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  1. V4 victory: Honda’s legendary engine

    ... had been racing its RS1000 V4s in endurance events since 1981, so a proper big-capacity road-going superbike was well overdue. Enter the ...

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

  2. Bye Bye Yamaha R1: The Beginning of the End For Superbikes?

    ... 40bhp. Where’s the progress in that? After all, my old 1981 RD350LC produced 47bhp over 40 years ago…   But maybe we do ...

    Phil West - 23/02/2024 - 17:07 - 0 comments

  3. How the BMW GS saved the company and changed the motorcycle world forever

    ... greater success when it also won the first time out at the 1981 Paris-Dakar Rally. But, of course, that was just the start of what ... BMW GS history - generation by generation 1981-1986 R80 G/S Original as inspired by ...

    Phil West - 06/10/2023 - 16:41 - 0 comments

  4. Z Marks the Spot | Top 10 Greatest Kawasaki 'Z' Motorcycles over 50 years

    ... way to go out!  It was inspired by Eddie Lawson’s 1981 (and ’82) AMA Superbike championship winning machines, based on the ...

    Ollie Barstow - 08/01/2022 - 11:30

  5. A brief history of the Suzuki GSX naked motorcycle range

    ... range of bikes in its own right. That first GSX1100 led to 1981’s radical, futuristically-styled GSX1100S Katana. In 1984, Suzuki came ...

    Simon Hancocks - 04/05/2021 - 09:44

  6. Top 10 Wankel engined bikes

    ... and only 38 were made before the project folded in 1981. A 2011 attempt to revive the bike with a ridiculous €85,000 price tag ...

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

  7. Top ten motorcycle riding Royals | From Prince Philip, to King Carlos

    ... the official photographs of Charles and Diana’s wedding in 1981. A first cousin once removed of the Queen, Lichfield was a lifetime bike ...

    Simon Hancocks - 22/08/2022 - 14:54

  8. Top 10 bike brand logos (and the stories behind them)

    ... British Leyland then Rover. Its last car was the Acclaim of 1981 which was essentially a rebadged Honda Ballade. BMW acquired the rights to ...

    Simon Hancocks - 29/08/2023 - 12:03

  9. Road Test: GT1000 v. CB1300 v. ZRX1200 v. Griso

    ... just like Eddie's tweaked KZ1000J AMA Superbike back in 1981. Yet the ZRX replica is almost a classic in its own right, having been ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 19/09/2018 - 08:01 - 0 comments

  10. Top 10 timeless Moto Guzzi motorcycles – and their values

    ... lacked the same appeal (the 1978 Mk II had a bigger fairing, 1981 MkIII a different fairing again, the 1984, 1000cc MkIV was swoopier still ...

    Simon Hancocks - 27/05/2021 - 11:13

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