Our top 10 articles of 2013

It’s been an interesting year for Rescogs, with some ups, some downs, and some great contributions from new contributors including Feef and Gareth. We’ve managed to reach tens of thousands of people over the course of the year, and interestingly three quarters of you have come back more than once, so we must be doing something right…

And we’ve got plans for next year, including more contributions from a wider range of people, and kicking everything up a gear. But in the meantime, why not check out the 10 most popular articles we published in 2013, and make sure you haven’t missed any of our best work this year:

• 10. Barry Sheene’s 1984 Suzuki XR45
• 9.  The Suzuki RG500 – an endangered species?
• 8. Mallory Park – the unfriendly circuit?
• 7. 50 Shades of Grey Bikes: The Suzuki RGV250SP VJ23
• 6. Classic replicas – Tributes or Fakes?
• 5.  Pendine Sands Speed Trials
• 4.  “Real” Light Sprinter (Suzuki XR94)
• 3.  The Suzuki RG500 owned by Kevin Schwantz
• 2.  The most bang for your buck?
• 1. Harris YZR500 Grand Prix bike- ex Kevin Mitchell

Weirdly we seem to have had a bit of a Suzuki bias – considering the XR45, RGV250 and RG500 dominance in the top 10 most popular stories of the year. Luckily the Harris YZR500 at the top of the list addresses the balance a bit, and we did have a couple of interesting event and circuit stories almost make it to the top, along with the very interesting numbers analysis from Feef on which new bike gives you the most power for the smallest outlay.

There’s loads more on the site, whether it’s race reports, guides to winter biking and more, but we’ll leave 2013 for the time being with our favourite video of the year – starring our own Sam Matthewman combining talent and a close brush with disaster at the Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb earlier in the year.

If you want to contribute or help out in 2014, we’d love to hear from you. And it doesn’t have to involve running off a hillclimb track after the finish line – photos, videos, writing, event listings, ideas, we’re interested in the lot.