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Dr Claudio Costa - Medicine Man
By Harriet Ridley on 14/09/2010 15:50:07
Meet Dr Costa. He's a very passionate Italian who has spent the past 30 years at motorcycle races fixing up racers who crash. Here's his story
me to follow them during the motorcycling world championship. So I attended every meeting first with a briefcase, then with some more advanced medical equipment bundled in a car. I soon realised I needed serious machinery that would tell me whether a
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Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club & WIMA
By Luke Ponsford on 22/10/2007 16:01:30
You may be a man, and a 100% hetero one, but not all bikers are. Ponsford meets the ladies and gents who don't subscribe to the macho riding agenda...
. There's no football on the telly, no drunken codger in the corner, and - surprise - no women. Which is something of a relief, as it means I'm in the right place to meet the Gay Bikers Motorcycle Club (London chapter).In existence since 1977, the Gay
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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
cobwebs out, and it leads to Box Hill, which is always worth a quick stop. Despite the police presence and speed cameras I quite like Box Hill, mainly for the burgers.Past Dorking and the A24 meets up with the A272. This is a good dreamers' road, full
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Reader's Rides: Kent
By Visordown on 29/11/2010 15:16:17
The roads you know and love. Head to Kent and check out reader Gary Burns' favourite roads
Gary Burns, 39, is a field service technician from Ashford. He rides a 'mint' '98 R1. Here's his favourite Sunday run with the lads."This is a route me and a few mates do on a Sunday. As a couple of them come from Maidstone we meet at the junction
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Reader's Rides: Folkestone Rumble
By Visordown on 29/11/2010 17:34:46
Reader Luke Williams sent us his favourite route around the Folkestone area. Get on!
Luke Williams, 27, is a DJ by night and an 'aqua spiritualist' (eh?) by day. He rides a supermoto'd 1989 KX 500."Starting in Folkestone Harbour take the A259 south towards New Romney. Take care through Sandgate as there are a couple of speed cameras and hidden side roads. Attack ...
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The Pioneer Motorcycle Run
By Colin Goodwin on 14/10/2010 13:18:06
Toodle pip and chocks away, Ginger! Visordown's off on the oldest classic bike run in Blighty. Hurrah! Don't spare the horses, and last one home's a rotten egg
Back in 1912, W. Harry Bashall won the Junior TT on a Douglas in 3hrs 46min 59sec at an average speed of 39.65mph. Pig slow you say, but right this moment the enormity of his achievement is beginning to dawn on me as I am riding a 1912 Douglas, very much like the one Bashall must...
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Yanks
By John Cantlie on 26/11/2010 14:53:27
There are some 12,000 American military personnel stationed in the UK. Every year, they remember their fallen comrades by taking to the streets on their Hogs. This year, we tagged along for the ride
Well this is a bloody weird sight in the middle of Suffolk, I think to myself. Americans buying donuts and Hershey bars with dollars in a Taco Bell canteen. Everywhere I look, it’s Uncle Sam’s war machine. M-4 carbines with ACOG gunsights, coffee cups the size of buckets, Humvees...
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Mr Chopper - Billy Lane
By Warren pole on 29/10/2007 19:54:00
He's America's most notorious chopper builder and a stateside household name in his own right, his bikes go for as much as $150,000 each and he's signed more naked breasts than you've had hot dinners. Meet Billy Lane
Just 10 miles and 20 minutes out of Sarasota on our trip to Florida's East coast to meet Billy Lane and already things aren't going well for snapper Simon and myself. First we have to make an unscheduled pit stop for me to heave my guts up
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All The King's Men - Rossi's Entourage
By Gordon Ritchie on 23/06/2005 16:53:38
Being a MotoGP superhero makes Valentino Rossi very popular indeed. But all that fame can be a burden. Here we meet Vale's inner circle - the close allies who control and protect his image
Rossi's logos include the sun and moon, as he must surely meet himself coming back over the horizon sometimes.The reasons why Rossi is simply the biggest thing ever in our sport are myriad, but for our purposes we can temporarily lay them to one side
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20 things that drive you mad about biking
By Visordown on 07/12/2011 11:18:43
You love motorcycling, but there are aspects to riding bikes that never fail to drive you round the bend. We’ve identified the very things you hate the most, from unscuffed kneesliders to the British weather...
Hovercraft onto his stolen moped, doubling his horsepower to a mighty 9bhp...Knee slidersWhy do people display knee sliders like some scuffed medal of honour? Blokes who walk around the car park of a biker meet with incredibly scuffed sliders, pretending
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