Winglets in MotoGP are now an integral part of modern bike design. Today, hardly any manufacturer has built bikes without these front-mounted wings - an innovation that started as a daring experiment.

The complaint that “all modern bikes look the same” has been levelled by die hard retrogrouches presumably back to the time the boneshaker replaced the venerable penny farthing. I’m not going to be so ...

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