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Settling the score - Mackenzie v Whitham
By Visordown on 28/03/2008 15:52:00
In 1996 Niall and James were team mates in the British Superbike championship. Niall won the title and James came second. Now, for the first time in 11 years, they prepare to face each other on track again on identical Yamahas for one final showdown
that the season would be a straight battle between the two Boost Yamaha riders on their 160bhp YZF750s, with fans split over who to support. There wasn't any such thing as an impartial supporter, you were either on Niall's or James' side.Throughout the year
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Meet the family - Kawasaki Z900
By Visordown on 14/06/2010 15:08:33
The Z900 was a memorable moment in Kawasaki's history as one of the motorcycling milestones of the past fifty years
Of all the bombshell bikes launched in the last fifty years, Kawasaki’s 1972 Z900 (becoming the Z1 in 1974) is a milestone machine.Kawasaki decided to trump Honda’s CB750 by launching something else altogether. With double overhead cams to the Honda
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The Future of Crashing
By Visordown on 28/03/2002 11:55:34
Insight in to the next generation of crash protection, the airbag system
sophisticated technical items and armoured to buggery yet still very wearable. Gloves and boots feature protection that even 10 years ago would have been unheard of. And all this is thanks to what happens when the like of Fogarty, Biaggi and Rossi get it wrong
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Valentino Rossi History and Facts
By Visordown on 18/07/2010 13:44:03
Information and history on the Italian multiple MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi riding for Ducati in 2011
for Rossi came in 1997 when he piloted the Aprilia RS125 to number one, in his second year in the 125 Grand Prix class. His two-stroke career developed a pattern with Valentino Rossi taking one year to learn the Grand Prix motorcycle before becoming champion
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Katja Poensgen
By Visordown on 26/10/2001 16:47:36
For a girl to make it into professional bike racing is rare enough. For a girl to make it all the way into Grands Prix is even rarer
For a girl to make it into professional bike racing is rare enough. For a girl to make it all the way into Grands Prix is even rarer. And for that girl to be (let's be frank here) not a complete minger, is absolutely unheard of. But 23 year
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The Aprilia Racing Specials: RS250, RSV Mille and RS3 Cube
By Visordown on 12/04/2010 09:37:23
From the dominant RS250, to the V-twin Mille and the beastly Cube. Visordown details three bikes that define Aprila's racing pedigree
1993 and at the end of that year we won a lot of races. That continued in 1994. The Aprilia was a disc-valve engine and still is. Back then the reed-valve engines were better able to handle the peakiness of a two-stroke 250 without electronics, but reed
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The last time Harley updated its engine...
By Visordown on 10/09/2009 12:12:00
...was back in 1984 when the introduction of the Evo 80 resurrected the Screamin' Eagle
the disastrous AMF years (1969-1981) when the company had struggled through strikes, ever-worsening build quality and a diversification into two-strokes - truly hideous machines and all but forgotten.The management buy-out in 1981 had brought forward a new
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Ducati 916 - the bike, the legend
By Visordown on 18/10/2010 10:57:27
The evolution of a legend and a motorcycling icon: 916 996 998 999 1098
because, in the hands of 'King' Carl Fogarty, it destoyed the superbike competition.In its 10-year life span, from 1994 to 2004, the 916, and then the outwardly near-identical 996 and 998 versions that followed, stamped its mark on the world. Here's why we
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Unfinished business - Laverda SFC
By Visordown on 27/08/2010 15:01:07
Conceived in boom-time and canned when Laverda owners Aprilia felt the pinch from falling scooter sales, the SFC (Super Freni Competizione – as in super brakes competition) was an interpretation of Laverda’s iconic early seventies endurance racer
Like Gilera, Laverda is a name that’s been missing from ‘proper’ bikes for years but it came close to a comeback in 2003 with the Aprilia-backed SFC.Having struggled from one owner to another for years, churning out variations on its ancient
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The 12 motorcycles that matter
By Visordown on 22/11/2011 12:35:55
We wouldn't be where we are today without these twelve bikes that changed history and in doing so, reached the coveted status of icon
maligned, the Norton Commando both saved and then helped to kill the British bike industry. Read about the Norton Commando here.Suzuki RGV2501989 was a vintage year for hoodlum teenagers worldwide because this was the year Suzuki unleashed the RGV250
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