bike fan who's had some fairly useful machinery clutter up his garage. He started off, having discovered bikes in his late 20s, with a CB500 twin. From this worthy learner bike he went back in time to a brakeless 1971 Honda CB750 before returning

clubs, it's a massive celebration of motorcycling and a key fund-raiser for the British Motorcyclists Federation. Unlike many smaller shows, major manufacturers including, BMW, Triumph, Honda, Yamaha and Victory will be displaying their latest ranges

!Thanks to Honda for the loan of their Hornet...Lapping the course really drives home how amazingly brave and skilled these riders are. It takes a special type of person to guide an R1 at flat chat in sixth gear down roads littered with signposts, lamp posts

everything in my power to win as many races as possible for Honda. The team have done a fantastic job preparing the race bikes and I reckon the results speak for themselves - I'm over the moon to have clocked up a 129mph average in practice."So you reckon a

podium this year. Honda Gresini have been unlucky but Marco's solid results have retained his fourth place in the championship while Toni was unlucky not to challenge for a top five result in his home GP last weekend. Finally, the Kawasaki

of him and although he too suffered with grip issues he brought his Suzuki GSV-R home safely in 11th place.Today's race was watched by 101,048 fans at trackside as they baked in the beautiful sunshine. Honda's Dani Pedrosa took victory, with Stoner

) who rode very well throughout the weekend but was penalised for a jump start in race 3 and the very personable George Clements (Honda CRF450) who was just off the pace of the Aprilias in front of him. The British 450 Supermoto Championship battle

alter tyre behaviour but Bridgestone hopes to continue its recent competitive streak which has seen 11 wins on its tyres and 29 podiums across its five teams - Ducati, Suzuki, Honda Gresini, Kawasaki and Pramac d'Antin. Bridgestone has a good record

Honda Civic in tasteful Granny Green. 100 metres ahead on the left is a Royal Mail van parked up. Hazard lights flashing, as if to say "Hello, yes you, corpse. I'm parked ya see, so you have to look ahead, then go round me"Panic! There is another car

than Triumph and Honda. When you live in such an environment it's difficult to have a healthy mental outlook and years can, and often are, spent waiting for your own mental cracks to get bigger and bigger before taking over.I'd get to work and would