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PIKES PEAK-ING

If you’re reading this, yet you’ve never heard of Pikes Peak, get those words dialled into YouTube right now. You’ll be greeted with just under 10 minutes of stunning views, insanely fast sweeps and tight hairpins at what has to be the best road-going time attack meeting this side of the TT. It’s been running for yonks with both two and four wheels, but this year was probably the most famous of them all – Ducati unleashed their V4 Streetfighter prototype on the mountain in the hands of the late, great Carlin Dunne, while Aprilia and KTM fielded some proper weapons as well for

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