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The Chosen Ones - Yamaha YZF-R1
By Warren Pole on 11/10/2007 17:36:22
In homage to Valentino Rossi's Yamaha-mounted world championship win, TWO takes all four generations of R1 to Spain for a right good thrashing and a weekend at the races.
most of our adult lives. Cabin fever has set in. In the back lies our precious cargo - four gleaming R1s - while ahead lies the perfect long weekend and our last, fast riding fix of the year before we batten down the hatches for winter.Here's the plan
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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…
they go through the same thing! They’re going through what I went through just to look better, to have their whole faces pulled back. They sliced me open right across the front of my skull so they could mend the break to my eye socket and put a titanium
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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
Christ my body hurts. My left foot is broken in two places, swollen horribly and coloured black and green from bruising. My left thumb has been wrenched so far back that it's barely mobile, and I have a bloody wound on my throat the size of a walnut
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The White Helmets motorcycle display team
By John Hogan on 22/10/2010 11:37:08
The White Helmets display team have been entertaining kids at military tattoos for over 90 years. But in this day of psycho freestylers aren’t they just relics, a total anachronism?
Streethawk, doing skids on my BMX and seeing how fast my new trainers made me run. A typical family day out back then was the Rhine Army Summer Show, a Military Tattoo for forces families living in Germany. Every year we would traipse round the stands
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KTM Supermoto Versus 250cc SuperKart
By John Hogan on 17/11/2010 12:30:17
Two wheels versus four wheels challenge. only with a difference. In the orange corner a rampant KTM Supermoto. And in the red corner is a vicious little 250cc superkart. the location was Lydd, the weather terrible, who would win in a five lap race
. After three warm up laps Ady very nearly put his bike back on the truck, “I am not risking my own personal safety for a race against a go-kart,” he hissed. “There is absolutely no grip out there whatsoever.” I pretended I couldn’t hear him, told him he
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Riding the Weston Beach Race
By John Hogan on 06/01/2007 10:51:36
The Weston Beach Race is gnarly. Always cold and wet, it's three miles of knee-deep sand and 1000 dirt bike loons. For three hours. Hogan the Innocent thought he stood a chance...
, with the top men apparently allowed to go whenever they felt like it. I sat on the Yamaha's tail light, just like I'd seen people do in photos, and pinned it. Look! I'm a beach racer!The first corner was still busy when I got there so I hung back and watched
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The 59 Club: London's outlaws
By Stuart Barker on 20/12/2010 14:50:49
In the 1960s, the 59 Club was the biggest, most famous motorcycle club in the world, and a notorious hangout for outcasts and misfits. Half a century later, the incredible story of a gang of hoodlums and a pair of leather-clad vicars continues to amaze.
was to put a rock'n' roll record on the jukebox and race each other round the block, trying to get back before the song had finished.If you didn't ride a bike and didn't adhere to the ritual dress code of leather jacket, duck's arse haircut and battered
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The End of Trackdays?
By Mike Peake on 18/03/2009 10:49:24
Soaring costs, endless red-tape and now a new peril – an American-style suing culture – are taking their toll on the British motorcyclist’s greatest escape…
with his friends. The staff agreed. It was their mistake. And then, when he fell off, 15 laps later, he threatened to sue the organisers for £250,000.The rider’s bluff was called and he backed down immediately. He was just talking tough. But it is a sad
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Barry Sheene's penultimate race
By Don Morley on 28/02/2009 16:12:04
Photographer Don Morley shot motorcycles for over 50 years. Every month, we dip into Don’s archive as he talks in his own words about the pictures that made history
that accident he may have won the Championship. But after that season he had to eat humble pie and go back to Suzuki in ‘83, who he’d sworn never to ride for again. You see Barry had always been the number one rider for Suzuki and he’d always screwed his team
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The calculating German
By Don Morley on 26/05/2010 15:57:43
German 250cc GP sensation Toni Mang upset the Honda applecart with a masterful display of riding
disaster. But, somewhere along the line we must have struck up a level of respect. He decided to go back to 250cc, I think for Yamaha, and won the world title.Then he went to Honda, the same year that Freddie did the double, but he was conned. Honda signed
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