Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

A little less conversation, a little more action...

Well, now we know. For as long as there have been racers and race engineers, the substance of the conversations between the two in the pits during practice has been the stuff of myth and mythtery. It goes like this: rider comes in from hot lap, passes his bike into the hands of a team technician (or, in the case of 250 GP championship runner-up Carlos Cardús at Phillip Island in 1990, broadsides into the pit box and throws his title-losing, broken-down Honda at the nearest member of

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