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Throwback Thursday: A Decade On, 2012 Suzuki GSX-R1000 Launch

By  •  May 19, 2022

The previous generation GSX-R1000 to the all-new back in 2012 Gixer was one fantastic bike. So good, in fact, that is cleaned up the Rapid Bikes 2009 Superbike Shootout, so …
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Throwback Thursday: Wayne Gardner Rides Max Biaggi’s RC211V

By  •  May 12, 2022

Back in 2005, Jeff Ware and Peter Pap arranged, with the help of Phillip Island and MotoGP, for Wayne Gardner to ride Max Biaggi’s Repsol Honda RC211V, check out what …
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Throwback Thursday: Riding Rossi’s Honda RC211V!

By  •  March 31, 2022

You know an event’s been special when you can trace it right back to its birth; remembering exactly where and when you were at the moment the memory was first …
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Throwback Thursday: Record Breaking Vintage, Vincent Black Shadow

By  •  March 17, 2022

The history of Vincent Motorcycles is a rocky affair, with spectacular highs, matched only by the unfortunate low that saw production end. With less than 1700 Black Shadows ever made, …
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Throwback Thursday: 1990 Suzuki GSX-R750L

By  •  November 18, 2021

1990 was a special year for the Suzuki GSX-R750, with the GSX-R750L model to see a major overhaul, addressing a variety of issues that had cropped up in the 1988 …
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Throwback Thursday: XJR1300 & GSX1400 Musclebikes

By  •  October 14, 2021

The early 2000s produced some spectacular nakedbikes. Two of the muscle men at the front line were the GSX1400 and the XJR1300. The huge Japanese, four-stroke, four-cylinder machines were monsters, …
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Throwback Thursday: Aprilia RS250 Harada Resto

By  •  August 12, 2021

In late 1999 Heather and I were living day to day in Sydney, me a bike courier trying to get a start in journalism, and Heather working a city office …
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Throwback Thursday: Broc Parkes Provec Motocard WSS ZX-6R

By  •  July 29, 2021

Taking part in WSBK and WSS commentary for a number of years working for Speed TV and Fox Sports Australia alongside Kevin Magee and Jessica Yates meant I’d been paying …
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Throwback Thursday: Hannspree Ten Kate CBR600RR

By  •  July 15, 2021

The 127-race veteran of WSS, 2002 WSS World Champion Frenchman Fabien Foret, was a wild man on track, going on to have some hugely successful moments in WSS and WorldSBK. …
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Throwback Thursday: LCR-Krauser Sidecar

By  •  June 17, 2021

I really ought to have known better than to get myself talked into doing it again. I mean – how many times in your life do you have to be …
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