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How to race motocross
By John Cantlie on 19/02/2009 12:13:13
It’s the cheapest and most exciting form of two-wheeled motorsport with a growing ‘veterans’ crowd of over 35 year-olds racing. Fancy something new? Here’s how to get started.
in the paddock. No smashed fairings and no ambulance home. Nothing will teach you about how to ride a bike quicker than off-roading, so here’s our beginner’s guide to getting dirty…YOUCost: FOCWhere from: All overMore than any other form of two-wheeled motorsport
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The Ramp
By John Cantlie on 22/10/2010 16:19:05
Surely there's never been a more insane idea than freestyle motocross
and exhausted. I had forgotten how physically monstrous motocross tracks are. "Alex, your body position is all wrong but the way you hit the jumps is right. John, your body positioning is good but you're attacking the jumps without carrying any speed." Frazer
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Running for the Hills of Scotland
By John Cantlie on 05/10/2003 10:07:39
From the twisting, forested passes of Loch Tay to the winding mountain roads near Cape Wrath, grippy tarmac and stunning views await riders brave enough to make the trip up to Scotland
Let me tell you now - I am a doomed man. After 10 years of dodging and ducking the magistrates, they've now got me with nine points on my licence, at least another three on the way, and unless I can convince someone to take the heat - "Hi dad, how
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Six European countries in six days
By John Cantlie on 22/10/2010 10:35:32
Head to Europe, sample 16% beer and jump out of a plane wearing a dodgy parachute. All in a week's work for our intrepid adventurer Johnny Cantlie
– all you have to do is call this number and Honda will say that everything is okay." "I understand, but I cannot do this. You must return to Latvia." "Well how about we speak with the British embassy in Estonia, and they can sort this out. I am a
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Jet and Rent: Mexico by motorcycle
By John Cantlie on 21/10/2010 16:33:13
Want to see Mexico by motorcycle. Well it's easy, really it is. We did it
MEXICOName: John CantlieBike hired: 2003 BMW GS650Miles covered: 2,048Total cost: £1,112Pros: Undiscovered country, amazing roads, perfect weather, beaches, food, beerCons: Huge distances involvedAdventure rating: Very highRight now I’m in Mexico
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Yanks
By John Cantlie on 26/11/2010 14:53:27
There are some 12,000 American military personnel stationed in the UK. Every year, they remember their fallen comrades by taking to the streets on their Hogs. This year, we tagged along for the ride
years; how does he find the UK compares to back home in Florida? “Well the roads are horrible here!” he laughs. “Seriously, when they re-surface a road back home, they go six feet down, right into the bed-rock. But here they just slap on another layer
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Vertigo - Enduro Himalaya
By John Cantlie on 06/03/2007 12:28:43
The boundaries of modern motorcycle tours have been pushed back again, as Enduro Himalaya gives you the chance to ride the most incredible mountain peaks in the world
the Himalayan foothills and serve to remind you how different it is riding a bike around here. Chaotic small towns, overturned trucks, shit-throwing monkeys and the bloated corpses of dead cows litter the roadside. And rubbish, lots of rubbish. In India
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AM to PM: Spending the longest day in Iceland
By John Cantlie on 26/07/2010 11:07:06
Summer Solstice in June means loads of warm weather and daylight to go riding in. But what happens when you go to a place where the sun never sets? 24hrs of non-stop riding in Iceland
.Getting to Iceland (population: 300,000) is simplicity itself. Hop on a plane in London and get off just three hours later. Everyone speaks English and, as I make my way through Keflavik airport, I’m amazed at how light it is at 11pm. It’s not even twilight. I’m met
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In Search of the Gotland Ring
By John Cantlie on 20/10/2010 12:41:19
Sweden. Home to Volvos and Saabs, Viggens and Vikings, preposterously expensive beer and – quite frankly – the most beautiful women on earth. ll in all, possibly the last place on earth that you’d expect anyone to build a brand new racetrack in Europe
We did a feature called ‘the Secret Circuits of Europe’. There at the top of the list was a place called the Gotland Ring. It looked fascinating. Built on the island of Gotland 50 miles east of the Swedish mainland in the frigid Baltic sea
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Altitude Sickness - Tackling Pikes Peak
By John Cantlie on 29/06/2010 15:27:47
There is a race twelve miles long, with 156 flat-out bends on a mix of tarmac and dirt. on any one of those corners, running off the track means plunging over a cliff and hitting rocks. We tackle the legendary Pikes Peak hillclimb
by John Pierce, ex-racer and a resident of Nashville, Tennessee, riding an Aprilia SXV550. The 70bhp V-twins sounded amazing on their open race pipes; my KTM was just loud. Our three-man squad looked the bollocks: bikes all stickered up with sponsor
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