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Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday | Vincent-HRD Rapide Series A Test
5 days ago

Throwback Thursday | Vincent-HRD Rapide Series A Test

Even now when you can buy a racer-with-lights like a BMW M 1000 RR, Ducati V4R or Bimota KB 998, and ride it on the public highway in …
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Throwback Thursday | The Back Story of the Alex Criville 1989 JJ-Cobas TB5 125
4 weeks 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
1 month 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 | 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 … Part1 Track
2 months ago

Throwback Thursday | 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 … Part1 Track

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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Throwback Thursday | World’s Fastest Triumph Trident, Mellor Streamliner
2 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
3 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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Throwback Thursday | 1984 JJ-COBAS BMW K100R RACER TEST
4 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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Tech Feature TBT: Development of the Suzuki GSX-R750F, 40 Years On
5 months ago

Tech Feature TBT: Development of the Suzuki GSX-R750F, 40 Years On

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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Throwback Thursday | 1985 British Superstock GSX-R750F
5 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
6 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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