Posts By Alan Cathcart

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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Exactly 40 years ago on September 20, 1984, the unveiling of the ground-shattering Suzuki GSX-R750F at the IFMA Motorcycle Show in Cologne, Germany, saw the first streetlegal Superbike of the …
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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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The Y2K season was a vintage one for Yamaha – one that put them back on top of the heap in tarmac bike sport. Of the four road racing World …
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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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Ironic, really. Despite creating the iconic H1R, alone out of the four Japanese manufacturers, Kawasaki firmly turned its back away from two-stroke GP racing at the end of 1982, in …
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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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Laverda used racing as a means of developing new models, and showing the finished product to be both fast and reliable. Hence the family-owned company’s proud record of success in …
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