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Trials & Error - Whitham rides a Montesa
By James Whitham on 21/09/2010 14:40:17
Motorcycles aren't all about going fast - sometimes they go up vertical walls instead. Whit blags a go on Dougie Lampkin's trials bike and wishes he was somewhere else
thing they could've put next to my name was, 'J. Whitham - had a Bultaco once'. The phrase 'out of my fucking depth' doesn't even come close.I needn't have worried. Like a pack of scrap-yard guard dogs the Montesa staff smell my fear and, in an effort
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James Whitham Column - Jan 10
By James Whitham on 30/01/2010 10:32:03
James talks granny flaps (bingo wings to us), bee stings, puss-filled arms and the disrespectful nature of pit lane humour. But picking Guy Martin up on tea making...
and a trip to hospital was inevitable.The system at A&E has changed a bit since I’d last been. I was told to take a seat in the waiting area, next to a bloke in overalls with a bloody tea towel wrapped round his hand. After an hour or so my name
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James Whitham Column - Aug 01
By James Whitham on 13/08/2001 10:48:06
James has never let the glamour and fame of World Championship racing get in the way of being a down-to-earth, funny-as-fook, all-round good bloke.
. They had to get the ambulance and everything. He had a night in hospital, too. Poor bugger!The race wasn't too great for me at Lausitzring, but when you qualify as badly as I do generally, you're asking for it, being stuck in the middle of the pack, so I
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James Whitham Column - Sep 10
By James Whitham on 02/08/2010 13:25:27
You can say what you like about Yorkshire’s James Whitham, but when he gets it wrong, he really knows how to get it so completely wrong it’s not even funny. Well maybe a little bit...
Schwantz, Boet van Dulman, Mick Doohan, etc, etc. Andrea picked me up from hospital – she was really pissed off because she’d bought a new frock and stuff for the big bash the night of the hillclimb. There’s no way I was going to that.In the car on the way
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James Whitham Scrapbook: Part One
By James Whitham on 06/06/2011 11:44:27
A life in comedy photographs
by a fellow competitor for a similar offence. Perhaps Nobles Hospital was the safest place for me to be!I throw myself at the mercy of the court with this one. This is Carl Fogarty and me on holiday... we were in Fuertaventura with the girls in 1990. I
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