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Throwback Thursday! Ducati Pantah 500 Racer

By  •  July 13, 2023

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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Throwback Thursday: Riding A Wes Cooley Rep Suzuki GS1000S

By  •  October 20, 2022

We will call this one an “unofficial” Wes Cooley edition because Suzuki never actually marketed the bike a Wes Cooley GS1000S. It was simply a blue and white S version …
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Throwback Thursday: 2009 KTM RC8R, Changing A Lemon Into An Orange

By  •  June 16, 2022

As we celebrate Remy Gardner winning the Moto2 Championship on a KTM and now riding MotoGP for the brand, along with Jack Miller signing for two-years, over a decade on …
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Throwback Thursday: Tom Sykes 2014 WorldSBK Kawasaki ZX-10R

By  •  June 2, 2022

After not getting my request in early enough for the chance to do some laps on Tom Sykes’ Championship winning ZX-10R after the thrilling finale at Jerez, it came as …
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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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