Best Race Bikes

This is the innovative Benelli Tornado TRE , its results in WSB may not suggest immediatly that this is one of the worlds greatest race bikes but for such a small factory with a tiny budget it did very well indeed, first 3 cylinder in WSB, with the backing it needed it would have won, the rider pictured is Peter Goddard , probably the worlds best development rider.

Chris Walker on the Kawasaki ZX-7RR , any bike that can race unchanged for 6 years and still race competitivley in top level motorsport is something pretty special and with the incredibly talented Chris Walker on board it showed its potential as its done for years.

This bike and rider combo needs no introduction, Carl Fogarty and the Ducat. Four world titles and 54 race wins say it all, the 996 also helped Troy Corser and Troy Bayliss win their world titles totally superb and a biking icon.

This is the bike that the legendary Kenny Roberts won the 500gp title on. He says it was a total bag of shit to ride but he still won! Mad bike and some of the best paintwork on a racebike ever.

Max Biaggi's world 250gp title winning bike from 1996, Max won a succession of world titles on these little 250 Aprilias during the 1990s before moving up to the 500cc class, remember though, yes its called an RS250 but the shape is the only thing the same as your road bikes, 100bhp and 170mph = Crazy little 250

Probably THE best race bike ever, Hondas NSR500. This is the one that took Valentino Rossi to the 500gp title in 2001, but before the arrival of young Valentino, Mick Doohan was busy winning his world titles on the NSR (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998) and Alex Criville won in 1999 on another NSR - Incredible machine

Since the mid 1980's the Suzuki GSX-R750 has been tearing up racetracks around the world and winning it all from WSB races to the Bol-Dor 24 hour race at Mangy-Cours in France, its done it all. Here seen is Pier Franchesco Chili riding the GSXR. One of the few riders who can say they've won both a WSB race and a 500gp race.