breaking my nose, a rib, and losing a couple of teeth. This year I’d be doing six runs up the hill on a race prepped KTM Super Duke. With big bars and loads of grunt this bike should’ve been just about the perfect machine for demo runs up the Goodwood hill

Mr James Whitham and Mr Niall Mackenzie are down in the country for the weekend. It's going to be a topping few days of sport as our two heroes tear around the track on their fine machines, filling the air with an aroma of hot oil and warm rubber

Bray Hill on my first lap of practice, I had no clue where I was going, just boundless enthusiasm and a nervous grin across my pimply face. At home the 18 year old Whitham wasn’t even considered sensible enough to use the remote-control for the telly

Daytona. I’d done the tricky bits and as I went under the inflatable finish arch thing at the top of the hill where the road kinks a bit, I thought it would be a good idea to do a fourth gear, stood-on-the-pegs 70mph wheelie.It wasn’t until I started

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

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

’s something about it you just don’t get anywhere else. I took an old mechanic of mine over a couple of years ago, an Italian bloke I’d worked with during my Yamaha Italy years. He was full of Italian cool until he saw John McGuinness hauling down Bray hill

and Tommy Hill nicks Robbie Rolfo’s Altea Honda. The good thing for us is that none of these riders or teams are also rans. They should all be capable of running near the front come the first round of the championship. Even with the doom and gloom merchants

the pit lane with Fabien Foret at Brands after a 130mph difference of opinion over the correct line into paddock hill bend, to be fair he gave a surprisingly good account of himself . . . for a Frenchman ! And who could forget the time Pier Francesco

stereo systems; ridiculous weight; enormous 1500+cc engines (two V-twins and a fl at six); gobsmacking road presence.The destination was for fun and scenery, the journey there and back a real test of these bikes’ capabilities. James Whitham and his good