Classic Racer

YEAR: 1994//CIRCUIT: ALBACETE, SPAIN//CORNER: CURVA JORDI GENE// IT'S FAST, REALLY FAST. THE KAWASAKI HAS THE INSIDE LINE, READY FOR THE NEXT CORNER BUT HASN'T QUITE COUNTED ON THE TENACITY OF THE FACTORY RVF HONDA HOWLING AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF TURN

RIDER: DON EMDE//YEAR: 1971//CIRCUIT: DONINGTON//CORNER: START/FINISH STRAIGHT//WHEN RACES WERE WON AND LOST BY THE SMALLEST OF MARGINS, THERE'S NO ROOM TO MISS OUT ON ANYTHING THAT COULD GIVE YOU THE UPPER HAND. you cross the line to take the cheque

Words: Norm DeWitt Photographs: Dick Klamfoth, Mortons Archive Born in Sept 1928, Dick Klamfoth grew up on an Ohio farm. His earliest motorcycle adventures were on his 61cc Harley-Davidson. After graduating from high school in 1946, he was able to g

Words by: Tony Carter Photos by: Jamie Morris/Suzuki GB There’s an understandable beam of pride that comes from Tim Davies and Nathan Colombi when either of the two men talk about the Suzuki GB/Team Classic Suzuki Katana race bike – and it could be

Dear CR I feel I must comment on the letter from Gordon Chatterton (no relation) issue 187, regarding ‘his gripe’ as he calls it, on the TT races. While I agree that any death in racing is one too many, Gordon will find if he checks the figure, which

The bike has a custom fuel tank with original Katana panel modified and remoulded.The whole of the seat area came in for quite a bit of work being shortened by 50mm and raised higher than on the stock bike. This has been made by Sweet Fabrications to

Words: Terry Stevenson Photos: Ginger Molloy album andTerry Stevenson Whenever Ginger Molloy and his mechanic Gary Williams travelled on the Continent they either slept under the stars, between the bikes inside the van, or even on top of the bikes u

Words: Bruce Cox Photographs: Don Emde Team manager Randy Hall devised a fast and efficient fuelling system along with an equally important and well-regimented procedure for operating it. The system, the procedure and the individual Kawasaki team me

Words: Raymond Ainscoe Photography: Benedicto Caldarella Benedicto was born in Buenos Aires on September 1, 1940 into a motorcycling family. His father, Salvador, was one of Argentina’s leading riders of the 1950s, astride a Saturno. His older broth

If our Kenny couldn’t pull it off in LA due to being robbed, bad luck, his own poor judgement or whatever else you want to call it, I was about to shock the world of road racing. The 1982 season had been getting increasingly better and it was about t

Words and photography: Jan Burgers The heat on track would have to be quite something to live up to the metrological goings on with temperatures at Imola soaring to over 100°. Fitness, tyres and a host of other factors could play a major part in fin

Words by: Alan Cathcart Photo credit: Stefano Gadda It was ahead of its time. In many respects, it still is. Yamaha’s RD56 factory racer which took Phil Read to the 1964 250cc World title really did use a disc-valve motor which profited from MZ tec

Words: Graham Lawlor Picture: Russell Lee, www.sport-pics.co.uk Fifty-five-year-old Fran was one of the most popular faces around the CRMC paddock and was also very well known and respected in her local North Lincolnshire community of Winterton, whe

YEAR:1982//TRACK: DONINGTON// CORNER: REDGATE//KEITH HUEWEN DOESN'T REALLY CARE WHAT, OR WHO, IS BEHIND HIM AND HIS FACTORY SUZUKI 500 AND THE CAMERA CAN'T KEEP UP WITH THE RED AND YELLOW, EITHER. For one racer it’s a moment of reflection as to where

Words by: Chris Carter Pictures by: Mortons Media Archive “I STILL LIKE THE IDEA OF THE EVENT, THE HISTORY AND DEMANDS MADE ON MAN AND MACHINE ARE VERY IMPORTANT, I JUST THINK KILLING SOMEONE FOR MAKING AN ERROR IS UNJUSTIFIABLE...” Horton’s dramat