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Kings of the Hill
By Warren Pole on 22/06/2009 10:45:41
Ducati's Hypermotard goes toe-to-toe with KTM and Buell through the vicious twists and turns of a Championship hill-climb event in Wiltshire
"Are you the blokes coming from the bike magazine?" asked the guy next to us as we parked up in the paddock. Damn. He'd seen straight through our clueless expressions, our brand new road legal bikes masquerading as hill-climb racers and our bungling
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Kings of the Hill
By Warren Pole on 18/03/2008 22:58:28
Ducati's Hypermotard goes toe-to-toe with KTM and Buell through the vicious twists and turns of a Championship hill-climb event in Wiltshire
legal bikes masquerading as hill-climb racers and our bungling incompetence as we struggled to make our machines ready for scrutineering. "Yes", we mumbled, looking at our boots. "Great, want me to show you the track?" His name was John and, like all
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Road Test: XB12 v Ducati Hypermotard v KTM 950
By Warren Pole on 28/05/2008 23:02:31
Ducati's Hypermotard goes toe-to-toe with KTM and Buell through the vicious twists and turns of a Championship hill-climb event in Wiltshire.
"Are you the blokes coming from the bike magazine?" asked the guy next to us as we parked up in the paddock. Damn. He'd seen straight through our clueless expressions, our brand new road legal bikes masquerading as hill-climb racers and our bungling
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Icon - Peter Purves
By Warren Pole on 28/10/2010 15:32:01
A legend. Peter Purves has been in tons of cult TV shows and a stable of British television in Blue Peter and anchoring the Crufts dog show, but it is his role as the face of Kickstart for its entire 13-series run that we find Mr Purves here as an icon
job.It wasn't all plain sailing with the White Helmets though as by his own admission Peter spent "more time on the floor than anything else", on one occasion riding into a tank trap hidden behind a large hill. "I'd only been there an hour or so
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Sidecarcross - Guaranteed Danger
By Warren Pole on 19/10/2010 10:21:20
Sidecar cross is Ben Hur minus the horses. Just add fearsome 100bhp 750cc two-strokes instead. Surely the best chance to lose Wozza forever?
his race bike I wanted to leg it for the hills. Sadly there are no hills in Holland so I had to stay put. This machine was terrifyingly slick and when that motor barked into life its chainsaw din simply told me this bike wanted to rip me into little
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Road Test: BMW K1200R
By Warren Pole on 27/04/2008 21:48:52
It's big, it's weird looking and it doesn't have any clothes on. Oh yes, and it's very, very fast. Are BMW about to take the naked bruiser class by storm?
restrained pace would be advisable. Well, I managed for about a mile, then it all went to pieces as the incredibly-surfaced roads opened up to carve into the hills ahead."The BMW made me do it," is not an alibi I suspect many magistrates have heard before
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The Breakfast Run
By Warren Pole on 29/11/2010 14:50:39
Wozza gets a rude awakening when he joins up for a (very) early morning run
motorcycles at all hours of the day, all days of the week, and in order to get to all manner of dining engagements, the last thing I've ever really fancied doing on a weekend off is getting up at dawn to ride into the hills in search of tea and sausages
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Road Test: F650 v TE610 v DR-Z400S v XT660R
By Warren Pole on 14/10/2010 22:56:36
Can the latest crop of dual-purpose on/off-roaders really hack it in the rough stuff? Team Visordown dons its goggles and has a trail of a time finding out. Let's soft road!
be the equivalent of the ridiculous four-by-fours favoured by posh mums for taking little Tarquin to prep school. After all, the three-mile run into Primrose Hill is terribly tough these days and an 18-geared, armour-plated gas guzzling tank with 'roo bars really
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Sliding Stateside: AMA Flat Track
By Warren 'Wozza' Pole on 28/10/2002 15:06:21
US Flat-tracking is changing its image and producing the next generation of future MotoGP and WSB racers. No longer looking like extras from the set of Deliverance, these new flat-trackers are cool kids with modern gear and a whole new attitude...
middle of nowhere) and our final destination of the Honda Hills flat track circuit where we're hooking up with Larry Pegram and Marc Williams, two of America's hottest flat track riders.The track itself turns out to be an unspectacular looking half
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