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The 59 Club: London's outlaws
By Stuart Barker on 20/12/2010 14:50:49
In the 1960s, the 59 Club was the biggest, most famous motorcycle club in the world, and a notorious hangout for outcasts and misfits. Half a century later, the incredible story of a gang of hoodlums and a pair of leather-clad vicars continues to amaze.
jeans, you didn't dare go to The Ace. Many citizens were terrified to even pass the place. In polite society, these disaffected young men had no friends. They were outcasts, despised and feared in equal measure.Like everyone else, the late Father
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What makes Lorenzo so good?
By Michael Scott on 23/06/2010 11:55:53
It’s no accident that Jorge’s giving the MotoGP establishment a run for their money. He’s packing five big guns in his armoury in particular. Here they are
He loves to slide Jorge gets faster through the course of a race. When the tyres get squirmy, Jorge gets going, frequently setting his best lap at the end: “Not too many riders have this talent. For sure, my father’s training helped me to develop
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Niall and Whit's Trial & Error
By Niall Mackenzie & James Whitham on 22/10/2010 15:36:29
Niall Mackenzie and James Whitham rediscover their racing rivalry - this time on trials bikes at the Lampkin Action Day Experience in Yorkshire
points of track craft and road racing? If you choose trials bikes instead, then father and son combo Martin and Dougie Lampkin (with even more world championships between them) will show you how much fun can be had on these low speed off-road machines
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Carry On Doctor - Valentino Rossi interview
By Gordon Ritchie & Niall Mackenzie on 21/05/2009 16:13:23
Against the odds, Rossi took Yamaha's mediocre M1 to MotoGP victory in 2004. He talks to Mackenzie about riding, winning and shoe shopping...
was there with his father Graziano, who informed me that young Vale was doing OK racing mini bikes and hoped that one day he would ride a 125cc GP bike. I shook his hand and wished him luck, never thinking for a moment that the young enthusiast might turn out to be a
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Who is Jorge Lorenzo?
By Michael Scott on 23/06/2010 10:15:13
Young, ambitious and so talented Valentino’s not sleeping well, Jorge Lorenzo is fast becoming the biggest hurdle between Rossi and another MotoGP title. Michael Scott goes in search of the real Jorge
old enough to walk, by a father whose obsession with making his son into a future world champion was, well, obsessive. It conquered the lack of spare money: José Manuel Lorenzo was a mechanic, and built the boy his first minibike when he was only three
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The Hard Road: The Real Road Racers
By Warren Pole on 16/08/2010 13:46:37
Road racing’s superstars may dominate the headlines, but the unsung majority are still the sport’s lifeblood. Warren Pole unpicks the fabric of ‘real’ road racing
successful rider ever, Robert Dunlop, have lost their lives there. Dunlop was killed after a fall in practice for the 2008 250cc race and his son Michael went on to win the same race two days later, dedicating the win to his father. Grown men cried
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The story of Akrapovic
By Bertie Simmonds on 07/01/2011 13:06:52
From a shed in Slovenia, Igor Akrapovic's exhausts now dominate the world
Akrapovic.Igor was working in his father's factory making injection-moulded plastic goods, while in his spare time he was making engines and tuning stuff for his friends, as well as indulging in a spot of racing.This was the late 1980s. And while doing all
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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
told me.Today, Doctor Costa is revered by professional motorcycle racers the world over. So how did it all start? I asked the Doctor himself as we sat in the cosy Clinica Mobile motorhome at the 2003 Donington MotoGP."On 23 April 1972 my father
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Icon: David Essex
By Stuart Barker on 18/05/2009 13:05:41
He may have had 23 top 30 hits, but David will remain a one-race wonder
bike, a Lambretta TV175, when he was 16 and hasn't looked back since. Essex has a penchant for British bikes now though and currently owns a 1976 Triumph Bonneville.Born in London in 1947 to an Irish gypsy mother and East end docker father, Essex got
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Creche Course - They start 'em young these days
By Mark Forsyth on 17/06/2008 14:51:06
MF goes racing with the fastest 8-year olds in the country as we go looking for the next generation of MotoGP talent
considered the route to MotoGP too rocky to be considered as a viable career path. Or rather, their fathers had. Nobody has ever doubted that Britain wasn't capable of producing fresh talent, it's just that up until now precious little of that young talent
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