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BMW's Christian Landerl interview
By Visordown on 07/04/2010 11:21:57
BMW new model guru Dr (he’s a real doctor) Christian Landerl on building a world-beatingsuperbike, why a 600cc version is inevitable and why the Nürburgring is in his blood...
who will ride the S1000RR in the TT next year.”AN S600RR SPORTSBIKE IS ON ITS WAY!“Around 200,000 sportsbikes of between 600cc and 1000cc are sold each year. We’ve now entered the segment with the S1000RR; the idea of a 600cc model is only logical from
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The Interview - Christian Landerl
By Visordown on 20/09/2010 11:42:43
BMW new model guru Dr (he’s a real doctor) Christian Landerl on building a world-beating superbike, why a 600cc version is inevitable and why the Nürburgring is in his blood...
SPORTSBIKE IS ON ITS WAY!“Around 200,000 sportsbikes of between 600cc and 1000cc are sold each year. We’ve now entered the segment with the S1000RR; the idea of a 600cc model is only logical from us.”WORLD SUPERBIKE RACING IS ABOUT THE BIKES; MOTOGP IS NEARLY
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The professionals: Matt Wilde, Motorcycle Paramedic
By Visordown on 21/10/2010 14:11:06
Matt Wilde is a motorcycle paramedic in London. Hopefully you will never meet him, but if you do you'll be in safe hands...
SO, HAVE YOU EVER USED A MOP AND BUCKET TO CLEAN A SCENE WHEN YOU GOT THERE?Yes, and a hose in the back of the ambulance. Sometimes it's like a tsunami of blood when we get to a scene. It gets everywhere. Once I ended up stood in the shower in full
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Where Are They Now? Kevin Magee
By Gordon Ritchie on 05/01/2011 17:07:03
The brightest young Aussie prospect ever survived hideous injury to nurture the careers of others
for the first time in 1987 things changed," says Magee. "At only my second ever GP, at Assen, I qualified second."Being drafted into Kenny Roberts' Lucky Strike Yamaha squad in 1988 looked like a dream for the young Kevin, but it seemed clear to outsiders
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Valentino Rossi's interview with Italian GQ
By Ben Cope on 05/10/2010 15:56:47
A translation of Rossi's interview with the Italian lifestyle magazine
the 500cc 2-stroke but the world now unfortunately goes with the four-stroke.I believe the correct displacement is 1000cc, not 800cc with a limit of 16,000 to 17,000 rpm, not 19,000 as it is right now, so that the bikes cannot reach 220mph. In my opinion
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The Professionals: Tim Maccabee - Ducati UK Managing Director
By Visordown on 20/10/2007 12:50:07
He's the man who's in charge of Ducati's UK day-to-day operations, so what's it like dealing with the Italians?
. With hindsight, we should have launched with the improved 2005 version of the bike back in '02, but hindsight is always 20-20, isn't it! Last year was particularly disappointing, you could tell the 999 just wasn't capturing the imagination of riders. The 1098
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