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Alan Cathcart

Speed Triple Tech: Model history & RR’s Ohlins Electronic Suspension explained
3 years ago

Speed Triple Tech: Model history & RR’s Ohlins Electronic Suspension explained

The Triumph Speed Triple marks everything that the brand set out to achieve since its restart to production back in 1991. Topping the Triumph range for three decades, the Speed …
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Review: 2022 Triumph Speed Triple 1200 RR
3 years ago

Review: 2022 Triumph Speed Triple 1200 RR

Ever since John Bloor relaunched Britain’s legendary Triumph marque in 1991 with a range of three- and four-cylinder motorcycles that dared to target Japan Inc. head on, Triumph has always …
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Interview: Bob Rosenthal on the Team Avon Yamaha XS1100
3 years ago

Interview: Bob Rosenthal on the Team Avon Yamaha XS1100

Melbourne-based Bob Rosenthal was a prominent member of the army of recruits turned out by the mythical Australian rider factory, that in the 1970s produced the gifted riders of the …
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Interview: Kevin Magee on the Bob Brown Ducati
4 years ago

Interview: Kevin Magee on the Bob Brown Ducati

Victorian Kevin Magee lays valid claim to being “the world’s most versatile road racer of the modern era”, as the only man to have won World Championship rounds in the …
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Review: 2021 Triumph Speed Triple 1200 RS
8.5
4 years ago

Review: 2021 Triumph Speed Triple 1200 RS

Triumph Motorcycles owner John Bloor, and son Nick who heads the company these days, are known for being discreet let-the-product-speak-for-itself industrialists, who largely disdain the kind of marketing hype that …
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Throwback Thursday: LCR-Krauser Sidecar
4 years ago

Throwback Thursday: LCR-Krauser Sidecar

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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Throwback Thursday: 2001 WSBK Benelli Tornado
4 years ago

Throwback Thursday: 2001 WSBK Benelli Tornado

This Benelli was the first motorcycle to take advantage of WSBK’s three-cylinder 900cc capacity class, joined in 2003 by Foggy Petronas. In June 2001 the 60,000 fans lining Misano racetrack …
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New Book: History of the Ducati Monster
4 years ago

New Book: History of the Ducati Monster

On October 24th, 1992 the first-ever Ducati Monster was launched to the public at the IFMA Show in Germany – the first of 350,000 such bikes built so far, in …
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Throwback Interview: Alan Cathcart Chats With Nori Haga, 2000 season and YZF-R7
4 years ago

Throwback Interview: Alan Cathcart Chats With Nori Haga, 2000 season and YZF-R7

The trackside banner displayed at Brands Hatch in front of 102,000 spectators in August 2000 said it all: “Nori-chan = Foggy #.2”! The massive British crowd had taken the Sultan …
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Review & Feature: MV Agusta Rush 1000
9.3
4 years ago

Review & Feature: MV Agusta Rush 1000

Essentially a radically remodeled Brutale 1000 RR streetfighter, both courtesy of MV’s famed former progettista Adrian Morton, who recently left the firm after 16 years, the Rush is a still …
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