The Strange Case Of Phillip Island

"What do you learn from testing at Phillip Island? How to go fast at Phillip Island. What do you learn about going fast elsewhere from testing at Phillip Island? Not very much ..."

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Ed Talks About Your Head - Shoei X-Fourteen Review

Read racer Ed Sorbo's review of the new Shoei X-Fourteen here:

http://www.le-suspension.com/lindemann-engineering/shoei-x-fourteen/

The Black Art Of Racing Vehicle Design, Part 4 (Conclusion)

"The truly maddening thing to the race vehicle designer is that even if the machine is perfect on the CAD/CAM screen, one rider will love it and another can't get along with it. Switch something, and suddenly the riders switch positions ... "

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The Black Art Of Racing Vehicle Design, Part 3

"For all the rhetoric last year, the Honda wasn't a disaster. You want disasters? Go back and look at the NR500. Or the first NSR500 with the gas tank below the engine and the expansion chambers over the top. THOSE bikes were disasters. Last year's 'disaster' won seven races ..."

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The Black Art Of Racing Vehicle Design, Part 2

"Yamaha's not the only manufacturer to make this work. The current Kawasaki ZX-10R in WSBK looks a lot like the machine the manufacturer has been racing for several years. Slow, steady evolution has a lot of advantages ..."

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The Black Art Of Racing Vehicle Design, Part 1

"Gigi managed to get his bike a ton of publicity with an innovation that could have been remarkably cheap to create ... The bike wasn't winning anyway, so why not (metaphorically) put a little money on a longshot of an innovation?"

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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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