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James Whitham Column - Aug 10
By James Whitham on 30/07/2010 13:08:04
Using Yorkshire grit (mined from a rich seam under the Pennines) James Whitham and favva, travel to the TT in Manx comfort and style. They could have been in an Austin 1800
Over the last few years the Isle of Man TT races have gone through a real transformation and there‘s a buzz about the place I haven‘t seen since the late ’80s. The lowest ebb was probably the late ’90s. At that time very few younger riders were even
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James Whitham Column - Nov 2008
By James Whitham on 12/11/2008 20:05:33
This month James has to work on his interview technique as well as witnessing the destruction of a classic bike due to a small fire and a tartan rug...
Forest, run’ from the directors truck was a bit uncalled for! The book seams to be selling okay and I’ve been all over the place doing signing sessions in various bookshops. One of these was in a shop in the Isle of Man and had been timed to coincide
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Jamie Whitham Column - Aug 03
By Jamie Whitham on 01/08/2003 12:06:57
travelled to a few dos together.It's shit news and the Isle of Man's like that. Everybody who goes knows the risks and Dave knew them as well as anybody. The thing about Dave that makes it easier to think of is that he would still have raced
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James Whitham Column - Aug 2008
By James Whitham on 12/08/2008 12:28:19
This month James is reminded of his youth when he learnt a valuable lesson. an angry man in black leathers with an orange bib gave him a bollocking...
at the Isle of man TT was as enjoyable as it always is. This year, to mark the 50th anniversary of Ducati’s first entry in a TT, and (more importantly in my book) the 30th anniversary of Hailwood’s famous F1 TT win in ’78, everyone taking part in the parade
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Jamie Whitham Column - Sep 2007
By Jamie Whitham on 01/09/2007 16:46:05
James attempts to kick start World War III with a bit of drain pipe, hair spray and a bag of spuds as Huddersfield's answer to Rambo takes on the German hoards. Achtung, Spitfire!
devices I've seen for ages made it's first appearance in the Isle of Man. Shoey has constructed a 'potato cannon'. Made from a metre long piece of 50mm drain pipe, fuelled by hairspray or contact cleaner, and fired with one of those sparky things you get
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James Whitham Column - Nov 09
By James Whitham on 27/11/2009 15:30:47
James takes an expensive trip down memory lane, an even pricier trip to Cyprus and realises that he’s perhaps not the best man in Huddersfield to preach road safety...
Huddersfield.From the coach on the way to the resort I’d noticed a rental place called “Isle of Man TT bikes” – this looked the very place for me while I left Andrea to read celebrity magazines and Ruby to play with her inflatable dolphin . Problem
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Jamie Whitham Column - May 2007
By Jamie Whitham on 01/05/2007 12:18:50
What's more painful, a broken femur or a tube up your love muscle? Don't know? Well James Whitham does, of course, as a former secret shopper for the NHS
make out two or more blokes attempting to knock the be-jeezas out of one another. Anyway, this wasn't a gig in a bar full of piss-heads, it was a well attended charity night in aid of, among other things, the Isle of Man TT helicopter fund. Michael
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Jamie Whitham Column - May 2006
By Jamie Whitham on 01/05/2006 13:50:26
Lunatic fragments of life from the twisted world of a famous ex-racer
the Isle of Man helicopter fund and a private children's hospice called Hope House. The bloke behind the night, Phil, was keen on us going to Hope House to meet the staff and some of the kids. I've been to a hospice before and was prepared
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James Whitham Column - Feb 2008
By James Whitham on 15/02/2008 12:51:37
Another busy month in the Whitham mansions. He mourns the passing of his first jump-bike and the best jumper, and recounts an hilarious night in the company of the Fogartys
Sometimes it’s difficult as a child to fully appreciate some of the things you get to witness. I remember like it was yesterday sitting on a packed grassy banking at Glen Helen in the Isle of Man with my old fella and watching the 1978 formula one
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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...
this is important because what you are after is an emulsion. And if you pour the milk in last you end up with a mixture instead. And that’s no good.Well according to a bloke I met the other day who’d seen Guy talking about it on TV at the Isle Of Man this year
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