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On patrol with the Met police
By John Cantlie on 07/04/2010 13:36:27
Traffic police; possibly the most feared and misunderstood creatures on the roads of Britain. Visordown went on patrol with the Metropolitan division to find out what it really means to be a traffic cop
.Fast forward a decade and many things have changed. I can’t be bothered with excessive speeding any more and the advent of the Gatso camera seems to have changed the role of the traffic officer. It’s a fact that we just don’t see as many of them on the road
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In Search of the Gotland Ring
By John Cantlie on 20/10/2010 12:41:19
Sweden. Home to Volvos and Saabs, Viggens and Vikings, preposterously expensive beer and – quite frankly – the most beautiful women on earth. ll in all, possibly the last place on earth that you’d expect anyone to build a brand new racetrack in Europe
We did a feature called ‘the Secret Circuits of Europe’. There at the top of the list was a place called the Gotland Ring. It looked fascinating. Built on the island of Gotland 50 miles east of the Swedish mainland in the frigid Baltic sea
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Reach for the sky - Whitham's Tornado ride
By John Cantlie on 10/04/2002 17:01:29
Whitham reduced to a whimpering pile of vomit and fear after one hour in the back seat of a Tornado GR4 fighter-bomber
, you don't have to have a bastard-difficult degree from a toff university to make flight crew. Whitham and myself come to a very quick conclusion that these RAF lads are, in fact, little more than intelligent nutters.There has to be a genuinely mad
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Indian Takeaway - Enduro India
By John Cantlie on 29/06/2005 12:46:44
If you need a break from the drudgery of working life, if you want to ride a bike in a place where traffic laws are non-existent and you can do pretty much whatever you want, well, you need to go to India
gets a top three ranking in the Dodgiest Driving On Earth chart. In fact it's so bad that after day one I quietly assumed that at least a dozen of us would be going home in plaster casts or body-bags. Trucks, buses, cars and three-wheeler taxis launch
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Riding Enduro Africa
By John Cantlie on 29/11/2005 16:09:55
2500 kilometres, 10days, 5blokes, 5bikes, 1 ginormous continent...and a broken foot
mudguard is folded round the seat, the exhaust is bent skyward and my fender bag is spewed over the road. At which point the CRF topples onto my boot, smashing two toes. I pick the bike up and perform a wailing, John Cleese-esque dance of self
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