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In a rich history of ‘racer-replicas’ they don’t get much better than this… Racing surely improves the breed, which is why road-riders have enjoyed the benefits of technology trickling down to their mounts: think of Suzuki’s 1980s endurance racers an

Some of the fittest sportsmen on the planet in the 1980s and 90s were backed by cigarette companies… Be it a 500cc, 250cc or 125cc Grand Prix bike or a circa 1990s British Superbike, some of the biggest teams in racing had fag backing. The irony was

Simon Crafar has the strange honour of being the best rider never to have won a World Superbike race, and yet when he went to 500cc GPs he became one of the few to beat the dominant Mick Doohan… Crafar was Malaysian Superbike champion in 1991 and he

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To race on the Isle of Man Mountain circuit has been the ambition of generations of club racers, and in the early postwar years demand for entries invariably exceeded the number available. From 1947 the Clubman’s TT enabled a good number of aspiring

Thirty years ago, on July 12, 1992, a modern two-wheeled fairytale came true. In a brave and tactically brilliant display of wet-weather riding on a drying track, four-time World champion (three with Yamaha, one with Honda) Eddie Lawson won the 500cc

The Jefferies Dynasty, at least as far as motorcycling goes, reaches back almost to the advent of the motorcycle itself. David Jefferies’ great grandfather, Joseph, was a picture framer by trade but was also something of a visionary as far as motoris

Continuing from part one, Irimajirisan and I were enjoying a motorcycle ride in rural Japan, and I loved the fact that I could experience a side of Japanese life that most people will rarely see. I was riding a BMW R1200 RT and Irimajirisan a BMW R12

Kork Ballington, along with his girlfriend Bronwyn, and brother Dozy felt like lambs going to the slaughter as they set off for Europe. The bikes and tools had been dispatched by sea – the team of greenhorns flew out of South Africa to meet the kit.

Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, has often put that country on the world motorcycle map. One such story concerns the ‘Dukes of Wellington’ along with rider Robert Holden, who gained world prominence in a career that spanned the 1980s and early

The next issue of Classic Racer is on sale on December 15. The editor reserves the right to move things about a bit, depending on space available to bring you the best motorcycle racing features from across many decades! So don’t moan at him if somet

We really like these subtle and classy two-stroke timepieces! Each Moto Culture watch represents a particular 500cc Grand Prix team that we supported during those halcyon days of the late 1980s/early 1990s. Yes, this was a true golden age of 500cc Gr