Alan Cathcart, Author at Bike Review

Battling Boxers, The Butler & Smith R90S Superbikes Story

Alan Cathcart — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:13:37 +0000

BMW’s success in the 2024–25 WorldSBK Championship with Toprak Razgatlioglu was the culmination of a strategy set in motion back in 2009 when BMW began reshaping its once-conservative

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Throwback Thursday | Butler & Smith BMW R90S Superbike Test

Alan Cathcart — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:00:42 +0000

This month for Throwback Thursday Alan Cathcart rides the legendary restored 1976 Daytona-winning Butler & Smith BMW R90S boxer twin raced by Steve McLaughlin in the inaugural AMA

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Throwback Thursday | Over Racing TRX850R Giant Killer

Alan Cathcart — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:30:23 +0000

We’ve brought you Sir Al’s TRX850 proddie test, now his Over Racing TRX850R racer. Born as a Japan-only oddity, the TRX became a giant-killer when Cathcart and Over

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Throwback Thursday | Yamaha TRX850, 30 years on

Alan Cathcart — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:00:48 +0000

Launched in 1995, the TRX850 fused a 270° parallel twin with European-inspired chassis thinking to create an affordable sportsbike. Three decades on, its engineering story, racing pedigree and distinctive feel

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Throwback Thursday | Daijiro Kato’s 2000 Honda NSR250

Alan Cathcart — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:16:15 +0000

Last month Sir Al brought us his 2000 YZR250 test. The same year, he rode the Honda that Yamaha beat. Improbable though seems, Honda went three seasons without

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Throwback Thursday | Olivier Jacque’s 2000 YZR250 Racer Test

Alan Cathcart — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:56:44 +0000

Exactly 25 years ago in 2000, Yamaha enjoyed an especially stellar race season. In the five road racing categories it contested that year, Yamaha won five out of

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Throwback Thursday | Tribute, Michelle Duff, Make Haste Slowly…

Alan Cathcart — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 07:00:51 +0000

The first ever road racer from North America to win a World Championship GP race wasn’t Kenny Roberts, nor even Gary Nixon or Pat Hennen. It was the

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Throwback Thursday | Troy Corser Aprilia RSV1000R Racer Test

Alan Cathcart — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:33:38 +0000

Exactly 25 years ago in 2000 came a watershed moment in WorldSBK, Aprilia arrived. Until then it had been a straightforward battle between the Italian V-twin Ducatis and

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Throwback Thursday | Moto Guzzi 8V Racer Test, Revisited

Alan Cathcart — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 20:30:32 +0000

Il Dottore leaving us will be felt not only in the USA, where the bikes he created were raced successfully to three AMA National titles in the 1980s by the

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50 Years Today… Barry Sheene’s 1975 winning Suzuki RG500 XR14

Alan Cathcart — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:30:32 +0000

Fifty years ago the Suzuki RG500 made its competition debut, and in doing so raised the curtain on the modern era of 500cc Grand Prix racing, by making

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