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HONDA CB500 RACING: Riders Ready?

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Carl Stevens

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5th April 2019

With less than a week to go our intrepid Rookie Racers, Gary and Charlie, have been doing their final runs, checks, tweaks and even paint jobs for the East Midlands Racing Associations (EMRA) ‘Bridgestone 500’ Championship. Here’s a quick catch up with the guys to see where their heads are at. Gary: “The build-up over…
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HONDA CB500 RACING: ROOKIE RACING PREPERATION – CHARLIE’S BLOG

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Carl Stevens

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21st March 2019

There are two very different sides to the team Bridgestone / Fast Bikes awning in terms of our CB500 race preparation. We are now three weeks away from Round 1 of EMRA at Mallory and Gary is tested, up to speed, focussed and chomping at the bit as he has already documented here. I too…
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HONDA CB500 RACING: ROOKIE RACING PREPERATION – GARY’S BLOG

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Carl Stevens

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15th March 2019

It’s all about the preperation…
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ROAD RACING MAKES A RETURN TO OLIVER’S MOUNT!

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Carl Stevens

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6th March 2019

Yep, you heard that right folks! Racing returns to the legendary 2.43 mile public road track once more… After months of speculation, it’s finally been confirmed by The Two Four Three Road Racing Association that two meetings will go ahead this year. First up is the Barry Sheene Classic on the 27th & 28th July…
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Rookie racing blog 1: riding my Honda ‘Pig’ with EMRA in the Bridgestone 500s

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Carl Stevens

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4th March 2019

It was around 6pm on Sunday 23 September when I decided that 2019 would be the year to enter my first ever full racing season on a 15-year-old Honda CB500. I won’t be alone. I shared an awning that day with Gary Hartshorne, a great friend who had convinced me to not only buy a…
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Jonathan Rea backS Arenacross for Schools event in Belfast

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Alan Dowds

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17th January 2019

Indoor motocross race series supported by WSB champ and ex-dirtbike ace WHAT WAS the best school trip you went on in primary school? Science museum? Day at the seaside? Visit to Alton Towers? Well, we reckon 200 kids in Belfast topped the lot this week, with a visit to the SSE Arena to watch the…
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Cal Crutchlow switches to HJC lids for 2019

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Alan Dowds

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3rd January 2019

Brit MotoGP hero moves from long term helmet supplier Arai. This is a bit of a surprise – Cal Crutchlow’s been an Arai man for as long as we can remember here, certainly back to his British Supersport days. A quick check in the archives shows him wearing AGV, OGK and Arashi before then, in…
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MEET BSB STARS AT DAINESE LONDON STORE’S XMAS PARTY

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Alan Dowds

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19th December 2018

Dan Linfoot, James Hillier and Bradley Ray headlining festive gig at City store IN THE big smoke tomorrow (Thursday Dec 20)? Then get thee to Shoreditch, and pop into the Dainese store on Commercial Street, where there’ll be food, drink and a load of Dainese’s BSB stars to schmooze. Dan Linfoot, Bradley Ray, James Hillier…
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HRC thanks Dani Pedrosa with free RCV211 and RS250RW

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Alan Dowds

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13th December 2018

Beats a gold carriage clock and a tin of Roses we reckon… WEE DANI Pedrosa is off to pastures new next year, and is set to see what he can do with the KTM MotoGP effort. After 18 years in Grand Prix racing, he’s starting as test rider for the orange team in 2019. He’s…
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OFFICIAL MotoGP 2018 review by Mat Oxley – out now!

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Alan Dowds

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5th December 2018

THEY NEED to move fast these end-of-year-review book folks. And with the 2018 MotoGP season consigned to history just over a fortnight ago, the official Dorna-sanctioned review is hot off the printers. Produced by Mat Oxley – arguably the best MotoGP scribe in the business – the 2018 review has 208 full colour pages of…
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Testing Times – MotoGP Thoughts from Jerez

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Carl Stevens

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30th November 2018

A line has been drawn under the year that was MotoGP 2018 with a 2-day test at the Circuito de Jerez.
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Here’s your new trackday bike for 2019 – a KTM RC16 MotoGP bike!

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Alan Dowds

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28th November 2018

IF YOU want to make a small fortune in racing, start out with a big one, goes the old saw.
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Classic TT 2019 to celebrate Steve Hislop’s legacy

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Alan Dowds

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23rd November 2018

AMAZINGLY, next year marks thirty years since much-missed TT hero Steve ‘Hizzy’ Hislop cracked the first 120mph lap round the TT. And to mark the great man’s contribution, the 2019 Classic TT will be dedicated to his memory, with commemorations dubbed ‘Back to the Future: the Hizzy years’ running throughout the event. There’ll be a…
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TT 2019 DATES ANNOUNCED

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Alan Dowds

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14th November 2018

WE ALL sort of know when the TT is – end of May, start of June, kinda, sorta. But it’s useful to know the exact dates so we can move silly things like weddings, births, dream holidays to make room for DAS TT RACES!! Thankfully, your old buddies here at Fast Bikes have their…
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Five reasons why we think Scott Redding will go well in BSB…

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Carl Stevens

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3rd October 2018

Yep, there’s another GP rider hitting the BSB paddock for 2019! Now, you all know by now that Scott Redding has joined the PBM team for 2019 to contest a Ducati Panigale V4 in the Bennetts British Superbike Championship, but there’s already a lot of talk about whether he’ll go well or not… even just…
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