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True Grit - Bikers with disability
By Bertie Simmonds on 31/03/2010 12:38:11
Getting hurt, badly hurt, on your bike isn’t something any of us like to talk about. But it happens. And not always to the other guy.
to four incredibly brave souls who wouldn’t let their love of riding be stopped by anything - not even the loss of a limb...Chris Jones is 41. One morning in June 1995 he was stationary at the end of a mile-long straight on his Honda CBR600. He had his
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2008 Michelin tyre launch review
By Johnny Cantlie on 01/07/2008 14:17:29
The filter-down from MotoGP racing slicks to everyday road tyres has never been more apparent than with the latest rubbery offerings from Michelin
. The tyre is designed to last a full day of stop-start track work (and warm up within a half-lap) but after that it’s toast. On the road you could cook a rear within 800 miles of hard riding, easy.From there the obvious progression is to the new 19
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Visordown's motorcycle insurance guide
By Visordown on 24/01/2012 15:18:38
Insurance is a right hassle right up to the point the man with the skillsaw has your bike away - then it's a God send. Here's our guide
varies a lot depending on your circumstances. Your driving and claims record, age, where you live, what you do, and what you ride are all taken into account.Policy typesIt is a legal requirement, if you want to ride on any public road, to have a valid
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Katja Poensgen
By Visordown on 26/10/2001 16:47:36
For a girl to make it into professional bike racing is rare enough. For a girl to make it all the way into Grands Prix is even rarer
Kid, the next I wanted to be an actress, so no-one took me very seriously when I said I wanted to race bikes. But I persisted, and he gave in.Were you an instant success?Oh God, no. My first year I was really slow and learning how to ride the bike
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The Power of Balance
By Ben Miller on 01/12/2010 12:27:54
MotoGP racers talk about it, road bike engineers strive for it and, if your bike’s got it, riding really, really quickly is easy. But what the hell is balance?
balanced rapier of a machine, one that asked questions of the general public's riding ability and, in many cases, found it wanting. For a modern equivalent imagine one of the Japanese big four coming out with a carbon-framed 1000 that made a class
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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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Five unlimited budget trackday bikes
By Jon Urry on 08/06/2012 13:03:00
From a road homologated WSB Ducati to ex-500GP machinery. If you're into trackdays and money is no object, then why not invest in the best bikes, born with racing in mind
V-twinPower: 180bhpWeight: 165kg2012 PTR WSS-spec CBR600RR - £38,400Performance Technical Racing (PTR) are a British based team that have taken the Supersport fight to the might of Ten Kate and the various Japanese factory teams and won.You can’t pop
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Rush Hour
By Simon Bowen on 12/10/2007 16:10:24
Woke up. Fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head. Found my way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up, I noticed I was late...
is that if you approach your ride to work properly, it can be an exhilarating and stimulating start to the day, bringing you in to work on a mental high. To achieve this, though, you need the right tool for the job and, as the next few pages show, there is a tool
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Carl 'Foggy' Fogarty columns from TWO magazine
By Carl Fogarty on 27/10/2002 11:48:28
Carl Fogarty has done more than enough to deserve this space to talk about anything that takes his fancy: racing, superbikes, Grand Prix, family, friends, fun and hanging out with pop stars in London nightclubs...
slight gap and then Neil, Corser and them.If the bike is perfect, Corser is perfect. If it's not, he's not. When we he rode with me in 1999 he could ride as fast as me but when the thing starts falling apart around you, which is ninety per cent
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James Whitham Scrapbook: Part One
By James Whitham on 06/06/2011 11:44:27
A life in comedy photographs
a bend somewhere on the Bungalow section of the mountain and went careering off down the moor... sustaining concussion and a broken collar bone. It’d been an eventful week, I’d already been warned for dangerous riding by the organizers and attacked
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