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Icon: Barry from Auf Widersehen Pet
By Stuart Barker on 17/09/2010 16:57:21
Cool For Being Uncool - He was unlucky, fat and ugly with a thick Brum accent - an unlikely hero
as many frauleins as they could cajole back to their manky on-site hut.The show kick-started Jimmy Nail's career, and at the same time launched Timothy Spall as Brummie, bike-riding Barry who, despite looking more like a real life sparkie than most real
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Brighton Rock - Desmo at the Speed Trials
By Colin Goodwin on 21/04/2010 10:35:37
Once a year in September the seafront at Brighton rocks to the sound of highly-tuned car and bike engines blasting up the prom. This year, we joined them on the most expensive production bike in the world
seen or heard a Desmosedici in the metal and they are very enthusiastic. If a bike could sign autographs it would have worn out three biros by now.I’ve been in this position before because in 1996 I took part in the Brighton Speed Trials driving a Honda
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Get out and ride! £1000 motorcycles
By Ben Cope on 02/05/2012 18:08:44
Don't find excuses not to ride. Find an excuse to ride with these cheap reliable bikes
You love riding, but you don't want to ruin your pride and joy. So I've put together five bikes for under £1000 that cost peanuts to run, both in terms of fuel, maintenance and insurance. So here's your excuse to squeeze another bike in the garage
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Ducati Club Races Assen: The Wacky
By Ben Cope on 19/05/2011 12:53:02
Some of the bikes from the pit and paddock at the Ducati Club Races. Warning: some of these are not easy on the eye
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Biaggi's Aprilia RS250 - Gallery and Video
By Visordown News on 22/04/2009 18:51:26
Max Biaggi's gorgeous, legendary championship-winning GP bike and a video of him working Aprilia's magic
Aprilia RSV4, the June issue of Two Wheels Only, on sale now, has the the full stories behind Aprilia's greatest race bikes. From the fierce, disc-valved RS that helped Max Biaggi win three back-to-back 250 world championships to Shane Byrne's RS3 Moto
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Shakey's Aprilia RS3 Cube - Gallery and Video
By Visordown News on 27/04/2009 15:21:18
Shane Byrne's rip-snorting, untamable MotoGP bike and videos of the snarling animal in action
the the full stories behind Aprilia's greatest race bikes. From the fierce, disc-valved RS that helped Max Biaggi win three back-to-back 250 world championships to Shane Byrne's RS3 MotoGP menace, a bike that by his own admission "was an all-out, fire
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Over the Hill - Red Marley Hill Climb
By John Hogan on 02/12/2010 16:22:49
They might be old but the bikes and riders at the Red Marley freak hill climb are still in their prime
Phil, Robby, Vincent and Will trickle their bikes up to the start gate. Over the clattering of valves and popping pistons I can hear Will giving Vincent a mouthful of smack talk, laughing at him for having a rubbish bike and letting him know
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Niall and Whit's Trial & Error
By Niall Mackenzie & James Whitham on 22/10/2010 15:36:29
Niall Mackenzie and James Whitham rediscover their racing rivalry - this time on trials bikes at the Lampkin Action Day Experience in Yorkshire
Niall Mackenzie and James Whitham rediscover their racing rivalry - this time on trials bikes at the Lampkin Action Day Experience in YorkshireCould you ever imagine Kenny Roberts senior and junior spending a day at Donington teaching you the finer
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Riding off-road to help you on-road
By Tom Higham on 22/03/2013 15:03:00
Own an MX bike? Green lane regular? If so, please move on. There's nothing to see here...
IT'S no secret that many top riders ride motocross bikes in the off-season as part of their training regime. Not only does it help keep these athletes fit, it keeps them bike fit too. But how does riding on dirt and through mud improve general road
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To The Crusher - Bimota V-Due
By on 03/04/2008 15:22:52
On paper it looked fantastic and had grown men rubbing their loins against glossy pictures in bike mags.
On paper it looked fantastic and had grown men rubbing their loins against glossy pictures in bike mags: a fuel-injected 500cc, two-stroke making 110bhp and weighing in at 145 kilos (319lbs). Added to the Grand prix spec sheet were snaky twin
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