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Bad Boy No.3: Juan Garriga
By Stuart Barker on 06/12/2010 15:38:38
When the fast pace of Grand Prix wasn't enough Juan Garriga turned to the fast pace of drug smuggling, here's the untold story
He won three 250cc Grand Prix races and finished second in the 1988 world championship, was a factory rider in the 500cc class, and has competed in WSB on a semi-factory Ducati. But when his racing career was over, Spaniard Juan Garriga found even
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Bad Boy No.4: Mick Doohan
By Stuart Barker on 06/12/2010 16:29:16
Doohan was a hardman even when the Arai came off, here is a chronicle of his brush with the law
-aggressive riding style, Doohan was also famed for his absolute disregard of pain and injuries that would have ended the careers of lesser men. “I’m not a painkiller sort of person.” Doohan said, preferring instead to grit his teeth and live with the pain.When he
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Valentino Rossi History and Facts
By Visordown on 18/07/2010 13:44:03
Information and history on the Italian multiple MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi riding for Ducati in 2011
for Rossi came in 1997 when he piloted the Aprilia RS125 to number one, in his second year in the 125 Grand Prix class. His two-stroke career developed a pattern with Valentino Rossi taking one year to learn the Grand Prix motorcycle before becoming champion
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The Aprilia Racing Specials: RS250, RSV Mille and RS3 Cube
By Visordown on 12/04/2010 09:37:23
From the dominant RS250, to the V-twin Mille and the beastly Cube. Visordown details three bikes that define Aprila's racing pedigree
1990s Aprilia was all about confidence.Having won its first race back in 1987 the race department, working under technical director Jan Witteveen, refined its 250 racer into a frontrunner looking for a champion. After an early career with the Noale
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The GSX-R Factor
By Bertie Simmonds on 26/05/2010 12:03:29
GSX-R. No other machine has had the impact on motorcycling in the last 30 years than those four letters have. But what has made the GSX-R so great?
It’s the bike that’s launched a thousand race careers. It single-handedly began the sportsbike revolution that we know and love. It gave us Schwantz, Slingshot carbs, the streetfighter sub-culture and gaudy shell-suit graphics. It gave us a million
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What makes Lorenzo so good?
By Michael Scott on 23/06/2010 11:55:53
It’s no accident that Jorge’s giving the MotoGP establishment a run for their money. He’s packing five big guns in his armoury in particular. Here they are
and develop a bike.”Control tyres With everyone on the same tyres, the strength of the bike Yamaha and Rossi developed together has become even more obvious. And unlike the Ducati, different riders at different career stages can all go fast on it. Not many
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Face Off - Mackenzie V Hislop
By Stuart Barker on 23/04/2010 09:45:54
In 1998 the fiercest battle between two team-mates took place in British Superbikes. Niall Mackenzie and Steve Hislop set the racing scene alight with their increasingly vicious clashes
returning to Britain in 1996 while Hizzy had spent the early part of his career dominating the pure road racing scene, racking up 11 Isle of Man TT victories in the process. “I didn’t know Steve very well when he joined the team and I never really knew where
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Icon: Eddie Kidd
By Visordown on 22/03/2002 15:18:53
Eddie Kidd's life story reads like a Hollywood movie script - and not a very believable one at that.
, that was about as cool as you could get.As a motorcycle ramp jumper, the highlight of his career was jumping the Great Wall of China although the whole stunt was almost called off when two of his crew exposed themselves to a Chinese waitress just before the jump
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TT Centenary: Mad King Molyneux
By Jonathan Bentman on 13/05/2007 11:54:06
In 2006 11-times TT winner Dave Molyneux flipped his outfit at over 140mph. He promptly retired. But this year he's back for win number 12
I've done it all my life. Because, quite simply, I enjoy it. And because it just didn't feel right signing off my career with a crash."What Moly hasn't mentioned was that he was more seriously injured in the crash than he let on at the time, or even
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The bad boys of motorcycling
By Visordown on 23/11/2011 10:26:45
Drug smuggling, GBH and murder; these nine are the baddest of the bad from the world of motorcycling
championship, was a factory rider in the 500cc class, and has competed in WSB on a semi-factory Ducati. But when his racing career was over, Spaniard Juan Garriga found even more excitement amidst an underground world of drugs and guns.Read more about Juan
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