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Alex Criville’s story to becoming a MotoGP icon is a brilliant one. As a bike mad teenager, he basically made it all happen himself and with raw talent, sheer guts …
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Having tested Aspar’s 1988 World title-winning rotary-valve Derbi and Gianola’s runner-up reed-valve Honda RS125R in 1988, I figured before stepping aboard it at Jarama that I had a …
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It’s fitting that the 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 was launched at a racetrack. For the third generation, Yamaha chose to conduct the World Press Test of a new R1 model at …
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It’s not every day you see a Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn limousine, for one thing they were only manufactured for a few years, during the height of Britain’s postwar …
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The chance to ride the one and only factory Harley-Davidson 500GP racer ever built came on a summer’s day at Pirelli’s Vizzola test track, in the shadow of …
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So you thought the WorldSBK title winning BMW M 1000 RR that Toprak Razgatlioglu just won on, 15 years after the debut of the S 1000 RR, was the German …
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It’s hard to think of any new model as immediately dominant straight out of the box as the Suzuki GSX-R750F was in its debut 1985 racing season. Nothing demonstrated this …
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Not since 1992, and the last of Wayne Rainey’s hat-trick of World titles, had the Japanese company with the tuning forks badge ruled the roost in Grand Prix racing’s premier …
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Quite apart from its domination of MotoGP, the past two years have seen Ducati rule the World Superbike series once again with the Panigale V4 R, its MotoGP racer-with-lights ridden …
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50 years on from its season in the sun, the Ginger Molloy milestone Kawasaki H1R is alive and racing in Australia in completely original form, thanks to the son of …
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