Sedar tak sedar dah bulan Disember, the ending of 2013, so sebelum masuk 2014 aku nak recap balik sejarah dunia superbike. Enjoy..
It's 10 years since..
The Foggy Petronas FP1 first entered World Superbikes
-Radial brakes first appeared on road bikes
-Ducati's Desmosedici entered its first MotoGP race
-Honda launched the CBR600RR
-Neil Hodgson won the World Superbike title
It's 15 years since..
Yamaha unleashed the first YZF-R1
-Carl Fogarty and Pierfrancesco Chili clashed on the last lap at Assen
-Simon Crafar won his only 500GP at Donington on WCM Yamaha
-Honda Hornet and Yamaha Fazer transformed budget middleweights
It's 20 years since..
Kevin Schwantz won his only 500GP World Championship
-Yamaha's GTS1000 looked like the bike of the future. It wasn't
-Shinichi Itoh exceeded 200mph during the Hockenheim 500GP
-John Britten's radical home built racer debuted at TT and set the fastest top speed of the week
-Ducati launched the Monster 900
It's 25 years since..
The world was blessed with the arrival of Honda's VFR750R RC30
-The first World Superbike race took place on April 3 at Donington Park, won by Davide Tardozzi on a Bimota YB4
-BMW K100RS became the first bike with ABS
-Suzuki launched the RGV250, Kawasaki the KR-1 and Yamaha the TDR250. Oil shares skyrocketed
It's 30 years since..
Kenny Roberts retired in style by winning his final GP at Imola
-Yamaha's YPVS two-stroke power valve debuted with the RD series
-An 18 year old Alan Carter won in his first ever GP at Le Mans
-Freddie Spencer scored the first win for a radial tyre in a 500GP
It's 40 years since..
Crash helmet became compulsory on a bike
-Bimota opened its first factory in Rimini
-Kawasaki's Z! landed in Britain
-Kim Newcombe won a 500GP with the boat engined Konig
It's 50 years since..
Mitsuo Itoh took the first (and still only) TT win for a Japanese rider
-The last season every 500 Grand Prix was won by a British rider
-Mike Hailwood scored points on his debut driving in F1. The same year he won races in 3 GP classes - and took the 500GP title
It's 90 years since..
BMW launched R 32, their first bike and direct ancestor of R1200GS
-The first running of the Isle Of Man TT Sidecar race
-Stanley Woods took the first of 10 TT wins in the Junior 350cc race
-Claude Temple achieved the first 100mph racing lap of Brooklands.
Mungkin ada yang familiar dengan nama-nama yang disebut dan mungkin tak, tetapi inilah sejarah dunia permotoran yang aku nak kongsi dengan korang. Harap boleh menjadi info yang berguna di masa hadapan.
Credit: BIKE Magazine
