Been doing a fair bit recently, as it's been the last bit of summer. I did a day out at Scott Leathers' Open Day recently. There were loads of them there - MonsterMob team, the Kangaroo Kid quad bike rider bloke, Craig Jones the stunt bloke. Jimmy Aird from Scott wanted me to com...

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I went to see Simmo racing at Donington one year. He hadn't left a pass for me at the gate, so after I'd blagged my way in I made a beeline for his truck; an old Mercedes 608 thing, bikes in the back and living area in the front. I started into him, "Where's me bloody tickets?"...

1992 was the era of the Harris and ROC Yamahas; full-on GP bikes you could run reasonably competitively in a private team. Carl Fogarty and I were supposed to be in a new team, with a big sponsor and all that, but it never turned out that way! Nonetheless we raced at Macau on bra...

Back in 1988, I was riding for the official Suzuki Importer team, with Mez Mellor as the other rider and Mick Grant as manager. It wasn't a high budget affair and we all had to muck in as much as we could. We had eight bikes between us and rode TT F-1, Seniorstock, unlimited prod...

The only time you used to get to race at Silverstone in your early career was at the Marlboro Clubmans Finals. There were a load of top Clubbie people and there were a couple of us sharing a van, plus helpers.You always think Silverstone is flat, but there's a bit of a slope on i...

WHEN YOU WERE A kid did you ever want to appear on a TV program? I wrote to Jimmy Saville two or three times asking him to fix it for me to drive a tank, and even rang Noel Edmonds' Saturday Swapshop once. Well it's taken me 30 years, but I'm finally going to be appearing on a ...

IT'S NOT BEEN A GOOD MONTH for us at TWO. First up Evil Jim (Bowen) had a fairly lucky escape in the 1000s test in the south of France when he slithered off the ZX-10R. We were doing some photos on a stretch of mountain road above Montpellier and had found the ideal corner. Going...

WELL, IT WAS bound to happen sooner or later I suppose. A commentator's worst nightmare. Jack (Burnicle) and me are up at Donington to do the commentary on the World Superbike round. Everything is going swimmingly, we're in the commentary booth half an hour before the first race,...

AT FIRST I thought a scuffle had broken out. I'd seen a similar thing when I drummed for The Po' Boys in some of the less salubrious local clubs. The first thing you see from the stage is the crowd part slightly, and then your eyes zero in and you make out two or more blokes atte...