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Wozza Discovers: Mettet Superbiker
By Warren Pole on 02/12/2010 15:58:08
Mettet's end-of-season all-star supermoto knees-up is a must-see event. Wozza went one step further and entered the thing. Did he win? Did he hell
and his team took me under their wing, not only giving much needed tuition but also supplying one of their 2005 factory KTMs, my own mechanic and even a chair with my name on it in their garage.Overtaking Le Grelle on day one was a high (he was running out
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The Three Dukes of the Gumball 3000
By Stevan Keane, Mark Sloper, Karta Healey on 28/07/2002 13:48:22
Every year, the maddest drivers with the fastest cars race across foreign contintents at highly illegal speeds. It's the Gumball 3000 Rally. This time, three blokes on Ducati 998s joined them for the 3,500 mile trip
is very firm and the ride position pure racer.On the Ducatis are Mark, a television director who runs a bike team and has been in the saddle since he was four, speed freak and pathological biker Karta, (check out www.agotob.com for what he does
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The Visordown 'End of 2011' Quiz
By Ben Cope & Robin Goodwin on 21/12/2011 13:29:00
Have you been paying attention at the back?
their services as a substitute?a) Garry McCoyb) Alex Crivillec) Kenny Roberts Jr18. How many teams did Alex Lowes ride for in 2011?a) 4b) 3c) 519. In 2011 Snetterton launched the new 300 circuit, which of these is not one of the new corner names?a) Agostinib
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1983 San Marino GP - Down to the Wire
By Michael Scott on 07/10/2010 10:08:42
The San Marino Grand Prix, 4 September 1983
for the final round with Freddie on 132 points to Kenny's 127. Kenny needed to win with Freddie third or lower. It was down to Kenny's rookie team-mate Eddie Lawson to beat Freddie back.The race attracted unprecedented attention and live TV coverage - even
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Bike Icon: Kawasaki ZXR750
By Mark Shippey on 11/10/2010 13:09:50
Lean, mean and best in green, come and meet the best-looking mass production 750 four-cylinder sportsbike ever
Anthony Gobert pulls into park fermé and is mobbed by the Muzzy Kawasaki team. A first place in the second race at Phillip Island secures a very respectable fourth for the infamous Aussie in the 1995 World Championship. This was to be the last win
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Bad Boy No.2: Billy Lane
By Stuart Barker on 06/12/2010 15:02:15
From building custom bikers to manslaughter, here is a crime and punishment look at Billy Lane
’t worry about it.’”Lane originally faced a 30-year prison sentence, but his defence team eventually struck a plea deal and on August 14, 2009 he was sentenced to six years in Avon Park Work Camp, as well as three years of supervised probation. And he lost
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Bad Boy No.6: Jason Lawrence
By Stuart Barker on 07/12/2010 15:17:27
Top AMA Supercross racer sentenced to one year in prison during 2009 for two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of battery with serious bodily injury, and one count of mayhem
is now back racing Supercross having teamed up with No Fear and purchased his own private Yamaha. He raced his first round just four weeks after being released from jail.The brawling berm-basher casually reckoned his four-month enforced ‘break
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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
, giving the rider improved stability, handling and confidence in what the tyre is doing. The Qualifier II team worked hard on the amount of contact area available at low camber, or leant over in the turn, and there’s 8 percent more contact patch
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I Love The 90s
By Stuart Barker on 04/11/2010 09:39:01
Choose a FireBlade. Choose a Ducati 916. Choose born-again bikers, track days, Mick Doohan and Carl Fogarty. Choose the 1990s.
Trainspotting star himself Ewan McGregor. The Ducati 748-owning Scot attended track days and even backed a couple of race teams in between bouts of filming. And he still intends to run a WSB team some day. Good egg. May the Force be with him.Prodigy's Keith
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Altitude Sickness - Tackling Pikes Peak
By John Cantlie on 29/06/2010 15:27:47
There is a race twelve miles long, with 156 flat-out bends on a mix of tarmac and dirt. on any one of those corners, running off the track means plunging over a cliff and hitting rocks. We tackle the legendary Pikes Peak hillclimb
.Our team was assembled by the superhuman efforts of Landers Sevier from Birmingham, Alabama. Landers made our assault on Bonneville’s salt flats possible two years ago. “I’ve got aKTM690SMC and an Aprilia SXV450 – which do you want?” he asked way back
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