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BMW's Motorcycle Racing History
By Roland Brown on 23/04/2010 16:21:43
When BMW entered World Superbikes last season you’d be forgiven for thinking that the German marque had never started a race before, let alone won any. The reality is rather different
from the Senior TT to the US Superbike Championship, via Grands Prix and the Dakar Rally.So while it’s fair to say that the Munich lads haven’t scored a top-level title for a long time, their record shows they know how to win (and not only on penalties
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How Ninjas took over the world. From GPZ900 to ZX-10R
By Roland Brown on 10/05/2010 16:58:26
The original GPZ900R of 1984 sired a long and illustrious family of Ninjas that are a huge part of motorcycling today. From the mental ZX-10R to the blistering ZZ-R1400, none of them would have existed without the GPZ900 25 years ago
the favourite of all five riders on the trip. It had won that year’s Production TT, too, ridden by Geoff Johnson.The GPZ900R was never fazed by competition, not least because in ’84 it was neither the most powerful nor the most high-tech superbike even
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