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  1. New Benelli range launched

    ... Italian marque Benelli has unveiled a new range including 500cc scrambler and adventure models, a 300cc sports bike and a Honda MSX125 ... – after a 125cc model produced in 1951. It’s got a 500cc parallel-twin which slots in with A2 licence requirements by making 47hp ...

    Visordown News - 10/05/2024 - 03:49 - 0 comments

  2. Norick Abe killed in road accident

    ... traffic accident VISORDOWN SOURCES have confirmed 500cc Grand Prix winner, Norick Abe, was killed at the weekend when he struck a ... He was 32 years old. Abe took his first podium finish in 500cc GP racing in 1995 and his first win a year later. He took regular points ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 10/05/2024 - 04:24 - 0 comments

  3. Classic Test: Suzuki RG500 v Yamaha RD500LC

    ... between factories has seen to it that faster and wilder 500cc two-strokes are making heroes or victims of their riders. Racers like ... Can Yamaha really deliver a GP bike for the road? This 500cc Vee-Four two-stroke looks absolutely stunning in its speed-block paintjob ...

    rgo - 10/05/2024 - 04:09 - 0 comments

  4. New 502S middleweight cruiser from Benelli

    ... making 38.9hp at 9000rpm. But since that engine also has a 500cc version of the same engine, sharing the 69mm bore but with a longer ... version’s 53.4mm, it was always nearly inevitable that a 500cc version would also appear. Now just such a bike has emerged in China ...

    Al Dowds - 19/09/2018 - 03:49 - 0 comments

  5. Ex-Barry Sheene race bike to be auctioned this October

    ... Sheene, aboard the Fred Walmsley Development (FWD) 500cc Norton recreation, won the second Lennox Cup race at that year’s ... from his retirement from Grand Prix racing , where he was 500cc World Champion in 1976 and 1977. It was Sheene’s third race win on ...

    Alex Whitworth - 16/09/2022 - 11:15 - 0 comments

  6. Where Are They Now? Simon Crafar

    ... despite never winning a race. That is until he moved to 500cc GP racing with Red Bull Yamaha in 1998, where he won the British round ... It was a big risk going from a comfortable ride in WSB to 500cc GP racing but I wanted to give it a go, and 1998 on the Red Bull Yamaha ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 10/05/2024 - 04:24 - 0 comments

  7. MotoGP Evolution - Race tech to the road

    ... at Suzuka. With 250cc legends eating pasta here and 500cc greats ordering tiramisu there, it was a gilded walk on the wildside of ... meeting was the first that aired the heretical notion of the 500cc class returning to its four-stroke roots, and boosting things up to a ...

    rgo - 10/05/2024 - 04:14 - 0 comments

  8. The Professionals - Rob Herring

    ... with my background we found I was perfect for the job. 500cc motocross bike on full bore or doing a film scene: Which gets you going ...

    Ben Cope - 10/05/2024 - 04:16 - 0 comments

  9. Yamaha XSR900 GP pricing announced

    ... came with Wayne Rainey, who won the 1990, 1991, and 1992 500cc World Championship titles on Yamaha’s Marlboro-painted YZR500 before a ... to a Ducati between 2003 and 2007, but he won his first 500cc GP in 1995 in Marlboro Yamaha colours. ...

    Alex Whitworth - 14/03/2024 - 14:39 - 0 comments

  10. LEGENDS FEATURE: Top ten most iconic BSAs of all time

    ... celebrated engineer Val Page and available in 250, 350 and 500cc forms, which then morphed into the Silver Star in 1936, so named to ... lapped Brooklands for the first time at over 100mph on the 500cc version and awarded a Brooklands ‘Gold Star’ pin in recognition which ...

    Simon Hancocks - 21/11/2020 - 13:47 - 0 comments

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