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James Whitham Column - Oct 09
By James Whitham on 27/10/2009 15:05:54
James can’t help be massively impressed by the phenomenon that is Ben Spies and his ability to learn and adapt. And an errant mouse causes him to lose a big sale...
. . all the time !”Most riders at that level are super sensitive to how their bike is set up, but not him. Ben’s crew chief told him they had a choice of 24mm 25mm or 26mm yokes, but they could make any size he wanted should they not suit. He told them
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Tomatina: Ducati Multistrada S, KTM 950SM & BMW K1200R
By James Whitham on 29/12/2005 17:20:06
Take three barking bikes to the world's biggest food fight and it's a guaranteed recipe for chaos. James Whitham is your referee
, throwing, smearing, rolling on the floor and tearing at each others' clothes. And the lorries kept coming, five in all, each with 25 tons of tomatoes - that's 250,000 tins' worth!An hour later the town had become one huge Bloody Mary. At midday the cannon
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Trials & Error - Whitham rides a Montesa
By James Whitham on 21/09/2010 14:40:17
Motorcycles aren't all about going fast - sometimes they go up vertical walls instead. Whit blags a go on Dougie Lampkin's trials bike and wishes he was somewhere else
Our test area consists of a very steep wooded hillside full of huge and dangerous-looking boulders. Trouble is, to get to it you have to ride up a narrow gulley full of rock steps then along a path with an un-fenced 25-foot drop inches from your
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Whitham's Winter obsessions
By James Whitham on 11/11/2010 11:50:54
Whitham blog: 3
, or FS1E. . . . Yamaha sold over 25,000 “Fizzies” in 1973 alone, mostly coz they were available and cheap, the fact is they’re Just as crap now as they were then . . . and yet people get giddy about them. A good one these days fetches over two grand
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Split the Difference
By James Whitham , Rob Hoyles , Jon Urry on 07/09/2009 16:28:52
Despite being brilliant to ride, to many riders bikes are little more than an efficient form of transport.
you about the KX was that it’s better than I am. Did what it said on the tin. For me, the perfect weekend toy. Living with a: KX125These bikes get a hard life and service intervals are in hours not miles. The engines are designed to be re-built often
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