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First Ride: 2008 Harley-Davidson Range
By Grant Leonard on 02/04/2008 17:53:08
Harley-Davidson present the cast of another Mad Max sequel - Rocker, Fat Bob and the Nightster. Remember the Nightster!
at Daytona.Quick interview opportunity - I asked him where he'd been hiding since Easy Rider - what had he been doing for the last 25 years? "36 films," he replied, turning and walking off. Well, I hadn't seen any of them...So the Rocker rides well, which
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The Professionals - Murray Walker
By on 09/09/2009 17:26:51
The legend that is Murray Walker was the voice of Motorsport for over 50 years and has been a keen biker all his life...
We’ve just run a feature that claims racers of the last three decades were more heroic than the racers today. Do you agree?Yes, but only in the last year or two. It has been disappointing in MotoGP but only because of the dominance of Stoner and the Ducati on Bridgestones. But we...
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First Person - Petr Galatik
By Petr Galatik on 09/09/2009 17:32:38
Petr Galatik is a 34 year old from the Czech Republic who works for cash in the UK and rides a Yamaha YZF750
My hometown is a place called Ostrava, in the Czech Republic, I used to work as a mechanic in a truck factory there. I really enjoy working on the tools, taking something that doesn’t want to work anymore and bringing it back to life. My skill has certainly helped me revive a few...
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Michael Scott Column - Nov 09
By Michael Scott on 27/11/2009 15:53:54
Can Stoner bounce back with a vengeance? Will Rossi ever race a Ducati? Is all this inside leg waving a load of old crap? Scotty might just have all the answers...
one face-to-face interview with Rossi per year. Mine was last weekend, and perhaps in recognition of long service he gave me a scoop.Only a week before Yamaha had re-signed Lorenzo as his team-mate, Rossi had smiled about it in public, and repeated his
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Buckmaster lambasts Martin over TT behaviour
By Visordown News on 23/06/2010 07:56:02
He needs to drop the ‘I am only interested in racing my bikes and sleeping in the van act’
interviewed has no excuse but then again this is all part of the problem that is stopping him from winning at the TT – he is not approaching it seriously or with a professional attitude, instead spending far too much time promoting this image of what type
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Michael Scott Column - Jul 2009
By Michael Scott on 01/07/2009 10:29:03
Paddock sage Scott on the British GP debacle and Marco Melandri’s resurrection
quipped in an interview directly after the race.We already know Scott Redding – last year’s first British 125 winner in 35 years – is a talent to watch, and that Kentish kid Danny Webb is knocking on the door of similar success, too.What with poor James
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Michael Scott Column - Dec 2008
By Michael Scott on 01/12/2008 10:43:42
Michael Scott wonders if Rossi has elevated himself above God status with his eighth World title. And why Dani is so unpopular with, well, everyone
stamping approval on Rossi’s ‘title deed’, set new standards in all these areas. Hardly a major scandal. But it went on so long that it meant BBC and worldwide TV viewers were denied post-race interviews (in the case of the BBC, this might be considered a
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Behind the Haslams - Anne Haslam
By Visordown on 07/10/2010 17:22:46
Behind every great man, there's a great woman. And that woman is also the mother of the mega-talented Leon Haslam. This is Anne Haslam's story
I WAS working in an ironmonger’s shop when I met Ron Haslam. I was studying dance and had visions of doing that as a career, and I was only 15 at the time while he was 20.I was dating a friend of his called Tony, I felt bad about it but couldn’t help myself! Tony was into bikes a...
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The Professionals: Tim Maccabee - Ducati UK Managing Director
By Visordown on 20/10/2007 12:50:07
He's the man who's in charge of Ducati's UK day-to-day operations, so what's it like dealing with the Italians?
How tough were the last three years for Ducati?Well it's been interesting for sure! Last year, looking from the outside you would have said it wasn't a good year for Ducati at all, but behind the scenes we were restructuring the company internally. We put a lot of building-blocks...
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First Person: Roger Simmons, Suzuki GB
By Visordown on 20/10/2010 13:04:22
He knows his way around a swear word or two, he's Suzuki GB's head mechanic and former European development rider from 1982 to 2005.
My first bike was a Honda CB92, an immaculate thing it was and very collectible too, so I hacked the exhausts off and destroyed it in a field. I paid £4 for that bike. I got into racing when I was 19, me and a mate built a Honda 500 four-stroke single in a Tony Foale cantilever c...
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