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The Future of Crashing
By Visordown on 28/03/2002 11:55:34
Insight in to the next generation of crash protection, the airbag system
There is a large room, tucked away in the depths of Dainese's R&D facility in Molvena, northern Italy, that receives few visitors from the outside. In silent testament to nearly 30 years of crashing, over 400 spent leather suits hang, in row upon
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Going Down - The Art of Crashing
By Warren Pole on 01/09/2010 09:41:39
Welcome to the taboo world of the crash. What they're about, why they happen and how not to have them. All you ever wanted to know about something you don't want to do
Painful, expensive, embarrassing, sometimes very sad, sometimes downright hilarious, crashing and motorbikes have gone together like MPs and mistresses since man first attached two wheels to an engine. They are the Yin to motorcycling's Yang
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One day, you'll crash
By Warren Pole on 18/03/2009 10:44:54
If you ride a bike, you’ll crash. Sooner or later it happens to everyone. We talk to four crash victims to find out how it affected their lives and those around them.
you will also fall. But that’s a good thing. A healthy fear of crashing keeps us honest. It makes us work at riding, and rewards us with the thrills and satisfaction of getting it right. Then just once in a while, a sequence of events might fall
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The Alpinestars Boot Room
By Mark Shippey on 22/10/2004 14:18:33
Mark Shippey visits Alpinestars' Italian development facility to find out just what goes into keeping your plates of meat intact in a crash
for many of the advances in safety and protection features that have evolved over the past 40 years.Kenny Roberts was the first GP rider to wear recognised road/race developed boots in the early 1970's. Reminiscent of the early protective boots
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Weird Weekend's - Rock Idol
By Luke Ponsford on 01/10/2006 10:32:58
James Toseland: Racing hero, rock star. Luke Ponsford: Not bad with a guitar. For one night only, Visordown joins Toseland and his band Crash on stage. Let's rock!
right tool...I don't have a lot in common with James Toseland. I have never been a World Superbike Champion, I don't have chiselled features or a torso seemingly hewn from aluminium. I can't recall ever having to beat libidinous females away with a stick
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Whitham remembers a wet Silverstone in 2002
By James Whitham on 14/09/2010 11:25:42
When our Whit and his Belgarda Yamaha team-mate Paolo Casoli crashed and still finished 1-2 at the 2002 World Supersport race at Silverstone
was if it was wet . . . More chance of crashing too, but if I stuck my neck out I might get lucky.When the lights changed the biggest problem was the spray from 18 bikes in front of me. To pass anyone involved going off line, and off line the puddles are deeper
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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.
BARKING UP THE WRONG TREESince the introduction of Bell’s open face helmet in 1954, little has changed in basic construction techniques over the past fifty years. Look inside any modern crash helmet and you’ll still find a polystyrene, energy
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Dr Claudio Costa - Medicine Man
By Harriet Ridley on 14/09/2010 15:50:07
Meet Dr Costa. He's a very passionate Italian who has spent the past 30 years at motorcycle races fixing up racers who crash. Here's his story
"Crashing is best avoided. But if you must then do it when Doctor Costa's around," said a young Barry Sheene of Claudio Costa, the Italian doctor who patches up bike racers.Since the early 70's Doctor Costa has breathed life back into the likes
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Hot Hot Heat: CBR600F to Sierra Nevada
By Leon Pang on 20/10/2010 11:29:10
Crashes, scraps, too many beers and the trip of a lifetime getting lost in Spain. Leon Pang’s solo ride to the Sierra Nevada on his CBR600 was earmarked for high adventure from the word go...
With the CBR fuelled up, the battery charged, the new modifications finally installed and the luggage badly secured, it was into a curtain of British rain that I made for the ferry port. No matter – it was time to get away from the drudgery of work for a while.Almost immediately ...
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John Reynolds - Retirement Plans
By Stuart Barker on 22/09/2006 16:28:36
After 20 years of racing, John Reynolds is now watching bike racing from the safe side of the fence. We ask the BSB legend about his career-ending crash, retirement, his plans for the future and what it's like not to be racing bikes for a living
with the sport again and thought there's no way I'm packing it in. On the way to Brands for the final race of the year I agreed a deal with Rizla Suzuki to race again in 2006. I was elated. Then I had my big crash."Reynolds has practically no memory of his
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