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Crown Jewels - AGV Helmets
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/10/2003 09:05:35
So just how do Italian helmet manufacturers AGV protect the most precious head in motorcycle racing? Bertie headed to Italy to find out making a helmet for Valentino Rossi must be akin to trying to make a crown fit for a king
to speak.AGV currently have four factories, one in the Czech Republic, one in Malaysia, one in Indonesia and the one in Italy. They've been around for years. They first started making crash helmets back in 1947. Since then they've supported numerous World
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Fit for purpose: Diablo 666 Endurance ZX-10R
By Bertie Simmonds on 20/10/2010 10:03:37
The average road bike does a bit of everything. But there are machines in the biking world designed to do one job only. Pure specialists if you will. These are the bikes...
or riding on the street, but with some important differences. We wear fluorescent light-reflective arm-bands and strips on our helmets. Each of the three riders has a different colour so we're recognisable. Reflective spots on the bike help us
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One day, scooters will take over motorbikes
By Bertie Simmonds on 27/03/2010 10:08:12
Scooters will succeed bikes as the planet's two-wheeler of choice
how capable a big-bore scooter could be on twisty roads, autoroutes and in town centres. Hell, we even stuffed a helmet-less cool as FCUK local Sicilian on a Z1000. Yes, a scooter can provide that much fun. Little wonder that more than 350
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What's MotoGP ever done for us? Pt.2
By Bertie Simmonds on 05/05/2010 12:52:33
Following on from looking into how Grand Prix racing has revolutionised the very bikes we ride, here’s how the riding kit the fastest racers on the planet wear has shaped what we use today
mates actually mean that a while later the kit we wear has improved quantifiably? Barry Sheene’s era in the 1970s and 1980s saw some big leaps forward in protection – notably for Barry himself – while on the road most of us just wore a crash helmet (‘cos
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Icon: Two Fat Ladies - Proper TV cooks
By Bertie Simmonds on 22/06/2002 16:04:43
Two thundering game birds who cooked thundering game birds, and batted about on a trusty Thunderbird combination
. Shortly before her death, she told anyone who visited to bring caviar, rather than flowers. A biker to the last her favourite crash helmet (with the words 'Born Wild' on it) was buried with her.Clarissa has lived an equally colourful life. She became a
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Living with a 2003 Suzuki GSX-R1000
By Bertie Simmonds on 10/11/2003 13:54:39
It's big, it's old and a bit of a relic. But enough about Bertie, see how he got on with the monster GSX-R1000
through the thousand mile barrier and was booked up for the first service back at Crescent. But first a whizz down Brunters' runway on a helmet launch. Maxing out a bike concentrates the mind wonderfully, and no more so than on the 1000. I managed to see
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Living with a 2002 Aprilia RSV Mille R
By Bertie Simmonds on 12/12/2002 11:48:54
Did Bertie get on with the RSV Mille R, read on for his longterm verdict...
June 2002On your right is the Aprilia RSV Mille R. Bertie Simmonds not pictured. And why wasn't I? Well, I just couldn't do it...Sticking my ugly mug in the picture alongside such a thing of great beauty would have been tantamount to Bernard Manning
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Living with a 2004 Honda CB1300
By Bertie Simmonds on 12/09/2004 15:56:49
Finally a bike that doesn't look like a Bertie's riding a mini moto. Yes it's the mighty CB1300 review
In a bid to bond with his new Honda CB1300 longtermer, Bertie books up on a Brettour and heads for the Ardennes. These postcards turned up a few days laterDear TWO,Things haven't started well. I bent the key to the CB in the helmet lock when I
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