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MotoGP 2011: Laguna Seca MotoGP FP3 results
By Visordown News on 24/07/2011 16:17:42
The times from the third free practice session at Laguna Seca
CASEY Stoner was back at the top for the third free practice session with usual suspects Pedrosa and Lorenzo close behind.POSITION / NUMBER / RIDER / COUNTRY / TEAM / SPEED / TIME / GAP 1ST / GAP PREVIOUS1 27 Casey STONER AUS Repsol Honda Team Honda
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5 tips to beat the cold this winter
By Ben Cope on 03/11/2011 16:15:09
The cold weather is coming, but you can keep going in comfort
decent neck tube. You need to cut out the wind that can rush up into your helmet into the top of your jacket. Gone are the days where my Adam's Apple was so cold it felt like it was about to shatter.I wear a Polar Buff, which is a standard neck tube
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Yamaha Pro Am madness, the best one make championship ever?
By Niall Mackenzie on 18/12/2010 10:57:40
.Our adventures extended to Germany in 1983 when the top five riders in each of the European series were sent to Hockenheim for even more madness. And the Brits didn’t disappoint as we were close to the front all weekend. I led on the last lap (never a good idea
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848 Challenge shines at wet Thruxton
By Ben Cope on 01/06/2011 17:05:49
Super-close racing at the super-fast Thruxton
thrilling finish, Gilbertson re-took the lead with less than two laps remaining and held on for the win, with Brown and Morris following him home, and the top five riders all finished less than 1 second apart. Race TwoA very wet race 2 went off after
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The high and lows of Monza
By Ben Cope on 15/07/2011 11:40:34
A weekend to remember. And one to forget.
kit. Suspension is where I felt I was lacking at Assen and with this kit, I had a bike that was capable of a top-ten finish.I had issues from the very start: Our first sessions were on Saturday. and my 848 kept getting stuck in 6th gear, meaning I
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Bike Icon: Honda VFR750R RC30
By Stuart Barker on 30/09/2010 14:32:10
Handbuilt in Japan by HRC and available to Fogarty, Hislop and Joe Bloggs, the RC30 was, and is, a little bit special
beat it away from traffic lights. With a top speed of 155mph, the RC30 was, quite simply, the only bike to have in the late 1980s and early '90s and for many people now that's still the case.It was discontinued in 1993 to make way for the supposedly
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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
resulted in Freddie beating King Kenny by a miniscule two points, 144 to 142. Impressively third place was a distance behind the top two in the rankings with Randy Mamola bringing home 89 points at the end of the season.A breakdown of the wins per round
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Board Stupid - To the Alps on a CD250
By Richard Baybutt on 18/10/2010 15:08:22
London to the French Alps on a 20 year-old Honda CD250. Ridden by someone who only just passed their test a week before. In the depths of winter. And with their snowboard strapped to the side of this rusty shitbox…
the clothes I owned; a Helly base layer, two t-shirts, a jumper, leather jacket and a snowboard jacket over the top, a scarf, two pairs of gloves, knee pads, jeans, board trousers and my super comfy boots. I didn’t know about proper bike gear, I didn’t know
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BMW Offroad School review
By Jon Urry on 25/10/2010 10:13:32
It’s one of the best-known off road skills schools in the UK, catering for all levels of ability. But even the BMW off-road school hadn’t witnesseth incompetence of the scale Urry accomplished
our group pulled up at the top of a down-hill path, which we were told to go down without using the brakes, slowing ourselves using the engine braking. At this point I became tenser than an agoraphobic in a park and had images of a bent bike and myself
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Crown Jewels - AGV Helmets
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/10/2003 09:05:35
So just how do Italian helmet manufacturers AGV protect the most precious head in motorcycle racing? Bertie headed to Italy to find out making a helmet for Valentino Rossi must be akin to trying to make a crown fit for a king
profit making market for AGV's glass fibre lids, so we have quite a bit of sway as to what AGV builds. In 2001 AGV formed a World Design Committee, and the first thing I wanted to see was a real top of the range lid that could take on the best lids
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