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3 Nelson Piquet Rio 2003 MotoGP
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40 Le Mans France 2011 MotoGP
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28 Nelson Piquet Rio 2003 MotoGP
13 Sepang Circuit Malaysia 2006 MotoGP
35 Phillip Island Australia 2005 MotoGP
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3 Assen Netherlands 2012 MotoGP
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16 Phillip Island Australia 2012 MotoGP
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10 Laguna Seca United States 2012 MotoGP
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Do Quickshifters Have a Negative Effect on Gearbox Life

Do Quickshifters Have a Negative Effect on Gearbox Life

QUESTION: Do quickshifters have a negative effect on gearbox life? Tim Askew CycleWorld.com ANSWER: Anyone with gearbox-service experience knows that the dogs that engage on the first-to-second upshift get the worst hammering. The reason? The first-to-second shift has the largest rpm difference....

Published on July 4 2015, 18:07
Source: www.cycleworld.com
 
 

A good friend once told me he liked to have his finger hovering over the proverbial eject button in life, even though he never had any intention of using it. The feeling it conveyed to him was, of course, that he could chuck it all at any time and somehow live "free." The BMW GS series has... 

It's 7am at Utah Motorsports Campus on Day One of a three-day MotoAmerica race weekend. Being my overly punctual self, I've shown up at the track too early, but it's given me a unique opportunity to watch the teams arrive and get set up. As I walk around the paddock, I can hear the sounds of a... 

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Long and short of it, I needed new motivation. I really believed I could fight for the world championship, like I proved to myself this year. Deep down inside, I always knew I needed a factory bike to do that. Every season I would go away and re-motivate myself. I came back with more... 

After an absence of some three weeks or so, the MotoGP teams once again return to action at Sepang for the second official test of the pre-season. The intervening period has seen a flurry of activity in the factories in Japan and Italy, and at CRT team headquarters around Europe. The data... 

For the 2018 model year, Aprilia is updating two long-time members of its lineup, creating in the process the Dorsoduro 900 and Shiver 900 motorcycles. Today we will focus on what it is like to ride the Shiver 900, though many of our thoughts about this updated roadster are similar to those we...