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  1. Where can I watch the Travis Pastrana Evel Knievel jumps?

    ... BACK IN the 1970s millions would crowd around their TVs to see Evel Knievel break records ...

    Visordown News - 23/09/2019 - 09:35 - 1 comment

  2. Nostalgic Moped Memories

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    Garelli - 23/09/2019 - 00:52 - 0 comments

  3. Whatever happened to...? The motorcycle brands we want to revive (Part 2)

    ... announced they would no longer make motorcycles. Since the 1970s the Vincent Owners Club has owned the rights to the Vincent name and ... fallen. Italian brand Laverda, the superbike kings of the 1970s, are no more – or are they? The orange machines from Breganze, most ...

    Ollie Barstow - 03/10/2020 - 11:20 - 0 comments

  4. Top 10 best looking modern classics

    ... an old design, almost unchanged since the SR500 of the 1970s. In terms of appearance, though, it loses out slightly through being a ... alloys instead of wires, but even they are in the style of 1970s designs. The fact it’s the cheapest Harley is a bonus. ...

    Visordown News - 23/09/2019 - 00:52 - 0 comments

  5. Here are 10 Motorcycling Facts you (probably) didn’t know…

    ... in the invention of the back protector in the late 1970s, passing on his ideas to Dainese. Or that the legendary Captain America ... ‘based’ on a Peugeot 104 car engine In the late 1970s, with its air-cooled boxers aging and outgunned by the new Japanese ...

    Alex Strange - 24/11/2021 - 10:57

  6. Top 10 fastest production motorcycles from 10 decades

    ... 125mph top speed would still be respectable in the 1970s, let alone 1948 when it was launched. While 55bhp from a 1000cc twin ... today, and it’s the Japanese machine. 5: 1970s BY the end of the 1970s, a sea change in top speed was on the verge ...

    Ben Cope - 09/09/2019 - 03:05 - 0 comments

  7. Road Test: Ducati Sport 1000 vs. Triumph Thruxton

    ... Did any adults seriously ride a Raleigh Chopper in the 1970s? Not a chance, but the majority of 'new' Chopper buyers are ... making the Triumph name a force to be reckoned with in the 1970s. Ducati's 750 Sport was a similar story in Europe. Designed to sell ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 22/09/2019 - 19:20 - 0 comments

  8. Top 10 pre-1978 bikes

    ... 10: Honda GL1000 Back in the 1970s, the Honda Gold Wing wasn’t the leviathan it’s become in later ... something of a revelation in the middleweight class in the 1970s. Following on from the CB750, it was among the first of a new breed of ...

    Visordown - 23/09/2019 - 09:35 - 2 comments

  9. People who changed motorcycling no 4 - Colin Seeley

    ... a trend-setting pioneer of coloured leathers. In the 1970s he was a pioneering and revered frame designer who supplied the likes of ... which quickly became popular with privateers. In the early 1970s he diversified into Japanese engines, producing the equally popular, ...

    Alex Strange - 19/04/2021 - 12:26

  10. Little screamers | Two-stroke icons punching above their power-to-weight ratio

    ... two-stroke road bikes have been more significant than the 1970s RD250.  Launched alongside the larger RD350 in 1972, its ‘RD’ ... form with the RD250C of 1976 from when it symbolised the 1970s alongside the Ford Capri, Oxford bags and The Rubettes.  Then it got ...

    Ollie Barstow - 15/05/2022 - 10:17

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