Classic Racer magazine celebrates the greatest racers and racing motorcycles in history, where motorcycle-racing legends truly live on.
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2000 SUZUKI RGV500 XR89
Alan Cathcart with the full story of how the smallest of Japanese Grand Prix factories refined their V4 500cc beast and used the talents of Kenny Roberts Junior to take the Y2K world championship.
STUART HICKEN
Not just a team and circuit manager with many accolades behind him – also a handy racer, suspension expert and his autobiography is out soon!
ICONIC METAL: 1962 HONDA RC170
Terry Joslin’s camera and Vince Rank’s prose tell us about this stop-gap bit of engineering from Honda and how it helped Jim Redman to a 350cc world title…
BARRY SHEENE’S FIRST 500 WIN
Stuart Barker reminds us that it’s 50 years since Sheene and Suzuki took the top-step of a 500cc Grand Prix podium. It would be the stepping-stone to Barry’s two world titles.
