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I'm buying the blue one.
I shall just pop out to the money tree and buy the black one
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Nice insight into the 07/08 R1
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Seeing as how I just got a new jacket, I'll have to have the red one
If you lie, no one will trust you.
If you tell the truth, no one will like you.
Some people accuse me of thinking the world revolves around me, but it doesn't. It revolves around the sun, which shines out my arse!!
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And Bruce will just have to have the black one... so we're all square then.
This sort of stuff is real racing. Imagine if stoner raced during these times..I wonder if he would be complaining again.....
Car vs Street Bike vs 500cc GP Bike
These greek guys are nuts.
A couple of R1s for those musically inclined
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An old clip 'Superbikers'... I thought Europe claimed to be the birthplace of supermoto... check these guys out!
I am trying to find history on a championship race that was run at the end of each year in the early 80's and 90's, known as the "Golden Handlebars", run in France.
It was an invitation only event, with the top 3 from each discipline (Moto-X, flat track, enduro, all of the GP classes and superbikes)
The idea was to see who was the best racer outright, as it was Supermoto as we now know it. I remember previous winners included Doohan, Spencer, and a shitload of dirtbike world champs...
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Video mix del campionato del mondo S2 2007 di supermotard...
Finally, some more info on the championship:
Supermoto Guidon D'or
From Wiki:
History
Supermoto has its origins in the 1970s where ABC’s Wide World of Sports was the highest-rated sports show in the United States. In 1979, ABC commissioned a made-for-TV event to be included in the series, named Superbikers, whose intention was to find the ultimate all-around motorcycle racer. Superbikers was then manifested as a yearly event run at southern California's Carlsbad Raceway. The show's tarmac-and-dirt courses were intended to draw on talent from the worlds of off-road, flat-track and road-racing. World and National Championship-winning motorcycling greats such as Kenny Roberts and Jeff Ward, whose respective sports at the time were road-racing and motocross, participated in the races. The Superbikers quickly became a huge Nielsen rating contender, running until 1985, at which point ABC was forced to cancel the show due to new management and cuts; its cancellation also initiated a long sabbatical of the sport in the USA. The European racers who participated in the sport at Carlsbad, however, brought it back to Europe with them, where it quickly gained popularity in countries such as France.
2003 signalled the resurrection of the sport in the United States with the birth of the AMA Supermoto championship and with the ESPN X-Games Supermoto championship.
Motard is the French word for Biker.
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I want one of these on my bike.
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It's funny, the general convention seems to be that in the USA it's motard, in europe it's moto... Motard being biker, moto being bike. Makes sense, given that the sport seems to have evolved out of the Superbiker championship.Originally Posted by Bruce
I always thought it was just the yanks being arrogant, referring to the riders as being super, while the europeans referred to the bikes being super...
http://www.supermotos1.com/obc/Andorra/Andorra.aspx
A lap of Andorra on a Husaberg
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watching this vid makes me really want one
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Yeah... 750 v-twin... I'm still not sure where it'll fit... it's too heavy to be in the class of the big thumpers or the 550 v-twin Aprillia, but probably a little low on cubes to be in the same class as the Hypermotard. Maybe we'll see Ducati release a smaller capacity Hypermotard, or perhaps we'll see a Dorsoduro 1000cc...
I worship the Chrome God
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Somehow i can't see them starting a racing series with them......
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