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10 minutes with... Frankie Chili
By Jon Urry on 25/10/2007 20:49:15
Now in his tenth year of World Superbike racing, Bologna's blue-eyed boy is still showing the young guns the way. Control yourselves ladies, here's Frankie
win.You have a reputation as the ladies' man of WSB. Why do you think the housewives like you so much?Honestly, I don't know. I just try to do my job. I like to stay with my family, with my wife, so I don't know why another girl would like me. But it
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Home James: Middleweight Nakeds Test
By Jon Urry on 01/07/2005 13:58:51
Whitham takes us by the hand and leads us through the streets of Huddersfield. Four battered middleweights, a bag of chips and a Fanta, please
"When I were training as an engineer, just after I left school, I had these safety boots, the kind with the metal protective bit on outside. All the girls used to hang outside the chippy, so I'd come steaming down this hill on me Fizzie, flat out
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First Ride: 2003 Suzuki SV650S
By Jon Urry on 13/09/2010 15:16:46
The new SV650S has a hell of a reputation to live up to as it steps into the shoes of its vastly popular predecessor
going at all, and surely someone, somewhere at Suzuki is lying in a hot tub surrounded by Geisha girls at this very moment thanks to the enormous profits the humble SV must have generated by now.Having reached this jolly successful stage, Suzuki could
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Simon Daukes buys a naked motorcycle
By Jon Urry on 01/01/2007 17:20:21
Here at Visordown HQ we have no idea who Simon Daukes is. But we're guessing he's some sort of marketing cheese from the Haymarket days. Here he is, buying a motorcycle. Allegedly
too. Not sure what this says about me though...KTM SUPER DUKERiding KTM's Super Duke is like sleeping with a girl who already has a boyfriend. You know it could end in a world of pain and suffering, but the thrill of getting away with it keeps you
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First Ride: 2004 MZ 1000S
By Jon Urry on 30/03/2008 21:29:42
From the Eastern Block to the East End, MZ has come a long way. But can the firm's new MZ1000S sports tourer really take on the likes of VFR, Sprint and ST3?
reminded them of a bad '80s take on what a future bike may look like. But looks are subjective anyway, as I keep trying to tell the girls I meet in nightclubs.Sitting on the bike and, despite the large chunky controls looking like they are designed
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First Ride: 2007 Honda CBF600S
By Jon Urry on 10/04/2008 22:19:58
An easy learner friendly machine, or a bike with about as much soul as a sandbag? Honda’s middleweight goes for function over style...
don’t understand why manufacturers feel girls can’t ride big bikes. Unfortunately in making it appeal to this demographic Honda has sucked all the life out of the CBF. A bit like those Dementors keep trying to do to poor Harry Potter.Fire up the engine
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First Ride: 2008 Honda CBF600S
By Jon Urry on 17/02/2008 15:27:28
An easy learner friendly machine, or a bike with about as much soul as a sandbag? Honda’s middleweight goes for function over style...
don’t understand why manufacturers feel girls can’t ride big bikes. Unfortunately in making it appeal to this demographic Honda has sucked all the life out of the CBF. A bit like those Dementors keep trying to do to poor Harry Potter.Fire up the engine
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Living with a 2004 Honda Fireblade CBR1000RR
By Jon Urry on 15/08/2004 09:21:25
Urry spends some quality time with a Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade
August 2004Urry takes the Blade for a romantic weekend in Le Mans before a rough thrashing at Oulton ParkRunning a bike in. What's it all about then? Well if you read the feature somewhere about the process it will, I'm sure, explain all the various
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Living with a 2007 Triumph Tiger 1050
By Jon Urry on 16/05/2007 13:45:58
Urry swaps the speed of sports bike for the sedate Tiger 1050 to experience the sense of adventure
the organisers banned them from selling it in litre bottles. Apparently it wasn't promoting 'responsible' drinking. This is Glastonbury, nothing is responsible here.Daylight hours see the usual weird concoction of Glastonbury 'characters.' Girls in wedding
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Five great £3000 track weapons
By Jon Urry on 31/05/2012 16:51:00
Want a road bike that'll also cut in on the track? You don't need to blow the bank, check out these smart buys instead
. The suspension will be sorted (the Öhlins forks blow seals like an Essex girl blows…), the rear ride height will be raised, the airbox expanded to help the bike breath (gaining 5bhp) and it will have race cans fitted – although they will probably be dented
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