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Missing Link - The Story of Trick Frames
By Mark Forsyth on 22/07/2008 20:00:30
In the days when the Japanese thought a frame was just something to hang an engine from, there was a booming trick-frame market in the UK. Did we show them how it should be done?
't build a chassis to save their (or your) lives. Their all-conquering grasp on the motorcycle market, don't forget, was effectively little more than a decade old, and while they concentrated their talented engineering efforts on the engines and ultimate
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5 steps for better braking
By Mark Forsyth on 28/06/2011 16:16:07
Want to brake like a pro? Read our guide
before you start braking - the weight transference begins its cycle. The front fork springs start to compress and the rear shock begins to extend. The application of the brake lever in this stage needs to be slight but with a progressive build up
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Shale of the century: This is speedway…
By Mark Forsyth on 12/08/2010 09:15:55
It used to be as big a sport as football in the seventies then faded away to near total obscurity as property developers bought up the valuable city stadia of struggling teams. It hit the TV screens again in the noughties and staged a notable recovery
£4000 each. On top of that you’ll probably spend a quarter of that again on a sweet engine build, an up-market clutch assembly and maybe a better ignition unit. Most riders have two bikes each, some three.That might sound excessive but consider the facts
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Things that changed our lives: Helmets
By Mark Forsyth on 01/12/2010 10:27:10
The crash helmet, skid lid, bone dome, whatever you want to call it, it’s been part of any rider’s wardrobe in this country since 1973. But it wasn’t always like that. And it wasn’t always pretty.
first fibreglass helmets adopted the rigid outer shell approach. Put simply, you can either build a helmet with a deformable outer shell or inner shell. The helmet’s end purpose is to defer the energy of an impact away from the head, much in the same way
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I've tested ABS to the max...
By mark forsyth on 21/07/2011 11:00:09
...and I like it
much taught me to shut the feck up. Y' see, one day I'll be half asleep on a motorway somewhere. It'll be raining. I'll be day dreaming about building a new garage and will be planning the power-floated, heated concrete floor when, suddenly, a lorry
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