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Evolution not revolution for Yam’s litre superbike, with high-rpm engine mods seemingly aimed at WSB improvements. Is it enough to top the league leaders though? Yamaha’s been ploughing its own superbike furrow for a decade now, with the crossplane crank big-bang configuration on its R1 engine. Having the uneven firing
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Good things come in threes, or so Yamaha would have us believe.
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THIS HAS just appeared at the old Yamaha 2019 Milan show launch event. It’s the most special R1 ever – and it’s limited to just TWENTY bikes – one for each year of R1 production. Dubbed the GYTR edition, it’s pretty much a straight replica of the Suzuka-winning machine from
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THERE’S more rejoicing in heaven for one sinner that repents than for 99 of the righteous, according to yer bible. And there’s more rejoicing in Fast Bikes Towers for one new sportsbike, no matter how small, than 99 retro shitters or silly customs. So we’re all over this – Yamaha’s
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The first bout of 2018 testing is complete for WSB, held at Jerez, as the circus prepares to move to Portimao for another couple of days whizzing round before jetting off to Oz for round one – just a single month away! So find here a lush gallery of snaps
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Following on from the MotoGP boys, the World Superbike circus has just finished its pre-season test program before the opening round next weekend. Although they did get a touch of dodgy weather, the sun did come out and shined down on the reigning champ, who finished the test ahead of
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After years of supplying MotoGP with rather grippy circular black things that go round and round, Bridgestone are not now kicking back, sinking some sake and resting on their laurels. Rather, they’re back in world series racing, specifically, the World Endurance Championship, to continue to drive their product forwards. Here’s
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We’ve just a few months left with our longterm Yamaha MT-10, and it’s been utterly brilliant, so here’s a quick round-up of what we’ve done to her thus far… Episode 1 – Time for some noise! BJ takes the bike to SP Engineering to get the first of two SP
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It’s all change in the British Superbike paddock for 2017! With the championship giving us some of the most exciting racing on two wheels, we give you the lowdown on who’s where so far for next year… BeWiser PBM Ducati: No change in the reigning champions camp, with Shane
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As Sepang was pretty special this weekend, we decided to give you guys a little gallery to feast your eyes on. So how about some riding style comparison? So who’s got the best style? We’re thinking Marquez for pure craziness but Jack Miller is pretty classic. But as
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It’s fair to say that the British Grand Prix was pretty special. Okay it wasn’t quite a fairytale for the Brits in Moto2 and Moto3, but we were hugely impressed with the lads in MotoGP. Firstly, a massive hats off to Cal Crutchlow. What an incredible ride, and he is
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We had some cracking racing from Sepang, with Sykes back on the top step in race one and Hayden crafting a beautiful maiden win in the class in a rather wet race 2. Rea managed to extend his championship lead, and although Lowes had a big off in race two,
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We’re back from the launch of the Yamaha MT-10, and boy have we got a report for you to read in the next issue. But before that we thought we’d furnish you with ten quick facts about then MT-10. 1. It uses the R1’s motor. Well, most of it. Yamaha
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This weekend we had a very interesting MotoGP at Jerez under that Spanish sun. So what (and who) went down? Who were the winners and losers? We give you a definitive round up of it all right here… Excitement factor: 5/10 – The Spanish Grand Prix is one that has
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This Winter has seem some of the most strenuous testing plans I’ve ever seen. A whole host of teams throwing copious amounts of rubber at the tarmac in return for that miniscule advantage; and it’s showing. At Donington (just testing remember) the top boys went quicker than the qualifying pace
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