Posts By Alan Cathcart

The French hearted and Japanese boned Moto Martin Suzuki GSX1100 has found it’s home down-under racing in the heavily competitive Post-Classic Unlimited Period 5 class. I was lucky enough to …
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Ducati’s reassertion of its WorldSBK supremacy in 2022-23, with double title wins for Bautista after the Italian factory went a decade without any championship success, prompts a look in the …
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Tearing himself away from the beach for a couple of hours to watch my flawed efforts to imitate his impressive performance during the 2003 season aboard the Ducati 999 F03, …
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John Britten was best known for his V1000 creation, which to this day is still one of the wildest motorcycles to grace the international road racing stages. Proving he was …
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The words ‘genius’ and tragedy’ are often overstated, but it is beyond question that John Britten was an engineering genius, and that his death from skin cancer in September 1995, …
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Britain’s 1970s short circuit racing scene saw fans enthralled by the no-prisoners warfare in the 501-1000cc Unlimited class races between a huge variety of different motorcycles. How can we forget …
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Though absent from Grand Prix racing’s premier class for the past 47 years, MV Agusta is still Europe’s most historic and successful racing marque. MV have changed owners a few …
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It was a show-stopping sensation when last year on the eve of the annual EICMA Milan Show, it was revealed that MV Agusta, wholly owned since 2019 by Russian investor …
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Up until 2023, MV Agusta has been entirely Russian-owned since Timur Sardarov, 40, completed his family’s acquisition of the historic Italian brand in September 2019, with a further injection of …
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It’s exactly 30 years since Kawasaki won Superbike’s World crown for the first time, courtesy of American Scott Russell, the cool-dude Georgian rider once memorably described as ‘so laid back, …
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