Sports Bikes
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More power, more revs for Moto2…
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On the eve of the British Grand Prix, Triumph announced a raft of developments to the 765cc triple Moto2™ engine, derived from the production Street Triple RS, to increase revs, power and performance. Increase of 5 PS from the 2023 Moto2™ season, an extra 400rpm Development areas include pistons, cylinder head, valves, camshafts, crank Aim…
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Glyn’s Yamaha R1
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Feast your eyes on this weapon. It’s extra in every sense of the word, and when it comes to trackday bikes, they don’t come much tricker than this…
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Kawasaki Prepares For Suzuka 8 Hours with a cracking team…
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The Suzuka 8 Hours EWC event will soon get underway in Japan, having been cancelled due to the pandemic for the past two years. The Kawasaki entry will features several members of the KRT WorldSBK squad combining riding talent from both WorldSBK and BSB paddocks. WorldSBK KRT riders Jonathan Rea and Alex Lowes will be…
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The O’Show: Jason O’Halloran
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Jason took the British Superbike championship by storm last year, racking up 22 podiums and 11 wins, only to narrowly miss out on the title at the end of the season. With his eyes set on taking the 2022 championship, we caught up with him…
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1998: The ‘Roman Emperor’ enters the arena…
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Steve Cooper remembers… The year 1998 has probably gone down as one of Honda’s most dominant years and for good reason – the firm pretty much mopped up the vast majority of points available by taking the top five places in the championship race. Honda’s star was definitely in the ascendant and, quite rightly, most…
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Nice gift for Guintoli!
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Suzuki has presented a Yoshimura SERT Motul replica Hayabusa to endurance world champion and MotoGP test rider Sylvain Guintoli, to celebrate the Frenchman’s titles and contribution to Suzuki’s racing successes in recent years. Despite doing his racing on a GSX-R1000, Guintoli has always expressed a fondness for the Hayabusa and the smoothness of its 1340cc,…
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Rea signs new two-year extension with Kawasaki
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Kawasaki has announced that six-times WorldSBK champion Jonathan Rea has signed a two-year contract extension to race inside the official Kawasaki Racing Team (KRT), continuing the successful partnership that began in 2015. After taking over 100 WorldSBK race wins on Kawasaki machinery Jonathan has shown characteristically high levels of motivation and confidence in the future…
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Coming Soon: Next generation Yamaha R1?
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Leaked documents seem to suggest that there’s a new version of Yamaha’s flagship R1 sportsbike coming in the not-too-distant future. This is what we know so far. It might only feel like Yamaha refreshed its R1 yesterday, but actually, the Japanese firm’s top-of-the-line sportsbike was last updated properly in 2019. That’s why there’s talk that…
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Yamaha Racing Heritage Club Revved Up for Sachsenring Classic
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The Yamaha Racing Heritage Club is gearing up for the ADAC Sachsenring Classic on the 15th-17th of July, giving fans the chance to see legendary riders such as Giacomo Agostini, Dieter Braun, Christian Sarron, Jörg Teuchert and Sandro Cortese in action, along with their iconic race bikes. The YRHC was set up to safeguard and…
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Norton Motorcycles launches re-engineered V4SV
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Inspired by Norton’s 100 years of racing prowess and success at the Isle of Man TT, the new V4SV is finally here – and it will be the only British designed and built superbike in production.
