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Goodwood Festival Celebrates BSB in 2008
4 Days ago
Over the weekend of the 11 – 13 July, the Goodwood Festival of Speed will celebrate the UK’s role in providing a high-profile, competitive environment for the world’s top manufacturers and star riders by commemorating the success of the most competitive domestic motorcycle racing series in the world, the British Superbike Championship. Goodwood aims to gather together one of the largest collections of significant machinery and famous riders from the renowned championship that has ever been seen. Expect to see great champions such as Terry Rymer on his 1990 championship winning Loctite Yamaha OW01, Jamie Whitham riding Niall Mackenzie’s 1998 championship winning Cadbury’s Boost Yamaha YZF750 and John Reynolds on his 2004 championship winning Rizla Suzuki GSX-R1000.
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Take A Ride To The Dark Side With Triumph’s Matt Black Speed Triple
25 April 2008
Triumph Motorcycles has introduced a mean and moody Matt Black colour option to accentuate the popular Speed Triple’s aggressive, stripped down looks and make it stand out even further from the crowd.
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Spyder Club Opens For Business at Donington Park
09 April 2008
Spyder Club provides a different and exciting concept in motorcycle riding enjoyment by giving members the opportunity to ride the machines of their dreams without the usual hassles and costs of ownership.
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An Event You Can’t Miss - Ducati Speed Week
14 January 2008
The Ducati Speed Week returns also in the 2008, the historical event dedicated to the twins of Borgo Panigale. For the third consecutive year, the event will be held on the amazing race track of Pannonia, in Hungary, one of the most enjoyable of Europe for the two wheels.
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Spies Nominated For Top Award
16 November 2007
AMA Superbike and Superstock Champion Ben Spies has been nominated for the prestigious AMA Pro Racing SPEED Athlete of the Year award. The Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000 rider, who retained his SBK title this year after a season-long battle with team-mate Mat Mladin, is amongst five hopefuls in line for the award, which will be presented this Sunday at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino.
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AMA Pro Speed Athlete Of The Year Nominees Announced
16 November 2007
Five standout riders have been nominated to receive the prestigious AMA Pro Racing SPEED Athlete of the Year award which will be presented at the AMA Pro Racing Championship Awards Banquet this Sunday, Nov. 18. Dating back to 1976, the award is the highest honor bestowed to a professional motorcycle racer competing in AMA-sanctioned racing. Past recipients of the award include such legendary names as Bob Hannah, Scott Parker and Kenny Roberts, among others.
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DfT ‘Think!’ Rural Speed Campaign
04 October 2007
The Motorcycle Action Group (MAG UK) supports the new Government ‘Think!’ campaign to raise motorist’s awareness of the dangers of speeding on rural roads. The campaign highlights that in rural areas accidents often involve single vehicles suggesting that drivers are travelling in excess of the speed limit or travelling too fast for conditions. In 2006 325 car drivers were killed on rural roads. As vulnerable road users motorcyclists are often the victims of dangerous, careless and aggressive driving which is exacerbated when that driver behaviour takes place on narrow roads with high hedgerows and limited visibility.
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Countdown To Goodwood Festival Of Speed
15 June 2007
Honda’s impressive racing heritage will again be displayed at this year’s Festival of Speed, with performances from two and four wheeled legends. Three milestone cars from Honda’s Collection Hall in Japan are making the trip to West Sussex, along with eight legendary bikes, including three Isle of Man TT-winning motorcycles. If that’s not enough, the JAS Motorsport Civic Type-R will be tearing up the hill with Honda F1 test driver Christian Klien at the wheel. Jenson Button will also be taking his 2007 ride along; the Honda RA107 Formula 1 car.
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Chris Pfeiffer At Goodwood This Summer
25 May 2007
The 37-year-old German stunt-rider is the current Indoor Freestyle World Champion and was the 2006 Stunt Wars winner in Florida USA. Chris will be giving sensational displays of his trick riding skills at the Day of Champions at Donington Park on Thursday 21 June, and the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Hampshire from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 June. The Day of Champions is the annual fund-raiser for the Riders for Health charity, which trains African health workers to ride and maintain motorcycles so they can reach remote rural communities with vital healthcare. The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a hillclimb event which is quite possibly the biggest and most diverse celebration of two and four-wheeled motorsport in the world, both perfect venues for Chris to perform his spectacular show.
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Speed Channel – Superbike World Championship Deal Extended Through 2009
15 December 2006
SPEED has renewed its contract with FGSPORT®, the Organizers and Rights Holder of the FIM SBK Superbike World Championship®, signing a deal that keeps the high-powered series on the network through 2009. FIM World Superbike was the network’s charter racing series when SPEED went on the air as Speedvision in 1996.
