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Alan Cathcart

Interview: Kevin Magee on the Bob Brown Ducati
3 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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Tech History: The Swissauto ELF 500 GP Racer
4 years ago

Tech History: The Swissauto ELF 500 GP Racer

At a time when Ducati and Aprilia have now been joined by fellow-Eurobrand KTM in taking the fight for MotoGP supremacy to the three Japanese factories in 2021, it’s timely …
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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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Feature: Racer and Engineer, Harald Bartol
4 years ago

Feature: Racer and Engineer, Harald Bartol

For 1972 Harald Bartol acquired the ex-works Suzuki RZ64 twin on which Germany’s Dieter Braun had won the 1970 125cc World title, and Barry Sheene had finished a close runner-up …
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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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Happy B’day to BikeReview.com.au! We Turn Five Today!
4 years ago

Happy B’day to BikeReview.com.au! We Turn Five Today!

On this day in 2015 we went live. Wow, what a ride it has been, in that time alone we have reviewed over 200 motorcycles! Last month we had 86,800 …
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