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  1. 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

  2. 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) - 10/05/2024 - 04:21 - 0 comments

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Top 10 race bike liveries ever - that are not MotoGP!

    ... the likes of Anton Mang and Kork Ballington back in the late 1970s/early ‘80s on the dominant 250/350 tandem twins, but it all started ... H2R three-cylinder, two-stroke triples of the early-to-mid 1970s. Ridden also by the likes of Gary Nixon in the US and Mick Grant and ...

    Simon Hancocks - 03/07/2021 - 10:47

  7. Tokyo Show special - Mugen V-twin concept

    ... set up by Soichiro Honda’s son, Hirotoshi, in the early 1970s, and has produced aftermarket parts and tuning packages for road and race ... – has its roots in a near-mythical bike Mugen built in the 1970s, the MRV1000. That prototype used a one-off 1,000cc twin-carbed engine ...

    Al Dowds - 10/05/2024 - 03:49 - 0 comments

  8. New Energica Futurama

    ... Custom Motorcycles. The aim was to make it look like a 1970s Grand Prix bike according to Energica.  We quite like it despite our ... For all that midnight running. PS. 1970s GP bikes did not have big, stupid yellow lights. ...

    Visordown - 10/05/2024 - 03:49 - 7 comments

  9. Watch: Kawasaki Z900RS teaser video

    ... our first look at Kawasaki's imminent new retro model, the 1970s Z1-aping Z900RS.  Don't get too excited too quickly. The bike shown clearly at two seconds in is in fact a 1970s 900cc Z1, immediately given away by its air-cooled engine, single front ...

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

  10. Harley reveals 2016 models

    ... tank styling features horizontal stripes, a throw-back to 1970s style that’s reappearing today on custom bikes. Those lines are ...

    Simon Greenacre - 10/05/2024 - 03:52 - 0 comments

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