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Throwback Thursday

Throwback Thursday: 2003 Hodgson Ducati 999 F03, Racer Test
12 months ago

Throwback Thursday: 2003 Hodgson Ducati 999 F03, Racer Test

Ducati’s reassertion of its WorldSBK supremacy in 2022-23, with double title wins for Bautista after the Italian factory went a decade without any championship success, prompts a look in the …
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Interview: Neil Hodgson Chats About His WorldSBK Ducati 999 F03
12 months ago

Interview: Neil Hodgson Chats About His WorldSBK Ducati 999 F03

Tearing himself away from the beach for a couple of hours to watch my flawed efforts to imitate his impressive performance during the 2003 season aboard the Ducati 999 F03, …
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Throwback Thursday: Britten Aero-D-One V1000, Racer Test
1 year ago

Throwback Thursday: Britten Aero-D-One V1000, Racer Test

John Britten was best known for his V1000 creation, which to this day is still one of the wildest motorcycles to grace the international road racing stages. Proving he was …
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TBT Feature: John Britten, New Zealand’s Engineering Genuis
1 year ago

TBT Feature: John Britten, New Zealand’s Engineering Genuis

The words ‘genius’ and tragedy’ are often overstated, but it is beyond question that John Britten was an engineering genius, and that his death from skin cancer in September 1995, …
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Throwback Thursday: Julian Soper’s Hadleigh Honda 750
1 year ago

Throwback Thursday: Julian Soper’s Hadleigh Honda 750

Britain’s 1970s short circuit racing scene saw fans enthralled by the no-prisoners warfare in the 501-1000cc Unlimited class races between a huge variety of different motorcycles. How can we forget …
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Throwback Thursday: Record Breaking Brough Superior Baby Pendine 750
1 year ago

Throwback Thursday: Record Breaking Brough Superior Baby Pendine 750

Brough Superior, founded in 1919, was the so-called Rolls-Royce of Motorcycles, the manufacturer of the world’s fastest, most desirable and exclusive motorcycles in the pre-WW2 era. Just days after the …
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Tech Talk: Record Breaking Brough Superior 750 Baby Pendine
1 year ago

Tech Talk: Record Breaking Brough Superior 750 Baby Pendine

Brough Superior are known for their pre-WW2 record breaking bikes. Back in 2013, I took a very special Brough Superior to the Bonneville Salt Flats in search of a record. …
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Throwback Thursday: Scott Russell Kawasaki ZXR750R Superbike
1 year ago

Throwback Thursday: Scott Russell Kawasaki ZXR750R Superbike

It’s exactly 30 years since Kawasaki won Superbike’s World crown for the first time, courtesy of American Scott Russell, the cool-dude Georgian rider once memorably described as ‘so laid back, …
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Throwback Thursday: MotoBi Sei Tiranti 250, Racer Test
2 years ago

Throwback Thursday: MotoBi Sei Tiranti 250, Racer Test

MotoBi, born out of a family dispute between the Benelli brothers before being absolved by the Benelli brand and brought to success in racing at the hands of Primo Zanzani. …
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Throwback Thursday: The History Of MotoBi
2 years ago

Throwback Thursday: The History Of MotoBi

Even by the standards of Italy’s etceterini array of little-known marques back in the 1950s, MotoBi is an obscure subplot to the ongoing soap opera that the ever-changing panorama of …
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