R.I.P., Production GP Racebike - Part 3, Or Sympathy For The RC213V-RS

"It is honestly hard to figure out if the RC213V-RS was a good or bad bike at its core, because it came hamstrung from Day One with an inability to control its temper ..."

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R.I.P., Production GP Racebike - Part 2

"Between the Yamaha and Honda machines, private teams had genuine GP machines at their disposal, designed to allow a variety of riders to perform well on them and to run on a lower operating budget ..."

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R.I.P., Production GP Racebike - Part 1

"A look back at some of the notable production GP racers of the modern era might provide some insight as to how GP racing has changed, why the RC213V-RS was so evil and how the current rules have made the production GP racer extinct ..."

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World Superbike 2015 Review, Part 7: 2016

"Sometimes a simple, careful evolution is better than revolution. And sometimes revolution makes everything else instantly obsolete ..."

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World Superbike 2015 Review, Part 6: Kawasaki

"It was a shaped charge aimed at blowing a hole through every barrier to success, and it worked ..." 

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World Superbike 2015 Review, Part 5: The Rest

"With that hand-me-down powerplant system gone, the satellite squads that made up such an important part of the WSBK paddock are now truly the poor cousins of the factory teams ..." 

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World Superbike 2015 Review, Part 4: Ducati

" ... it is completely defensible to argue that a change in results was solely due to the changes in the rules. And the results did change ..." Click the "Words" tab above ...