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50 Years Today… Barry Sheene’s 1975 winning Suzuki RG500 XR14

Alan Cathcart — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:30:32 +0000

Fifty years ago the Suzuki RG500 made its competition debut, and in doing so raised the curtain on the modern era of 500cc Grand Prix racing, by making

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Throwback Thursday | 1999 V&M Yamaha YZF-R1 David Jefferies

Alan Cathcart — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:42:41 +0000

The October 1997 debut of Yamaha’s YZF-R1 put the Japanese company at the leading edge of sportbike design – a position for which it’s been in contention ever

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Throwback Thursday | Vincent-HRD Rapide Series A Test

Alan Cathcart — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 06:00:48 +0000

Even now when you can buy a racer-with-lights like a BMW M 1000 RR, Ducati V4R or Bimota KB 998, and ride it on the public highway in

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Throwback Thursday | Fogarty & Chilli’s Ducati 996 Superbike Test

Alan Cathcart — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:01:41 +0000

Quite apart from its domination of MotoGP, the past two years have seen Ducati rule the World Superbike series once again with the Panigale V4 R, its MotoGP racer-with-lights ridden

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The History Of Ginger Molloy’s Legendary Kawasaki H1R

Alan Cathcart — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 20:00:31 +0000

Ironic, really. Despite creating the iconic H1R, alone out of the four Japanese manufacturers, Kawasaki firmly turned its back away from two-stroke GP racing at the end of 1982, in

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