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  • Buying Guide: Buying a superbike

    Buying Guide: Buying a superbike

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    Ok, so most of us couldn’t even get close to what these things can do. But that’s not the point. In the late 1980s the superbike went crazy. Race tech leaped and bounded and cash-rich Japanese factories were happy to give us Suzuka 8-Hour-developed missiles to ride to work…

  • Buying Guide: Buying a superbike

    Buying Guide: Buying a superbike

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    Ok, so most of us couldn’t even get close to what these things can do. But that’s not the point. In the late 1980s the superbike went crazy. Race tech leaped and bounded and cash-rich Japanese factories were happy to give us Suzuka 8-Hour-developed missiles to ride to work…

  • European Sidecar Cross Championship, 1979

    European Sidecar Cross Championship, 1979

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    The opposition was definitely groggy as Swiss ace Robert Grogg, with Andreas Husser in the chair of their 920 Norton Wasp outfit, dominated the British round of the European Sidecar Cross Championship at Beenham Park, Berkshire in July 1979…

  • Schwantz third at the Suzuka 8 Hours

    Schwantz third at the Suzuka 8 Hours

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    The champion of the 1993 500cc GP, Kevin Schwantz, took third place at the 2013 Suzuka 8 Hours race held late July, at the tender age of 49…

  • Manx Grand Prix gets underway

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    After a short delay moving marshals around the course, the 2013 Isle of Man Festival of Motorcycling finally got underway yesterday evening. Conditions good with dry roads although riders were warned about low sunlight…

  • Road Test: Triumph Metisse

    Road Test: Triumph Metisse

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    The Triumph Métisse models developed for scrambling were streets ahead of the competition on the scrambles tracks of the world. But what are they like on the street asks Tim Britton?

  • Road Test: Triumph Metisse

    Road Test: Triumph Metisse

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    The Triumph Métisse models developed for scrambling were streets ahead of the competition on the scrambles tracks of the world. But what are they like on the street asks Tim Britton?

  • Clocks turned back at Classic TT Paddock Carnival

    Clocks turned back at Classic TT Paddock Carnival

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    The brand new Classic TT Paddock Carnival event has something for all the family with a jam-packed schedule of entertainment for people of all ages…

  • Iconic engines: Inter Norton

    Iconic engines: Inter Norton

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    Norton’s International overhead cam engine has been overshadowed slightly by the post Second World War Manx unit but, in various forms, was in the Norton range for much longer…

  • Road Test: SOS DW

    Road Test: SOS DW

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    Super Onslow Special and So Obviously Superior were two suggestions what the ‘SOS’ badge stood for. Whatever the terminology, the bike was an appeal to discriminating riders, to try something different in the lightweight utility market…


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