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Throwback Thursday | 1999 V&M Yamaha YZF-R1 David Jefferies
4 days ago

Throwback Thursday | 1999 V&M Yamaha YZF-R1 David Jefferies

The October 1997 debut of Yamaha’s YZF-R1 put the Japanese company at the leading edge of sportbike design – a position for which it’s been in contention ever …
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Custom Bike | Turbo’d Ducati Diavel, 225RWHP!
2 weeks ago

Custom Bike | Turbo’d Ducati Diavel, 225RWHP!

When Blake Saville realised he was never going to get comfortable on his YZF-R1, despite trying, he decided it was time to buy a cruiser. He didn’t want a Harley …
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Throwback Thursday | The Back Story of the Alex Criville 1989 JJ-Cobas TB5 125
2 months ago

Throwback Thursday | The Back Story of the Alex Criville 1989 JJ-Cobas TB5 125

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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Throwback Thursday | Racer Test, JJ-Cobas 1989 TB5 125
2 months ago

Throwback Thursday | Racer Test, JJ-Cobas 1989 TB5 125

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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Throwback Thursday | World’s Fastest Triumph Trident, Mellor Streamliner
3 months ago

Throwback Thursday | World’s Fastest Triumph Trident, Mellor Streamliner

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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Throwback Thursday | Harley-Davidson RR500 GP bike
4 months ago

Throwback Thursday | Harley-Davidson RR500 GP bike

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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Classic Racer: Suzuki GSX-R1100 Slabside
5 months ago

Classic Racer: Suzuki GSX-R1100 Slabside

I’ve always had a fascination for classic motorcycles and in particular, classic racing, and while I’m 60 now, go back 40 years and the best bike of the time was the …
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Throwback Thursday | 1984 JJ-COBAS BMW K100R RACER TEST
5 months ago

Throwback Thursday | 1984 JJ-COBAS BMW K100R RACER TEST

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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Throwback Thursday | 1985 British Superstock GSX-R750F
6 months ago

Throwback Thursday | 1985 British Superstock GSX-R750F

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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Throwback Thursday | Carlos Checa’s 2000 Yamaha YZR500 Test
7 months ago

Throwback Thursday | Carlos Checa’s 2000 Yamaha YZR500 Test

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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