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What it's like to fall off at 170mph...
By mark forsyth on 22/06/2010 15:09:06
Earth, sky, earth, sky...
Here at Visordown Towers, we've been leafing through loads of issues of the magazine for a couple of days. The reason? Visordown.com is ten years old and our next issue will celebrate this monumentous occassion. I stumbled accross this piece I wrote a while back and thought I'd s...
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It's a funny old world
By mark forsyth on 22/02/2011 10:26:54
Just rewards for baddies
drain, with his penis almost crushed and detached from his body. His pants had been ripped from his body in the accident.His accomplice, who was riding pillion, suffered body injuries.The incident happened soon after the 28-year-old victim was locking
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MotoGP grids. What the hell went wrong?
By mark forsyth on 28/09/2010 10:28:26
Seems an RG500 is a bit cheaper to run than an GSV-R
Stumbled across this vid by accident - we were actually watching a Spanish man goading a really angry, spitting Ibex in a pen and I can't remember the connection with Assen.I digress.Three things struck us when we watched this video in the office
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Tootin' spliffs on the move?
By mark forsyth on 21/07/2011 14:34:32
Hell, yeah
-the-wind at speeds approaching 60mph.But if this smoking requisite appears to be too big and cumbersome, fear not. The same company's 'pocket rocket' allows the same level of traveling convenience without 'mess or fuss'.No wonder accident rates have improved
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Peel three-wheeler
By mark forsyth on 21/09/2011 15:17:31
Not normal
it makes to take a steep road to the left, all the time looking like it might all end in a horrific fire-ballin’ accident.You’ve just got to love the Isle of Man, haven’t you?
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Neck Braces - the future of road riding?
By Mark Forsyth on 16/02/2009 10:30:48
Go to any off-road event and 80% of the riders these days will be wearing neck braces. These items are possible life-savers, so why haven’t they been adopted by the road-riding fraternity?
in design and yet anatomically brilliant, these carbon-fibre collars prevent the lower edges of your helmet from moving beyond certain limits, ultimately stopping you breaking your neck should you have the wrong kind of accident. That’s the theory, anyway
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Goodbye Arai, hello X-Lite
By mark forsyth on 25/02/2011 10:29:00
MF's breaking 25 years of helmet habit
to match my leathers and bike. It wasn't exactly a full factory affair but it was pretty posh for club racing.My first really big Arai accident was at Donington where I managed to flip myself like a cheese omelette into the back of waiting St Johns
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D'you cover your front brake with a finger?
By mark forsyth on 15/09/2011 15:41:15
Well, you're very naughty
Bumped into a riding instructor last weekend. Not literally, though, I'm pleased to add. The road had been closed by a big accident and we'd all been forced into the same coffee/petrol stop together.He had one pupil with him on a 125 Yamaha custom
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ABS - Is ABS the future for sports bikes?
By Mark Forsyth on 19/12/2008 14:45:44
In an industry first, Honda have produced a working prototype sportsbike ABS system that they hope will contribute to safer superbikes on the roads of Europe.
accidents since the introduction of safety features. Jimmy Saville’s early clunk-click campaign coinciding with the seat belt law introduction made a stellar difference. Pre-tensioners, air bags, crumple zones, safety cells, head restraints, anti-lock brakes
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Back from the Ulster GP
By mark forsyth on 15/08/2010 23:36:42
News filters through...
owners experiencing something similar?Got to put a couple of things straight since my last blog.According to the BBC NI radio news this morning, the husband and wife spectators injured in the Superstock accident yesterday were watching the racing from
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