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Icon: Barry from Auf Widersehen Pet
By Stuart Barker on 17/09/2010 16:57:21
Cool For Being Uncool - He was unlucky, fat and ugly with a thick Brum accent - an unlikely hero
as many frauleins as they could cajole back to their manky on-site hut.The show kick-started Jimmy Nail's career, and at the same time launched Timothy Spall as Brummie, bike-riding Barry who, despite looking more like a real life sparkie than most real
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First Ride: Honda CB1300
By Grant Leonard on 13/09/2010 14:36:47
Remember the Big One, the Honda CB1000? Well this is the Even Bigger One, a bike that, like its rider(!), combines massive muscle with definitive retro appeal
launch - the Honda Dominator just er, fifteen years before (I'm not old, I have a Tardis). We rode up to the top of Mount Etna on that occasion - not advisable today as only three months ago, the bugger erupted like Bertie after a balti. This time we
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A short guide to motorcycle insurance costs
By Visordown on 13/10/2011 14:51:32
It's a good idea to use specialist motorcycle insurers
Owning a motorcycle is certainly an exciting decision - getting out on the open road, enjoying the fresh air, and avoiding the hassle and often undue expense of owning a car. But at the same time there is always an element of risk involved in owning
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Buy a WSS ride for £300,000
By Visordown News on 30/09/2011 10:36:48
PTR's Simon Buckmaster offers World Supersport ride to 'aspiring champions', if they can afford it
the confidence and ability to win races and want to make a professional career in racing."The rider will have to bring money for the seat though, that is the reality of motorcycle racing in these very difficult financial times. However, the return for any
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Unfinished business - Laverda SFC
By Visordown on 27/08/2010 15:01:07
Conceived in boom-time and canned when Laverda owners Aprilia felt the pinch from falling scooter sales, the SFC (Super Freni Competizione – as in super brakes competition) was an interpretation of Laverda’s iconic early seventies endurance racer
-olds to ride 50cc bikes with no licence or lessons. Scooter sales – Aprilia’s mainstay – fell off a cliff, so by the time the Laverda SFC was actually shown in 2003, its masters at Aprilia were desperately seeking financial help to keep the company afloat
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Niall Mackenzie Column - Feb 2007
By Niall Mackenzie on 01/02/2007 10:27:32
A South African experience has seen Niall Mackenzie return a changed man. It could have been "I'm an ex-GP racer, get me out of here!" But no, Spuds concedes, Ducati are the boys
wrapped in tubular steel, or maybe it was because I never had much success on the few occasions I raced them. Okay, it was probably the latter...Whatever the reason, Ducati have proved me wrong time and time again so I'd like to publicly admit defeat
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Niall Mackenzie Column - Feb 09
By Niall Mackenzie on 15/02/2009 17:11:49
Ex-Grand Prix legend turned super-fast roadtester Niall Mackenzielooks at the costs of producing the next Lewis Hamilton or Casey Stoner
to entertain him now the cold winter nights are drawing in. He also seems a very honest, likable chap who would never deliberately set out to upset another human being. Well, off track anyway...At this moment in time everybody loves him, but over the next few
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Facilitating Freedom
By ddgurman on 08/01/2007 08:33:09
D word, Disability. It's one bikers don't like dwelling on
, and highlighting the charity's work. Unfortunately by the time it appeared in print, I'd developed a more personal insight into disabilities, after a freak walking-speed tumble on an Aprilia Caponord resulted in a dislocated knee, shattered tibia, and over three
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Mike Scott column - Dec 2005
By Mike Scott on 01/12/2005 12:17:14
World famous MotoGP writer, Mike Scott
All out war ... Capirossi leads Hayden and RossiDucati and Bridgestone couldn't have timed their Great Revival any better. Three poles and two wins for Loris Capirossi came just as the championship changed from foregone conclusion to fait accompli
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Donington Park - worth £75m as housing development
By mark forsyth on 03/09/2010 16:27:01
Kevin Wheatcroft tells it like it is...
now and we’re here we need to stay.’But what about Adroit, the company responsible for getting the venue up and ready to hold events?‘We’ve been in discussion with Adroit for some time, in actual fact they’re here this weekend. They have a wish to run
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