Cyberfit Jacket
Italian bike kit firms all have pretty classy design departments. But Spidi has a definite style of its own, with a much more mature, modern, simple feel to many of its products. That's exemplified by something like this Cyberfit jacket, which combines sharp, modish design cues, with sober, classic colour-schemes. It's modern enough to go with a sportsbike. yet makes a sound match for a naked roadster or tourer. Spidi is also right on the cutting-edge in terms of technology. So the Cyberfit is...
Races Are Won In The Mind
Was it a marriage made in heaven When Brains' got back with 'Norge' after breaking up three years earlier, was it written on the wind Was it destiny Was it simply meant to be What the hell are we on about here Well, Mark Brains' Woodage is the chief engineer at Parkalgar Honda and is the man working closest to his rider Eugene Norge' Laverty in the Parkalgar Honda world supersport team. Early results in 2009 have been promising for the team, but it's not the first time they've worked together...
Anything But Normal
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Dunlop Qualifier Ii
Launched just too late to make it full-blown into this issue read more next month the latest cover-all tyre from Dunlop was launched recently Contact 0121 306 6000 www.dunlopmotorcycle.co.uk The Qualifier II occupies such a broad range in the sports tyre market it's in danger of doing other Dunlop tyres out of a job. With the very successful Roadsmart below it and Qualifier RR above it, Dunlop is aiming for road and sports tyre domination. Our man JP was at Dunlop's southern French test...
Honda Nr500 Grand Prix Racer
Despite the fact that Grand Prix racing was dominated by two-strokes in the late 1970s, Honda wanted to race what it sold and announced that it would be contesting the 1978 world championship with its radical, oval-piston, four-stroke NR500 Ithe NR stood for new racing' . The bike didn't appear until a year later at the 1979 British Grand Prix and, after alt the speculation and anticipation, Honda suffered the humiliation of its great white hope crashing out at the very first corner. D'oh...
Norton Nemesis V8
With hindsight, we should all have been a lot more sceptical when Norton announced its return not with a straightforward and achievable superbike, but with an outrageous V8 that was set to be the fastest and most powerful motorcycle in the world. But maybe because we all wanted to believe in it so much we got carried away with the idea. The Norton Nemesis even had a cool name and when a mock-up was displayed at the NEC show in 1998, and weekly scandal-sheet Motor Cycle News announced it had...
Rockingham Circuit
Since most of the UK's racing circuits are modified World War II airfields or parklands, we Brits don't often get the chance to enjoy purpose-built-from-scratch facilities like the rest of the world. In fact, the last purpose-built circuit to have opened in Britain was Brooklands in Surrey, way back in 1907. So when it was announced in the late 1990s that 50 million was being spent on a brand new state-of-the-art racing circuit in Corby, Northants, and that it was being designed with bikes in...
Pro Bolt Titanium And Stainless Bolts
It's clearly a month for simple but clever ideas. Here's another one, which makes rear wheel changes a breeze. The Pitstop Pal is basically a pair of nylon discs with a central threaded section. You screw the discs together, and slip the unit under your rear wheel with the bike on a stand . Then unscrew the two halves until the weight of the wheel is supported. You can then remove the axle, chain and brake caliper with ease. It's also a breeze to put the wheel back in - no more trying to...
Oulton Park
HOME TO THREE OF THE TIGHTEST FINISHES IN BSB HISTORY Raceday gate M Mon 4 May 28 Qualifying gate M Sun 3 May 12 Practice gate M Sat 2 May 10 Weekend online M 2-4 May 28 Advance tickets available up until midday Wednesday 29 April. Postage fee applies. 499 stainless Javelin and carbon Mega Gun The Rising Sun logos and flawless welding would have you thinking these are Japanese pipes. Don i Jail for it The logo looks Japanese, the name sounds Japanese, and if you saw these welds on a Japanese...
Ducaticlassic
Spring has sprung, the sap is rising and sometimes you just can't help yourself on the first sunny March morning. And to prove that you don't need a bazillion horsepower, we snapped this cheeky rider on a Ducati Sport 1000 S on the A272 near, oh, let's say a section of closed road south of Cheesefoot Head. Really
O Team Profile Parkalgar Honda
y the Parkalgar seat but opted for a factory' team. The thing is, says Parkalgar team manager Simon Buckmaster, our bike is better. And I can say that for a fact. Look at the results in world supersport in recent years, the Honda is a better bike, a better package. The first two supersport races of the 2009 season were all-Honda podiums But, at the same time as Laverty was toiling in the 250GP class, Woodage had also skipped the British paddock, doing time with the ill-fated llmor team in...
O Team Profile Parkalgar Honda 1
6dron THE OPENING TWO RACES OF THE WORLD amp o SUPERSPORT CHAMPIONSHIP DEMONSTRATED THAT ue PARKALGAR BIKES ARE AT LEAST AS QUICK AS THE HITHERTO-UNTOUCHABLE TEN KATE HONDAS give you wings. Laverty right and Praia inset almost self-perpetuating. If you are successful, you win races and championships. When you win, you get big sponsors and you generate more money and, if you are smart, you have a business 'racing' rather than desperately looking for sponsors who you hope will fund your racing....