleaner
they give to the Rizla Suzuki MotoGp team, the Dixon Yamaha MX team and also as an official supplier to the Force India F1 team, ensuring they all keep shining for the cameras.The company also supports the local bike meets at Poole Quay, which take place
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Comparing Champions - Toseland and Spies
By Robin Goodwin on 22/06/2010 13:39:19
How James Toseland compares to Ben Spies over the first five races following the team exchange
Following a role reversal at Yamaha with Ben Spies heading to MotoGP and James Toseland taking the WSB seat, it was obvious there would be comparisons between the current and former World Superbike champions.The above graphs charts each riders’ points haul after each of the first...
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Cold Play - Staying in
By Visordown Team on 20/10/2007 18:46:04
The team get together for a long night of beers, pizzas and DVDs to review what's hot on the box
the rumour goes. Harry H Corbett from Steptoe & Son is in it too. 6/10.10.30 Faster. Bloody hell, this is awesome. Filmed behind the MotoGP scenes during the 2001/2002 seasons, and featuring candid interviews with Rossi, Roberts, Schwantz, Doohan, Checa
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Discuss: Do 1000cc superbikes need traction control?
By Ben Cope on 21/06/2011 09:28:00
...or is it all in your wrist?
200 times a second.Yamaha are the second Japanese manufacturer to add TC to their top of the range superbike. It's thought that Suzuki's next GSX-R1000 will feature traction control but Honda appear to be keeping their cards close to their chest as far
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Face Off - Mackenzie V Hislop
By Stuart Barker on 23/04/2010 09:45:54
In 1998 the fiercest battle between two team-mates took place in British Superbikes. Niall Mackenzie and Steve Hislop set the racing scene alight with their increasingly vicious clashes
race of the BSB season and the source of his anger was his new team-mate, Steve Hislop, who had just beaten him with a last corner manoeuvre that left Mackenzie fuming. “I was less than pleased about the way he did it,” he said at the time. “I
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