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Road V Race - Supersport
By Warren Pole on 05/11/2003 14:40:32
Road and race 600 supersport bikes face-off
good are they really? I mean how would they fare against their finest racing counterparts? What I'm getting at is how wide is the gulf between the 600s in our showrooms, and the ones tearing up the British Championship week after week
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Rocket Men - The Racing Haslam Family
By Bertie Simmonds on 26/06/2002 15:50:55
The story behind the racing Haslam family
versions of that one, but true or not, it illustrates the simple fact that a passion for racing and a thirst for what makes racing motorcycles work, battles for space in the Haslam veins alongside red and white corpuscles and haemoglobin. So much so
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Five great £3000 track weapons
By Jon Urry on 31/05/2012 16:51:00
Want a road bike that'll also cut in on the track? You don't need to blow the bank, check out these smart buys instead
rather than do their down thing with a triple. However this fact shouldn’t put you off what is a brilliant supersport bike.The Daytona won a TT at the hands of Bruce Anstey and a British Supersport race with the late, great, Craig Jones – hell even Prince
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Motorcycle Radar: 1986
By Roland Brown on 17/11/2010 16:49:50
Journalist Roland Brown has ridden everything that’s walked or crawled in the last 30 years. Here he looks back at the bikes that defined 1986
eight places in the Proddy TT, with winner Trevor Nation setting a record lap of 113.26mph. Nation was just beaten by Phil Mellor, whose race preparation involved little more than lockwiring his GSX-R’s sidestand to the frame.Many who recall the glory
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Motorcycle Radar: 1996
By Roland Brown on 02/12/2010 13:38:12
Esteemed motorcycle journalist, Roland Brown, talks about what was going on in motorcycling, way back when
bike's European arrival, Honda brought one to the Isle of Man during TT week, and I blagged a ride. Best moment was riding this 310kg naked bruiser the wrong way down the Mountain just before the road closed for a day's racing, and being impressed
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Motorcycle Radar: 1986
By Roland Brown on 02/12/2010 13:55:46
Roland Brown is a world class swordsman, entertainer, poet, scientist, boxer, ladies' man and motorcycle journalist. Only one of those is true.
and 1200 that were arguably the best sports-tourers of the 80s. Ironically the chain-drive FJ1100 was intended to be a super-sports bike when released in 1984, but thrashing it round the Isle of Man TT circuit in company with a Kawasaki GPZ900R confirmed
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Living with a 2001 Kawasaki ZX-6R
By Gus Scott on 26/04/2002 11:45:59
Gus Scott the man, the legend, a ladies man and a very tight northerner indeed. And he was very fast on a motorcycle
off quite badly as you pile on the laps. So, pulling in a few old racing favours I've managed to get meself a new rear shock. In fact, the very WP unit Iain MacPherson had on his World Supersport ZX-6R from last year. So cheers mate to Wayne Lamb at WP
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Field of Dreams
By Stuart Barker on 22/10/2007 15:24:09
An empty field and a beaten-up moped. It's how most of us first began our love affair with biking and a rite of passage we will never forget. TWO celebrates the cult of the fieldbike
pulled alongside and knocked me into a ditch. I had to go to court and ended up selling the bike.'JIM MOODIE EIGHT TIME TT WINNER, THREE TIME SUPERSPORT CHAMPMy dad got me a Honda C70 and riding it round fields in a piss-pot lid and old wellies was all I
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