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Readers Rides: Lap of Sussex
By Andy Gray on 30/10/2006 17:18:12
Andy Gray works as an IT consultant in central London and commutes on a Buell X1 Lightning. This is his favourite summer run to escape the rat race and take in the delights of the south coast
STARTING AT EPSOM, which is fairly renowned for big-toothed, huge-arse fillies staring at horses running around, I head out of the 'Big Smoke' on the tree-lined A24 at a steady 40mph. Not the most exciting road, but a good start to blow the morning cobwebs out, and it leads to Bo...
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Motorcycle Radar: 1996
By Roland Brown on 02/12/2010 13:38:12
Esteemed motorcycle journalist, Roland Brown, talks about what was going on in motorcycling, way back when
, but still making a naked Lightning model.Blackbird WoesFor a bike making 162bhp and 180mph Honda's Super Blackbird was a teeny bit disappointing when launched in 1996. The 1137cc motor lacked low-down grunt, and the venue, Circuit Paul Ricard on a blustery
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Motorcycle Radar: 2002
By Roland Brown on 03/12/2010 13:42:30
Roland Brown is a world class swordsman, entertainer, poet, scientist, boxer, ladies' man and motorcycle journalist. Only one of those is true.
it was finally launched in 2002. The Hornet looked quite good, even in grey paint. But instead of being a mental naked sportster powered by the latest 150bhp Blade motor, it was a dreary affair whose detuned, 108bhp unit was barely more powerful than the 599cc
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Don Morley's Exposure - August 2008
By Don Morley on 19/12/2008 15:16:44
In 1989 at the Misano 500GP all of the top riders refused to race over safety fears, the first time this had happened.
to move the time of the 500GP race, just to get peak viewing in America whose time zone was completely different.Unfortunately later that day absolutely atrocious storms were forecast, heavy thunderstorms, rain, lightning, the whole works. The track wasn
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1983 San Marino GP - Down to the Wire
By Michael Scott on 07/10/2010 10:08:42
The San Marino Grand Prix, 4 September 1983
After deposing Barry Sheene for three straight championships, Kenny Roberts stopped winning the 500GP title after 1980. He remained King Kenny nonetheless. In racing terms, his status equalled that of Valentino Rossi.In 1982, injury at the British
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Visordown's motorcycle insurance guide
By Visordown on 24/01/2012 15:18:38
Insurance is a right hassle right up to the point the man with the skillsaw has your bike away - then it's a God send. Here's our guide
if your bike is stolen, or damaged by fire, lightning, explosion, or attempted theft.Theft cover is important, especially when it comes to motorcycles, and the difference in price between the two, basic policies is usually marginal. As with third party
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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
At 14,000ft the air temperature is 28 degrees cooler than it is at sea level. As you climb the atmospheric pressure halves and the air grows painfully thin as your heart rate soars to 170bpm and your body struggles to supply enough oxygen to your
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