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Team Alstare at Goodwood
11 July 2006
Team Alstare Suzuki Corona Extra made their first visit to the prestigious Festival of Speed at Goodwood recently and enjoyed the experience so much that they want to do it again next year. The Festival of Speed is one of the most famous motorsports events on the calendar and over 150,000 spectators make the pilgrimage to the Sussex town each year to see the top stars of F1, MotoGP and World Superbike close up.
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Vermeulen To Star At Goodwood On Sheene’s Bike
07 July 2006
Rizla Suzuki MotoGP star Chris Vermeulen will be riding at this weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed in England, onboard the Suzuki that powered Barry Sheene to his first GP victory. Coming straight from his front row qualification at last weekend’s British Grand Prix, Vermeulen will be riding Sheene’s 1975 Suzuki XR-14 over the famous Goodwood hill-climb course. The rookie Australian counts Sheene as his biggest hero and one of the reasons that he took up road racing, and is delighted to have been given the opportunity to ride the bike.
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John Reynolds Takes To The Hill At Goodwood
06 July 2006
Triple British Superbike Champion John Reynolds will be riding his 2004 Championship winning Rizla Suzuki GSX-R1000 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend. It will be the first time that fans favourite JR will have ridden a Superbike since his retirement last October and he is excited at the prospect of riding up the famous 1.16-mile long Goodwood hill-climb course.
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Ducati Corse To Appear At Goodwood Festival Of Speed
05 July 2006
The 2006 Goodwood Festival of Speed will see Ducati represented by two fabulous machines with world famous riders on board. The Ducati Corse Moto GP Team will be bringing their two-seater MotoGP bike based on the Desmosedici GP6. It will be ridden ‘up the hill' by GP legend Randy Mamola. The bike is very similar to those ridden by Loris Capirossi and Sete Gibernau, but with two seats offering VIPs at selected events a unique, once in a lifetime experience of riding pillion with GP winner Randy Mamola as their pilot.
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BMW Motorrad at the Goodwood Festival of Speed
30 June 2006
For the first time in 14 years, the legendary Goodwood Festival of Speed will not clash with any major motorcycle races, which means one of the best turnouts from the biking world that the event has ever seen. BMW Motorrad UK will once again play a part in the annual celebration, which takes place on 7,8 and 9 July at Goodwood House near Chichester, East Sussex.
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Honda's Casey Stoner At Goodwood '06'
19 May 2006
Casey Stoner, one of Honda's up-and-coming young talents in MotoGP will be one of the two-wheeled attractions at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. The young Australian, who raced in the UK and won the 2001 British 125cc title, will be riding his Team LCR RC211V at the prestigious event. He will be joined by a host of Honda stars over the weekend of July 7th-9th, including 2004 World Superbike champion James Toseland and his Winston Ten Kate Honda Fireblade and HM Plant teamsters Karl Harris and Ryuichi Kiyonari on their Honda Racing CBR1000RRs.
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Curtain Completes Yamaha's Century Of Supersport Podiums
24 April 2006
Yamaha scored its 100th podium finish in the Supersport World Championship with a second place for Yamaha Motor Germany's Kevin Curtain in Valencia today. Curtain's podium makes Yamaha the first manufacturer to reach that milestone in a class in which it has consistently been strong. Massimo Meregalli's win at Misano in 1997 was the manufacturer's first podium finish in the class and since then Yamaha has gone on to win three manufacturer and a rider's world title with Yamaha Motor Germany's Jörg Teuchert in 2000.
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Two Million Camera Cropper!
13 April 2006
A new report shows that Speed cameras are costing the British public a staggering £150 million a year plus. The revenue coming in from fines alone come to more than £114 million and higher insurance premiums are bringing in up to £36 million. The amount of speeding convictions have trebled over the last ten years, convicting 2.2 million motorists.
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BOS Silencers for Triumph Speed Triple 1050
06 March 2006
Dutch exhaust specialists BOS have developed a stunning street-legal silencer for the Triumph Speed Triple that is nearly half the weight of the factory fitted units. Available in either aluminium or carbon fibre, the BOS silencers weigh 5KG and 5.3 KG respectively for the pair, which is between 49% and 46% lighter than the stock items. Yet they are e-marked for road use and close inspection reveals that quality has not been compromised.
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Speed Camera Blunder Clocks Tractor At 85MPH
19 January 2006
Speed camera bosses have had to apologised to a farmer after they tried to fine him for doing 85 miles per hour in a tractor, it emerged today. Steve Crossman, who farms in Wiltshire, was puzzled when he received a ticket saying he had been snapped by a camera in Wales. But he was even more surprised when he realised that he was being fined for speeding in his tractor.
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