Classic Racer

What’s it like to ride?

Where each successive version had felt like the powered-up progeny of the previous year, the world champion Honda had a character all of its own. Riding Kocinski’s RC45 first underlined this. To make this bike motor, I had to ride it like the four-stroke GP racer it had become. Maybe that’s why Li’I John took to it so quickly, as he was the only man, until Max Biaggi more than a decade

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