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Interview: Norton CEO, Stuart Garner
By mark forsyth on 23/04/2012 16:08:12
Norton back at the Isle of Man TT
and the pedigree. It's very much the correct engine to come and do the TT with. The money that we would have spent on (our own) V-4 engine we can now deploy in the road bike business. It's all about cutting a piece of cloth accordingly. Racing is important
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20 Questions: James Cracknell
By Mark Shippey on 17/03/2008 15:31:25
Olympic gold medallist rower and very tall bloke
?People who ride white motorbikes with reflective clothing 'cos I think they're all policemen.9. Who's your motorcycling hero?Mick Doohan or Rossi for the awesome way they ride.10. What motorcycle did you first do 100mph on?Back of a ZX-10.11. What is the most
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10 minutes with... Claudio Pellizzon
By Harriet Ridley on 22/10/2007 16:25:39
With 37 years of service at Aprilia under his belt, Claudio Pellizzon has seen the company grow from a small-volume, dirt bike and scooter firm to a big player in sportsbikes. He tells TWO of the highs and lows of bike testing
years ago I had to ride a 125 all the way to Austria for engine developments with Rotax. In those days motorcycle clothing wasn't as protective as it is now and 125cc bikes were seriously slow! The weather was good when I left the Aprilia factory near
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10 minutes with... Scooterman
By Harriet Ridley on 23/10/2007 09:35:48
Meet 25-year-old Jevon Hynds. You get drunk, he turns up on a Monkey Bike, sticks it in the boot of your car and drives you home. Genius
-vous with Scooterman in case they're too drunk to remember. Then Scooterman meets the client who leads him to the car. The scooter's seat, tank and forks come off, we wrap the four main parts in synthetic bags and load them in the boot. You throw your bike clothing
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The Professionals - Bradley Smith
By Visordown on 07/10/2010 16:53:12
Like a racing version of Mick Hucknall, 17 year-old Bradley Smith talks about learning to drive and meeting girls...
bought recently was a heart-rate monitor. It was top of the range and was over £250. If I’m buying something it’s not clothes, it’s training gear to make myself better.You’re finally old enough to drive now, so what will you first car be? A porsche?I did
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The Professionals - Richard Stevens
By Visordown on 02/09/2007 14:41:50
Richard Stevens is the artist behind the mad paint designs seen on nearly every helmet in the British Superbike Championship
REFUSED?A guy asked me to paint a portrait of his wife on his helmet, but then went on to tell me she'd died a few years earlier. I turned that one down, I didn't even find out if he wanted her painted with clothes on or off! I did once paint a jar
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The Professionals - Livia Lancelot
By Visordown on 19/10/2010 11:53:59
Livia Lancelot is Kawasaki France’s impossibly cool ladies’ motocross World Champion. She’s Europe’s only professional female MX racer...
. Motocross is very much about style, so is image important to you?To me, yes. I’m a girl, and I like to wear nice clothes, to wear good make-up and like to look okay at the racetracks. But you know some of the girls I race against look like men! I don’t know
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The Professionals - Gordon Murray
By John Cantlie on 16/01/2009 15:12:50
Gordon Murray, son of a motorcycle racer and the designer of the legendary McLaren F1, on the Ducati 916, the Isle of Man and hanging bikes on his walls at home...
’t own a suit. I own enough Hawaiian shirts to clothe the population of Hawaii..
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James May on bikes, Top Gear and curry
By Visordown on 29/07/2010 09:18:34
He’s the one off Top Gear on the telly who’s neither a reactionary middle-England mouthpiece or a clinical study in expensive orthodontic treatments. He is James May
clothing.My dream ride wouldn’t involve carrying a passengerI don’t like the responsibility of taking pillions. I’d have a Honda C90 and I’d ride it back to Japan, to its birthplace. If I had to share the trip with someone else I’d quite like to go with my
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