change it when the sunny days arrive, you fair weather rider you...During break-in an engine must use a basic mineral oil free of slippery additives. Piston rings, for example, have to break through the oil film occasionally to scuff the cylinder wall

You know how it is when you hear an old song on the radio and, even though you haven't heard it for years, you can remember every word of it? Well that's how I am with the film The Great Escape.I know everything about that masterpiece

You wouldn’t believe the amount of cars and bikes I have bought straight after filming on a Saturday morning. In between shoots all I do is sit and thumb through the Autotrader, if something catches my eye then it sticks in my head. While I

is something I based the Arai ideal around. I think every man if he’s honest will say when he’s masturbating over a magazine or a porno film, his belief is that he’s in the picture or the movie. That is the philosophy that I used with the Arai brand, to try

up. Have a look at the spindle. It should have a thin film of grease on it and be corrosion free. If there are rust spots anywhere, remove with wet and dry paper, then lightly grease it - a lithium-based grease such as Castrol's LM is ideal

, particularly in the United States. The classic 1969 biker film 'Easy Rider' kickstarted a massive interest in customising bikes, mostly Harley-Davidsons which peaked in the 70s. Stretched forks, ape hanger bars, tassles, peanut tanks and wacko paint jobs were

Trainspotting star himself Ewan McGregor. The Ducati 748-owning Scot attended track days and even backed a couple of race teams in between bouts of filming. And he still intends to run a WSB team some day. Good egg. May the Force be with him.Prodigy's Keith

in films and directing my eldest son, Dan, is a really talented freestyle rapper. My youngest, Tim, is a championship tap dancer, but he’s still at university.One of my brothers is a rock star, the other looks after MetallicaDoug sings in a band called

something with a motorcycle that, in my mind, is undo-able. Well, I've seen it done, on countless slick-filmed US vids - the Crusties, Children Of A Metal God, Seth, The Hard Way - and every time, every frame and slo-mo I'm blown away by what the Metal

of times on that I'm being filmed doing my piece to camera and trying to snowboard at the same time. At least once after we'd finished taking the shot, I relaxed afterwards thinking it was over, and nearly went straight over a ravine. It would have really