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ESSAY: When is the Future Coming? Or, put another way, why are exotic materials of the future no longer being made?
Remember the future that was coming soon? Plastic engines would laugh at weight. Handbag-sized ceramic turbines would equal the power of 7-liter V-8s while sipping fuel. Nuclear power, too cheap to meter. Giant space cruisers, leaving for Alpha Centauri. It's grand to discover that chunks of the...
Published on August 6 2015, 20:27
Source: www.cycleworld.com
My friend, Andres Lascoutx, had his Yamaha TD1-B up to fifth place in the 1966 German GP when a carburetor slide guide vibrated apart and went into his engine. Back in the States, he seemed puzzled and even offended, saying, "Gyula Marsovszky is a fast guy, but he sleeps in ditches at the...
Access to information has been democratized by the internet, but access to powerful individuals remains a high bar for most. So, when we had a chance to sit down with one of BMW's upper-echelon execs and throw him some questions about Motorrad's current and future plans, we elbowed our way in....
When it comes down to it, it is always individual races which define an era. Silverstone 1979 defined the late 1970s, with Barry Sheene coming up just short of Kenny Roberts, a milestone in the American takeover of Grand Prix motorcycle racing. In 1983, at Anderstorp in Sweden, Freddie Spencer...
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The following is our second taste of the exclusive content that A&R Pro members can expect to read on a weekly basis at Asphalt & Rubber. This article focuses on a current and critical event that happened in the industry, which is something A&R Pro content will focus on. We could still see some...
In my article analyzing the Jerez private tests, which took an in-depth look at the times set by the WorldSBK bikes and the MotoGP bikes, I set out several reasons why I thought Jonathan Rea would not be moving to MotoGP, despite obviously being fast enough. Though Rea has good reasons of his...