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Brough Superior, founded in 1919, was the so-called Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles, the manufacturer of the world’s fastest, most desirable and exclusive motorcycles in the pre-WW2 era. Just days after the …
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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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Dave Ward, the owner of this 1980 Ducati Pantah 500 race bike, is the proprietor of Moto Italia workshop. Moto Italia specialise in all things Italian – from servicing to …
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MotoBi, born out of a family dispute between the Benelli brothers before being absolved by the Benelli brand and brought to success in racing at the hands of Primo Zanzani. …
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Even by the standards of Italy’s etceterini array of little-known marques back in the 1950s, MotoBi is an obscure subplot to the ongoing soap opera that the ever-changing panorama of …
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Massimo Laverda had a finger on the pulse of the motorcycle market, leading other companies in making bikes people wanted to buy. We dive into Laverda’s 3C 1000 triple – …
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Loosely referred to as the RG650, Suzuki’s steroid-laden XR23B was originally conceived in 1976 as a testbed to advance development of the Japanese company’s XR14 500GP contender – the bike …
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2023 sees Harley-Davidson celebrating its 120th birthday – but the 81st running of the Daytona 200 on March 11 will also mark the 40th anniversary of one of the company’s …
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50 years on from its season in the sun, Ginger Molloy’s milestone Kawasaki H1R is alive and racing in Australia in completely original form, thanks to the son of the …
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ELF, a French oil giant, became one of the biggest names in endurance racing and motorcycle innovation of the ’80s. At the head of this strange collaboration was one of …
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