Motorcycle Sport & Leisure

Technology has a cost

A friend once proposed a theory of economics based upon the displacement of motorcycles. He observed that as sought-after bikes swelled toward a litre’s displacement, you could be sure that economic collapse was coming soon. Around the year 2000, litre bikes became Japan’s big push. In 2002 the first 990cc MotoGP formula began, and a year later, World Supers adopted a straight 1000cc limit.

Sure enough, here came 2008, when the efforts of finance men to transform the

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