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What is Motorcycle Rake and Trail?
An idiot’s guide to the main factors in frame, steering and chassis design. Read this, and you’ll be as happy chatting about rake, trail, wheelbase and fork offset, as you are about midrange grunt…
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TEAM CLASSIC SUZUKI REVEALS GSX-R1000 K1 RACER
Team Classic Suzuki has revealed its latest race bike build; a first generation GSX-R1000 built to contest European Endurance Cup rounds... And it looks super-sexy!
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The 2-Stroke vs 4-Stroke Dirt Bike Conundrum
Three out of the four major Japanese motocross manufacturers have ditched two-stroke dirt bikes in favour of four-strokes… Does that spell the end of 2-stroke dirt bikes?
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Triumph Motocross Leaked Video and New Test Riders Announced
Triumph Racing will debut in the MXGP/MX2 and SuperMotocross World Championships in 2024 with two top class riders leading its race development testing (also contains a leaked video of the bike in action)...
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Triumph Speed Triple Buyers Guide
The original Speed Triple was, basically, a Daytona 900 with no fairing and a simple round headlamp; the ‘Striple 900’ inhabited a weird nether region between steady budget naked roadsters and full-on sports machinery of the 90s...
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Bucket List Motorcycle Tours: New Zealand
It’s been a dream of mine since I passed my Cat A test in 2001 to go on a motorcycle tour of New Zealand. Fast forward 21 years and 3 children later (not to mention a few extra lbs and grey hairs) my dream finally became a reality...
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Watchlist Wednesday Honda FireBlade CBR929RR-Y (2000-2001)
This week on ebay we are looking at the first fuel-injected ‘Blade. The Yamaha R1 and Suzuki GSX-R1000 had it beat then. But 20 years later, how does it stack up? We’re looking at one on ebay…
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Project 700: Making the Megalodon
In 2010 the word on the street was that Maico – the former German powerhouse of the 70’s and 80’s – were to make a comeback to the MX mainstream with a 700cc two-stroke…