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Whitham's USA Road Trip
By James Whitham on 15/09/2010 11:13:28
James Whitham and The Po'boys head west to the USA to cruise Route 66 on a Honda...
the other way. (Arizona is just a bit bigger than the whole of the UK, we’re bound to bump into ’em, right?) From there the four of us would head off in a big, anti-clockwise loop of Arizona, Nevada and California, ending up back in LA a week later
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Things that go bump in the night
By James Whitham on 21/10/2010 14:26:42
In the deepest thickets of Derbyshire, a strange new breed of trail-rider is eschewing daytime riding in favour of heading out in the thick of night…
Like playing conkers, gurning or chasing down a steep hill after a lump of cheese, the idea of going trail riding in the middle of the night, in the middle of the winter, slots straight into the cardboard box labelled ‘British eccentricity’. I’ve done loads of trail riding over t...
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James Whitham Column - Mar 10
By James Whitham on 20/03/2010 11:02:54
He moans. He goes to the shops. He breaks eggs to make an omelette. He meets famous people. He is James Whitham and he invites you to enjoy a Pennine winter
was the scene of utter carnage that confronted me as I turned out of the lane onto the main road. Instead of leaving a gap and trying to keep a bit of momentum going everyone was nose to tail, so when one mallet-headed driver decided the best way of getting a
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Whitham's guide to auction bidding
By James Whitham on 20/10/2010 14:43:15
James has bought all manner of odd things at bike auctions and is no stranger to how the game is played. here are his tips on how to bag the bargain of your dreams...
nibble. I bought a lovely RD250DX like that. But that’s risky. Always have a clear cut-off point in your head where you’re going to stop bidding, and stick to it.Bike auctions tend to be quite specialised. In that room the collective knowledge is huge
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Save £500 on your next bike
By James Whitham on 21/04/2010 14:24:13
Compulsive bike buyer James Whitham on how to save a monkey
miles away.Hit big dealers towards the end of the monthGo into one of the huge, multi-showroom dealers in the last couple of days of the month. These kind of places usually have sales targets handed down from head office. If you drop in at the end of a
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James Whitham Column - Apr 2008
By James Whitham on 12/04/2008 11:54:36
Having escaped a near-death experience at the hands of his wife a shaken James Whitham is planning his revenge. But not before witnessing a display of Spanish bin foraging...
-fit than motocrossing is.Within 10 minutes on the blower I had a dozen enthusiastic amateur trials riders leaping into their vans and heading for Yorkshire from all points of the compass. Among them were Leon Haslam and his dad Ron (old enough to know
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James Whitham Column - Apr 2009
By James Whitham on 01/04/2009 11:22:53
Whitham talks of growing old disgracefully, the boundless joy of heated handlebar grips and destroying rural derbyshire on one of those vile quad machines...
, shake their heads and then go back in for more Pinot Grigio.Strangely, even though I’ve been lucky enough to ride pretty much every type of bike you can think of over the years, I’ve not done much with quads. Though in many ways you ride ‘em like a bike
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James Whitham Column - Aug 10
By James Whitham on 30/07/2010 13:08:04
Using Yorkshire grit (mined from a rich seam under the Pennines) James Whitham and favva, travel to the TT in Manx comfort and style. They could have been in an Austin 1800
/son bonding trip, but the day turned into a series of queues. We queued to get in, we queued to go to the toilet, we queued to buy a cup of tea and we queued to get out... and all we got to see all day were the backs of other people’s heads. We heard the bikes
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James Whitham's Fizzy Rascals
By James Whitham on 12/01/2011 16:52:51
Huddersfield to Spa on seven Yamaha FS1Es to ride priceless GP bikes the other end. What could possibly go wrong? Whitham rounds up six buddies and departs on a moped pilgrimage
Revisiting Whitham's trip to Spa on a FizzyIf you’ve been a reader of the mag for any length of time you can’t have failed to notice that as well as my love of modern bikes, I have an unhealthy interest in older ones. Particularly 1970’s two
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James Whitham Column - Feb 2008
By James Whitham on 15/02/2008 12:51:37
Another busy month in the Whitham mansions. He mourns the passing of his first jump-bike and the best jumper, and recounts an hilarious night in the company of the Fogartys
generation of kids to head for the local rec on their choppers and fashion ramps out of bricks and planks. At the time I had a Raleigh Whisp, a 50cc two-stroke ladies shopping bike that my dad had found in a skip outside his work and brought home in the boot
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