A Moving Tribute To My Father's Racing Career
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Small-Bore Slicing And Dicing With Washington's Group W Racing
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Remembering The Good Old Days
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Who Says You Can't Go Home Again?
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The Bike That Changed My Life.
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Read about NASCAR driver Sam Hornish Jr.'s 2007 Honda CBR1000RR
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Four Philosophies, One Purpose
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"I rode factory Yamaha Superbikes in 1986 and '87 and we didn't have much luck. Yamaha pulled out of racing in '88 and I was left without a ride. I had a new family, a two-year-old son and I just bought my first home, so I was really scrambling for something, anything, to jumpstart my career. Jerry
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World Motorcycles Boss Vic World Promised To Assemble A New And Genuine 1969 Honda CB750 K0 In Front Of The Cameras - And In A Day. How Could We Resist?
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It's a crazy mix, for sure. But stare at this wild Japanese/European hybrid for a minute and tell us it isn't one of the slickest meldings of modern and classic you've ever seen.
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Honda VFR800F InterceptorRingleader: Marty EstesMsrp: $10,499 (2006)Miles: 7892-10,784Average Fuel Mileage: 36.3 mpgAccessories & Modifications: Metzeler Sportec M-1 tires
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"My 9-5 day job is delivering documents that need filing in courthouses. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights I deliver food for the Thai East Wind restaurant in Marina del Rey. I use my RC51 for both! I had it brand-new in 2003 and bought it because it's a championship-winning bike; I love racing and
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Read more about Elspeth Beard the first Englishwoman to ride a motorcycle around the world.
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Who says you can't go back in time? If you're three-time world champion Freddie Spencer, all it takes is a phone call from Honda and a few days later it's 1985 all over again. There you are, standing on pit lane at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit in Japan, blipping the throttle in preparation for a few
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"Put the two of us in a sack, I don't know which one would crawl out first. Right, sweetie?" Lazy maybe Monday morning in the Hotel Paraiso, and neither Ooh La La nor I are in any hurry to get out from under the mosquito net. She, because it's her once-a-week day off, and me, because, well, I'm scoo
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Even before the paramedics burst into the room, things had not been going according to plan. I'd hardly eaten for three days, I felt sick to my stomach, and it was getting worse. That morning, under the heading "Ugly Thoughts," I scribbled in my notebook: "If I continue to feel like I have the last
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How does it feel to win the Red Bull USGP for the second year in a row? "Better than last year, if that's possible," said Repsol Honda's Nicky Hayden, and he should know. "Last year was perfect and it all came pretty easy, but this year I really had to work for it. We were chasing the right setting
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Honda's first dip into the current naked-bike pool had a couple of problems: At $7999, it wasn't exactly cheap, and saddled with a coat of flat-black paint called Asphalt, it was less than visually electrifying. More engaging colors came with ensuing model years, but American riders never embraced t
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At Daytona in 1982, a Honda mechanic fettles a CB900F-based Superbike ridden by one Frederick Burdette Spencer Jr. (over mechanic's left shoulder). Spencer won the Daytona Superbike race, then left to go ride 500 GP bikes in Europe. At the time, AMA Superbike racing was made memorable by the emergin
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"These bikes are all so good, I have no idea how you pick a winner."
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George Beale's re-creation of Honda's epic RC174 Six
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When Honda created its fabled six-cylinder racebikes in the 1960s, it was pushing back the frontiers of the technically possible. Honda's attitude was that if its engineers could imagine it, they could build it-and it would win. The machines they created were the two-wheeled equivalent of the Apollo
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An exquisite balance of power and weight that's astonishingly accurate in the steering department, Honda's CBR954RR remains one of the most underrated sportbikes of the last decade.
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Motorcycles are only half the reason we do this. The other half is the people who ride them--people like Curtis Herrmann. Back in July 2001, Curtis had been riding and racing dirtbikes for about a year when his sister Breeana--16 months younger--died of a brain t
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Editor's note: Think you've been on some long rides? Not compared to Keith Kimber and Tania Brown, who left England planning a two-up, four-year ride around the world only to return 17 years (and more than 35 tires) later, still riding their original Honda CX5
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