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Someone is Takin' the Mick
By Robin Goodwin on 30/09/2010 13:40:26
Read up on the colourful 20 year Grand Prix and TT career of Mick Grant
Pull out the slippers and plant yourself in front of a log fire and let Mick Grant talk you through his racing career.With a foreword from our Whit', the book details Granty's life from his Yorkshire roots through to all of his seven TT wins
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First Person - Mick Broom
By Visordown on 22/12/2008 09:06:22
Mick Broom has spent the last three decades building motorcycles for the eccentric millionaire Lord Hesketh’s company. Last month, he finally retired...
Having qualified as an apprentice I started working as an engineer, mainly so I could use the company’s facilities to modify engines and go racing. Then I moved onto racing motorbikes full time. If anyone would give me the right bike and the right amount of money I’d race for the...
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Experience Morocco with Honda and Mick Extance
By Nathan Clark on 24/05/2011 14:12:56
Mick Extance to lead trips of a lifetime in Morocco using Honda CRF-Xs
Press release from HondaBritain’s Dakar endurance rider Mick Extance is to lead two eight-day and two ten-day trips of a lifetime in Morocco.Riders will experience some of the most diverse and adventurous terrain in the world to include the famous
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Mick Doohan - Valentino is the best
By Visordown News on 17/09/2008 11:38:35
Grand Prix's 500cc hardman has nothing but praise for seven-time World Champion
Mick Doohan...nothing but respect for RossiFORMER 500cc motorcycle world champion Mick Doohan has heaped praise on Valentino Rossi, by saying the Italian's as good as any rider in history, following Rossi's record-breaking 69th premier class win
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Mick Walker passes away
By Visordown News on 12/03/2012 14:05:10
Italian motorcycle importer and author succumbs to cancer
ITALIAN motorcycle importer, enthusiast and author Mick Walker has died after a long battle with cancer.Walker was a former motorcycle dealer and racer, and through a keen interest in Italian machinery played a key role in Ducati's popularity
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Mick Doohan - Champion turned Businessman
By Mick Doohan on 20/10/2010 12:30:23
Mick Doohan was the most dominant force in Grand Prix racing. His legendary intolerance of fools made him as feared off the track as he was on it. Today, Doohan applies the lessons he learned on the track to his business interests
You know, before I came to Goodwood I hadn’t ridden a motorcycle since Phillip Island last October. It’s just not something I do much these days. I’ve tried to organise it a couple of times, to have a laugh riding bikes at a trackday would be cool, but something always gets in th...
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Tested: Mick Extance Trials School
By mark forsyth on 14/02/2012 11:46:48
Fun at Four mph
the mercury plunged. The day cold, snow-laden air blew in from Iceland. Me and my fourteen year-old boy jumped in the car at 6.00am to head for the Mick Extance trials school in the Peak District, not really knowing if we’d ever make it back. The emergency
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Mick Doohan lays on private jet for Hilton sisters
By Visordown News on 07/01/2009 13:05:41
Hi-flying American duo get a ride Down Under from Uncle Mick
Can't imagine why Doohan would lend his plane to her...FORMER MULTIPLE 500cc world champion Mick Doohan put his private jet to good use over the festive break by chauffeuring around social hi-flyers Paris and Nicky Hilton. The sisters, who are both
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Bad Boy No.4: Mick Doohan
By Stuart Barker on 06/12/2010 16:29:16
Doohan was a hardman even when the Arai came off, here is a chronicle of his brush with the law
Before Valentino Rossi came on the scene, many people were calling Mick Doohan the greatest motorcycle racer of all time. The Australian was the absolute master of the fire-breathing two-stroke 500cc machines when they were at their most evil and he
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Mick Doohan NSR500 art sculpture
By Robin Goodwin on 04/04/2012 12:24:22
'The Big Bang' by Australian artist Eamon O'Toole
How do you best immortalise the great Mick Doohan and the big bang Honda NSR500 with which he dominated Grand Prix racing in the 90s? An Australian artist has answered this by creating an art installation that sees a hand-created replica of the bike
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