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Secret Policeman's Ball
By John Cantlie on 19/12/2008 13:55:04
Every year in May, 120 policemen from all round Europe gather in Belgium for a race that no journalist has attended in 35 years. It’s thrilling and it’s fast, and this year were invited along for the ride...
in the liaison stages you’re finished. If you have a spill, it’ll cost you 20 seconds and you’ll never get that back.” The secret to doing well here is to ride as fast as you possibly can in the special stages, but keep enough in reserve for when it goes wrong
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ABS - Is ABS the future for sports bikes?
By Mark Forsyth on 19/12/2008 14:45:44
In an industry first, Honda have produced a working prototype sportsbike ABS system that they hope will contribute to safer superbikes on the roads of Europe.
accidents since the introduction of safety features. Jimmy Saville’s early clunk-click campaign coinciding with the seat belt law introduction made a stellar difference. Pre-tensioners, air bags, crumple zones, safety cells, head restraints, anti-lock brakes
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The Cigarette Papers: Grand Prix sponsorship
By Michael Scott on 08/07/2010 10:13:26
In the 1990s, cigarette sponsorship ran the world. Massive corporates, incredibly rich and powerful, went to war on the sidepanels and fairings of the fastest machines in the world. We remember a time when fag ash was king...
Strike came in one year after Rothmans, left for F1 in 1998 after the Suzuki results faded away. “They would think nothing of throwing a Schwantz championship party that cost more than a private team’s entire budget for the year,” said Suzuki team manager
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Jet and Rent: Motorcycling in Libya
By John Hogan on 21/10/2010 15:11:57
It's easy to rent a motorcycle in Libya. We did it, here's how.
Name: John HoganBike hired: 1993 Honda 450 SteedMiles covered: 580Total cost: £1,213Pros: Totally unique, no tourists, Leptis MagnaCons: Complicated visa, dodgy drivingAdventure rating: Very highWelcome to the country they said we would never reach
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The White Helmets motorcycle display team
By John Hogan on 22/10/2010 11:37:08
The White Helmets display team have been entertaining kids at military tattoos for over 90 years. But in this day of psycho freestylers aren’t they just relics, a total anachronism?
It’s April 1988. Aswad are number one in the charts, everybody wants a Peugeot 205, Davide Tardozzi has just won some race called World Superbikes and a litre of unleaded costs 37 pence. Being just eight years-old I had different priorities, like
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Living with a 2001 BMW R1150R
By Gordon Ritchie on 26/04/2002 12:35:09
World Superbike journalist, Gordon Ritches, chose a BMW R1150R to review. And very nice he thought it was too
as far as costing it out and looking at insurance quotes until the falsetto chorus of "need a four wheel drive car for the winter" from the other side of the dinner table got the better of my protective hunter/gatherer instincts - and the piggy bank
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California Superbike School Supermoto review
By Jon Urry on 05/11/2004 16:16:12
You put your left leg in, rear wheel out, in, out, in, out, slide it all about. And that's what supermoto is supposed to be all about...
to be getting the hang of it by the end of the day and it doesn't hurt too much if you crash. Trust me, I know!The school costs £199 a day with bike hire for £95. Call (01933) 224449 for more info or check out www.superbikeschool.co.uk
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In our modern world is there any place for real-road racing?
By Visordown on 23/11/2010 14:07:49
Is there any place for road racing on the modern bike-racing calendar? In our increasingly safety-first world, where does it stand?
’ve got against it is the cost. I can’t afford to participate. This situation is unlikely to change in the near future.2H4Since Health and Safety has become the new political correctness, it won’t be long before the H&S Nazis get stuck into road racing
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Motorcycle Radar: 1991
By Roland Brown on 19/11/2010 16:11:30
Journalist Roland Brown has ridden everything that’s walked or crawled in the last 30 years. Here he looks back at the bikes that defined 1991
it was cheap, at a quid under £4,000.V-MAX SNIPPEDFinally, Yamaha UK began selling the V-Max, six years after the mighty 140bhp V4’s launch in the States. It cost less than £7,000, same as the FZR1000 EXUP. Only problem was that Yamaha bottled it and cut
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Motorcycle Radar: 1989
By Roland Brown on 22/11/2010 15:28:35
Liquid-cooled multi-valve engines. Some bikes even had aluminium frames. Yes, it was 1989
as the OW-01 was built to rival Honda’s RC30. It was trick but cost more than twice as much as its big brother, the FZR1000 EXUP. At the launch at Donington the OW was super-fast and handled beautifully, but my most vivid memory is of Yamaha’s racer Nick
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