1993 British Superbike Champ turned TV personalityWhat's the most embarrassing motorcycle you lusted after in your youth?A Honda CG125 when I was 10. What's the worst motorcycle you've ever owned?A 490 Maico I 'ad at 14. What motorcycle would you

HOW DID YOU GET INTO PAINTING HELMETS?Completely by accident, actually! I raced Championship motocross for a few years professionally, but in 1999 I had a big accident that finished my career. It was at this time that I was introduced to Troy Bayliss, he was looking for a helmet ...

Esteemed paddock sage and no-nonsense team manager for GSE Racing's Airwaves Ducati British Superbike outfit talks investment, egos and free gumWhat were you doing last year when GSE wasn't racing?Darrell Healey was still paying Dave Parkes, Pete

Simon Crafar rose to fame in Grand Prix motorcycle racing, beating Mick Doohan in GP500s on a satellite Yamaha. He's still heavily involved in motorcycle racing and helps coach rising talent in European and World Superbike circles. He's the man

World Superbike star Simon Crafar had scores of podium finishes in the 1990s on his Kawasaki, despite never winning a race. That is until he moved to 500cc GP racing with Red Bull Yamaha in 1998, where he won the British round battling against Mick

team, looking after Keith Huewen and then Terry Rymer. Terry was really good, despite being the wrong size for bike racing! We won a couple of World Superbike races in New Zealand in '89 and '90, and we also won the British title in '90. The four years

the best.VISORDOWN: Do you still aim to get into MotoGP, or is World Superbikes, with the quality and depth of the field, now the pinnacle of bike racing?BS: I think MotoGP is still the elite class, the one everyone wants to be in. Ask anybody from WSB

John Kocinski is best remembered for out-performing Carl Fogarty on two counts: beating the British champion's Ducati in 1997 when he took Honda's RC45 to its only World SuperBike championship, and surpassing Foggy in the obnoxious stakes."He was a

. For Catalunya we got an engine update and we found something on set-up to take us from 11th in qualifying to fifth in the race. When Loris came in he said that if he’d had that engine at Mugello we could have got third or better.”The British Superbike

to think, ‘let’s build a bike.’ You have to remember in the 1970s there was nothing. Triumph was struggling and the British bike industry was dead so he thought it was a grand gesture to save the British bike industry by making a sort of Vincent equivalent