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Throwback Thursday | 2015 Yamaha YZF-R1 … Part1 Track

By  •  January 16, 2025

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

By  •  December 26, 2024

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

By  •  November 28, 2024

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

By  •  October 24, 2024

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

By  •  September 26, 2024

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

By  •  August 22, 2024

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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Throwback Thursday | Fogarty & Chilli’s Ducati 996 Superbike Test

By  •  August 1, 2024

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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Throwback Thursday: Ginger Molloy’s Kawasaki H1R Racer

By  •  July 25, 2024

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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Throwback Thursday | Tuning Tips: Pommie’s Yamaha RD350LC

By  •  June 13, 2024

I was never really happy with the fuelling of my Yamaha RD350LC, which was featured earlier in the year, and the reason I never bothered too much with jetting, was …
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1974 Kawasaki H1 500 | Throwback Thursday, Classic

By  •  May 2, 2024

I’m used to riding the latest and greatest bikes all the time, so my idea was to buy something for myself that I was less likely to lose my licence …
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