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  • 40 years of the Beast: How Suzuki’s GSX-R1100 rewrote the superbike rules

    40 years of the Beast: How Suzuki’s GSX-R1100 rewrote the superbike rules

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    Mark Lancaster

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    Suzuki’s beast of a bike – the GSX-R1100G first hit UK showrooms some 40 years ago. Bertie Simmonds looks back… The GSX-R750F of 1985 revolutionised sportsbike design, even if it used tried and tested technology, but by making the whole bike lighter… For the 1986 GSX-R1100, Suzuki applied very similar thinking. This bike weighed in…

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  • The cult of LC!

    The cult of LC!

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    Mark Lancaster

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    From the era that style forgot came a machine like no other: Yamaha’s RD350LC. What made this bike (and little brother and subsequent models) so well-loved? Bertie Simmonds explains… At the start of the 1980s, we were under the shadow of The Cold War, Thatcherism had been unleashed upon us, and unemployment was hitting two…

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