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  • Suzuki’s Katana Endurance Racer

    Suzuki’s Katana Endurance Racer

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    There’s an understandable beam of pride that comes from Tim Davies and Nathan Colombi when either of the two men talk about the Suzuki GB/Team Classic Suzuki Katana race bike – and it could be

  • Lansdowne Season End

    Lansdowne Season End

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    The last two meetings of the year, both with the CRMC, were at the Donington Festival in August and their Race of the Year at Brands in October. Donington was a four-race programme with 41

  • Thermals? Check. ‘I’m just popping out, dear’

    Thermals? Check. ‘I’m just popping out, dear’

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    All that well-intentioned squit last month I wrote about workshop jobs to do? Well, I, er, there’s an issue. You see, as lucky as it is working around bikes, you are constantly reminded just how

  • Passion fruit

    Passion fruit

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    Recently, I found myself sitting with cleverer people talking about motorcycle racing. Yes, I quite agree – finding people cleverer about racing than me is not exactly the world’s toughest task – the average empty

  • YZR500 The OW60 family line

    YZR500 The OW60 family line

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    Yamaha’s RD56 factory racer which took Phil Read to the 1964 250cc World title really did use a disc-valve motor which profited from MZ technology – purloined by Suzuki from the DDR’s MZ, by enabling

  • Lone Rider: around the world by BMW

    Lone Rider: around the world by BMW

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    Back in the early 1980s, Elspeth Beard took her broken heart, packed up her BMW airhead boxer, and rode it

  • Sexy Suzuki RGV500 rebuilt!

    Sexy Suzuki RGV500 rebuilt!

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    Kevin Schwantz’s 1989 Pepsi Suzuki RGV500 was restored to full working order at the recent Motorcycle LIVE event. The iconic Grand Prix machine was completely stripped, before being carefully and meticulously restored by Team Classic

  • Anniversary Blade book coming!

    Anniversary Blade book coming!

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    The 25th anniversary of the Honda FireBlade (or Fireblade post-2004) was in 2017 and a new Mortons’ bookazine is coming along in 2018 to celebrate this fact. Written by our own editor Bertie Simmonds, it

  • Mackenzie Hodgson Insurance

    Mackenzie Hodgson Insurance

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    Triple British Superbike Champion Niall Mackenzie and World Superbike Champion Neil Hodgson have become insurance salesmen! With many race and former race stars fronting up big bike insurance companies for their own gain, this is

  • Honda Valkyrie

    Honda Valkyrie

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    Honda’s six-cylinder ‘power cruiser’ certainly turned heads when it arrived two decades ago. It turned out to be an inspired

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