The rest of the lads from my Belgarda Yamaha team were testing at Misano recently. They were only trying out some ECU stuff and other small things so they said to me it wasn't necessary for me to go. But I just received a text message from Maio, my team manager, saying that Paolo...

We went out for a night in Bradford recently, to an Elvis impersonator evening. The bloke were called Liberty something, and it were a right big do, with a proper massed backing band and everything. Afterwards we went to a curry house, a whole load of us including my brother-in-...

I went flying with the RAF at Lossiemouth recently, for a feature that you'll be able to read in TWO in a couple of months. It was really good fun, and all the better for someone like me who has some background in flying. It's a different world. All those G-forces are an evil thi...

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 ...

Jamie Whitham 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. In his regular column, the fastest Yorkshireman on two wheels welcomes us into the wonderful

Earnshaws, my local bike shop in Huddersfield, has occasional midweek bike runs out and this time round I went along. Me and a pal of mine, King, went - him on his nearly brand new Fazer 1000 and me on an FJR1300, sports-tourer thing, I borrowed from the shop. The night were bill...

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...

height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /After so many years of defying death in racing, at really fast speeds, now I'm retired I've just had one of mybiggest near death experiences of them all - driving a tractor...

height=10width:300px; margin:5px 0px 5px 10px;" align="center"black solid; margin-bottom:2px;" width="300" /Ever wondered how a man with no arms could wipe his own backside? Well, don't worry, I'm about to tell you...Way back when I was riding a 125 MBA in the British Championshi...

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