1993 British Superbike Champ turned TV personalityWhat's the most embarrassing motorcycle you lusted after in your youth?A Honda CG125 when I was 10. What's the worst motorcycle you've ever owned?A 490 Maico I 'ad at 14. What motorcycle would you

. No warning or anything, I went to work on a Tuesday and by the end of the day I was jobless, stuck 1,650 kilometers from anyone that knew me. That was quite hard.One of the guys that used to come in the shop told me that some Czech and Polish bikers hung

. No warning or anything, I went to work on a Tuesday and by the end of the day I was jobless, stuck 1,650 kilometers from anyone that knew me. That was quite hard.One of the guys that used to come in the shop told me that some Czech and Polish bikers hung

on a 320bhp Pro Stock drag bike.13. Ever spent a night in jail?Nope.14. What's on the horizon in your field of work?Hopefully more of the same, with bells and whistles on.15. What are you reading at the moment?Total Control by Lee Parks16. What's your

but he’s keeping his mouth shut and doing it, which is impressive – too often it’s the other way round. He’s got plenty of time to turn into a fuckwit and it’s easy to do – when you’re young and you’ve got 120,000 crazed fans hollering your name it

were looking good for the shootout for us. My team lost a load of sponsorship money because of it all. Put it this way, I wouldn’t have tried that move.The golden period for British Superbike in terms of earning was late nineties to about 2005 or 2006

sponsorship proposal I got the job doing the livery. AND WHAT WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THAT JOB?Yamaha let me loose in the wind tunnel developing a fairing for the XS1100. It was intended as an R&D exercise but ended up reached the market as the Martini Yamaha

away, which is hilarious! You click it into 2nd gear – it only has two gears – and it pulls 60-150mph way harder than from 0-60mph. It does have a tendency to melt car sideskirts in traffic from the jetwash, which can be a little irksome. And expensive

. Not spirit-wise, size-wise. When I started we made about 16,000 bikes, then in 1999 we had a big investment, this year we will produce 100,258 bikes. It has been hard. In Austria the unemployment rate is just 2.5%, everyone who wants to work has work, and we

arriving within 12 hours, who’d raised £250,000 for charity and we’d already spent their money on organising the tour. As my customers were above Iran on a plane, I was on an overnight train to meet the one politician who could over-rule this corrupt copper