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Advanced Riding Course: Wet Weather Riding Confidence
By Niall Mackenzie on 10/04/2010 12:01:09
Niall Mackenzie turns diviner to explain the secrets of riding in the wet. Soggy satisfaction
I used be of the opinion that riding in the rain is like going to work, I can do it but I don’t particularly want to. I couldn’t grasp where the enjoyment came from getting cold and wet while constantly thinking that my bike could disappear from
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Advanced Riding Course: Throttle control
By Niall Mackenzie on 22/03/2010 13:50:28
Get on the gas with the best, Niall Mackenzie walks through a guide for throttle control
it comes to changing up and down through the gears, especially at speed.It really sunk in how big a part the throttle plays in riding while watching my two boys as toddlers learning to ride their PW50s. They quickly sussed that every time they were about
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KTM RC8R: The first month
By Niall Mackenzie on 24/05/2012 09:58:21
Life with an Austrian athlete
means you can be comfortable on long journeys (can’t wait for the ex racers tour of Scotland in August) or in a few minutes you can swap back to a circuit riding setting.I like its huge wheelie-inducing low down torque although it also has a free revving
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Donington Park and the Roman rebel.
By Niall Mackenzie on 31/03/2011 11:03:39
Max and his latest tantrums.
We know the sun always shines on the righteous and that’s exactly what happened last weekend at Donington Park. Yes its good honest people back in charge of the Derbyshire circuit so we saw summer sunshine for Friday’s free practice and also
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Simon and Leo
By Niall Mackenzie on 11/08/2011 15:51:47
Crafar still enjoying Donington Park.
If you are a track day regular this year, you may well have bumped into former racer and friendly Kiwi, Simon Crafar. I first met him in Malaysia in 1990 when he was riding for a Yamaha dealer team, sweating his way round circuits like Shah Alam
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Advanced Riding Course: Trackday riding etiquette
By Niall Mackenzie on 20/03/2010 14:24:48
The trackday paddock can be a daunting place. For track newcomers Niall advises a calm approach at your own speed – after all, it’s no race
confidence everything possible is being done to keep them safe.So if you are heading out on track there is no need to worry. You’re free to ride round at your own pace keeping plenty space between you and your fellow riders. Mirrors should be taped up
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First Ride: 2006 BMW R1200GS Adventure
By Niall Mackenzie on 20/09/2010 20:03:34
If you fancy a lap of the planet put one of these on your shopping list. R1200GS gets the Adventure treatment
-road. The engine is pleasantly free revving, which means the rev limiter is never far away when traction is at a minimum and the rear tyre is free to spin. Throttle response and fuelling are difficult to fault, although a fair bit of popping occurs while shifting
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Having a blast on the KTM Duke 125
By Niall Mackenzie on 30/09/2011 07:05:14
How to be a teenager at fifty
With young Taylor finally lifting my riding ban from his 125 Duke last week (I snapped the gear lever off in a failed garden stunt), I’ve been clocking up a few miles on what surely is the ‘must have’ learner bike of 2011.Last week I hopped aboard
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Track days, I love em!
By Niall Mackenzie on 29/07/2011 10:48:46
) although I do come across some weird and wonderful riding in the process.If it is a quick one-to-one session I’ll normally let the rider follow me for a few laps then drop behind to see if there is anything obvious going on that can be remedied. This is when
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Mackenzie's Knee down how-to
By Niall Mackenzie on 11/11/2010 11:07:22
So you wanna get your knee down? Of course you do, so Niall tells you how
sure the surface is diesel/cow shit/gravel free and give your tyres a chance to get some heat in them.Now we're ready for action. Keep the bike in a relatively high gear so your not revving the nuts off the thing and also it'll help you hold a more
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