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Altitude Sickness - Tackling Pikes Peak
By John Cantlie on 29/06/2010 15:27:47
There is a race twelve miles long, with 156 flat-out bends on a mix of tarmac and dirt. on any one of those corners, running off the track means plunging over a cliff and hitting rocks. We tackle the legendary Pikes Peak hillclimb
At 14,000ft the air temperature is 28 degrees cooler than it is at sea level. As you climb the atmospheric pressure halves and the air grows painfully thin as your heart rate soars to 170bpm and your body struggles to supply enough oxygen to your
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Yanks
By John Cantlie on 26/11/2010 14:53:27
There are some 12,000 American military personnel stationed in the UK. Every year, they remember their fallen comrades by taking to the streets on their Hogs. This year, we tagged along for the ride
.We’re at RAF Mildenhall, a US Air Force base that’s home to the 100th Air Refuelling Wing and the starting point for today’s Rolling Thunder event. It’s a ride-out for US servicemen remembering their comrades who are still missing in action or prisoners of war
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Reach for the sky - Whitham's Tornado ride
By John Cantlie on 10/04/2002 17:01:29
Whitham reduced to a whimpering pile of vomit and fear after one hour in the back seat of a Tornado GR4 fighter-bomber
-propelled monstrosity, it doesn't all come naturally. The navigator warms-up the FLIR and TFR systems while Whitham and an engineer busy themselves with the six-point harness, plumbing Jim into the oxygen and communication systems. The pilot - a top lad called John
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Riding Enduro Africa
By John Cantlie on 29/11/2005 16:09:55
2500 kilometres, 10days, 5blokes, 5bikes, 1 ginormous continent...and a broken foot
for the ride, a mild, air-cooled 18bhp fun-bike. They are entirely non-road legal, with nothing more than a feeble headlight and no rear light or indicators. But, like most things in Africa, these are mere bagatelles which can be easily overlooked.As we smile
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Best Biking Summer Holiday... America
By John Cantlie on 21/10/2010 11:40:15
Best-ever biking summer holiday across America so you can get some ideas for your own. You don’t have to spend thousands of pounds or be away from work for long
AMERICAName: John CantlieBike: Honda GoldwingMiles covered: 14,955Total cost: £2,400Pros: Sense of total freedomCons: CostAt precisely 3.33am just 20 miles out of Jacksonville, I sat bolt upright, slammed on the brakes at 80mph and swerved to avoid
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Scar Tissue: Crusty Demons of Dirt
By John Cantlie on 01/12/2010 14:47:03
15 years ago when VHS ruled the world, a team of renegade dirt racers were inventing impossible new tricks that changed biking forever. They rode hard, crashed like hell and got it all down on film. They were the Crusty Demons of Dirt…
and snapped the whole front of the bike off on landing in front of 5,000 fans, and in Crusty Six he landed so hard off another jump that the handlebars smashed the bone around his right eye socket in his skull. Seth’s goggles filled with blood and he was air
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The Ramp
By John Cantlie on 22/10/2010 16:19:05
Surely there's never been a more insane idea than freestyle motocross
Motorcycling has always had its truly psychotic niches, but surely there has never been anything more insane than freestyle motocross. Jumping 40ft high the air, freestylers twist their arms and legs into impossible contortions in lunatic bids
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Pikes Peak Blog
By John Cantlie on 17/07/2009 16:27:44
Early starts and first runs
complex, hideously expensive gigs like this. Landers is joined by John Pierce, also on an Aprilia, who drove our motorhome all the way up from Nashville, Tennessee. John is so laid-back he’s horizontal, he farts like a Northerner and is permanently glued
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Jet and Rent: Mexico by motorcycle
By John Cantlie on 21/10/2010 16:33:13
Want to see Mexico by motorcycle. Well it's easy, really it is. We did it
MEXICOName: John CantlieBike hired: 2003 BMW GS650Miles covered: 2,048Total cost: £1,112Pros: Undiscovered country, amazing roads, perfect weather, beaches, food, beerCons: Huge distances involvedAdventure rating: Very highRight now I’m in Mexico
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