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Don't Look Back in Anger
By Bertie Simmonds on 14/08/2001 15:53:42
Four people who have had family members killed in racing, but have dealt with their loss and carried on in the sport that they love
suit but had a team tie-pin and a pit pass in my pocket. It was as if it was dad coming in to the pits at the TT. We had to look after him and see him on his way...and then mum.They both had excellent music tastes, The Doors and Brian Ferry and new
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John McGuinness on his annoying neighbour and packing in the TT
By Visordown on 03/08/2010 16:39:29
Former King of the Mountain with 15 Isle Of Man TT wins to his name, John McGuinness, takes Visordown for a ride in a motorhome... so, some words from the ‘Morecambe Missile’
in it and pump the tyres up. There’s no better a set-up to start this year with than the one we had on the bike at the end of last year.When I was 13 I used to sneak onto the ferry on my own Just to go and pull wheelies on the prom on my BMX. I first came
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Pete's ride to Spain
By nigel100 on 19/03/2007 17:37:39
How to take the low road to a high holiday in the pyrenees
ferry from Portsmouth to Bilbao ( North Spain ) ride in a zig zag across the Pyrenees, camping in my tent and popping in to see Nigel and Maz for a coffee and to try Tracy's bunny tail knickers on ( pointless drivel, here I come again) Well the best
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Living with a Harley-Davidson FLHTCUI Ultra Classic Electra Glide
By Grant Leonard on 16/09/2007 14:56:58
Grant puts his feet up and enjoys the relaxing H-D Ultra Classic Electra Glide
.Which is precisely what I did - with my old lady riding shotgun (sorry), in the pissing rain en route to the Portsmouth ferry. I was drenched from the knees down within 5 minutes but dry 10 minutes later, such is the level of heat generated by the giant 1.6 litre
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Big Rock Spain motorcycle tour
By Mark & Tracie Shippey on 05/11/2010 15:32:42
Shippey and Tracie take a package tour to Spain with a difference. Big Rock do the hard work so you don't have to. Sit back and enjoy the ride
through glorious vistas, all the ferry home had to offer was the tackiest of cabarets and the promise of Friday night rush hour in England.Tim and Su at Big Rock Tours run a tight ship and have become renowned for the excellent tours and World Championship
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Longest Test: Yamaha YZF-R6
By Niall Mackenzie on 02/11/2009 10:37:09
Our undisputed king of the Supersport class for 2009, Niall Mackenzie explains why he wouldn’t swap the YZF-R6 for anything else...
) crawling with ants. I apologise now to any commuters that saw a scrawny Scotsman in his socks and pants shaking his leathers alongside the early morning traffic.Rob and Tim duly arrive so we fuel-up and board the ferry. Being seasoned ferry goers
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Longest Test: Harley-Davidson XR1200
By Ian Stewart on 02/01/2009 10:41:11
Large, simple and underdeveloped. But enough about our intern, Ian Stewart, Whit’s XR1200 proves that it’s as much fun as its owner
the XR as you can get. Just a screen would be nice.Rolling off the ferry into northern France, I’m disappointed with what I see. Isn’t France supposed to be a beautiful country? It bears more resemblance to a scaled-up Lincolnshire, flat field after flat
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10 minutes with... David Vanian
By Adam Harvey on 25/10/2007 19:59:21
The lead singer of The Damned, former grave digger and lifelong bike fan stops off at the Ace Cafe on his 45 Flathead for a coffee and a chat
Timers'. Bit of an adventure, the primary chain broke and I got lost, then the speedo broke and I had no idea how fast I was going; I just pushed the bike as fast as it would go. I arrived at the ferry with a cloud of black smoke surrounding me, just
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Excess all areas - June 2005 - 1000's test
By Tim Dickson on 01/06/2005 13:40:06
TWO head to France to test out the Honda CBR1000RR, Kawasaki ZX-10R, Suzuki GSX-R1000 K5 and Yamaha YZF-R1.
that we're coming through, and the ever-obliging, bike-mad French motorists part like the Red Sea as we sweep, Moses-like, through turn after turn of high speed sportsbike nirvana. Having been on the road for five hours since we got off the ferry in Le
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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...
in the harbour. They’d forgotten about the ten-foot tide, and the Manx Maid ferry coming in and out.”Seasickness aside, the British-owned cowboy-boots brand was the first to join big-time bike racing, at a time when the whole concept of outside sponsorship
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