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    SUPERBIKE SPANKING

    Aug 18, 2018 6 minutes
    WORDS: DANGEROUS
    IMAGES: PICMAN

    When I was growing up I wanted to be a superbike racer, but that turned out to be hard work so I took up writing instead. Thankfully my mate put the graft in, and when he grew up he bagged a ride on the Hawk Suzuki superbike… and then he let me test it. Friends don’t come much better than Richard Cooper who, following a simply awesome year for the Hawk Racing team on a stocker last season, got the coveted ride to partner Brad Ray on the factory-backed BSB Suzukis in 2018.

    It’s a bike that’s now been in development since the start of last year and has garnered several wins from several different riders. If you’re wondering how they’ve got it so good so quickly the answers are manifold. The main one, however, is that the men behind the magic, Stuart and Steve Hicken, know a thing or two about making bikes go fast, and

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