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Whitham's blog 4
By James Whitham on 07/01/2011 10:53:27
Yorkshire thrift !
on and then leave the bike in your garage for two months like I did. I got it out to go for a play to find the motor completely full of fuel, crank-cases the lot . . . . . . Mint !
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Foggy feels the pressure and five thousand magic merlin horsepower. . . the Whitham blog
By James Whitham . on 27/09/2010 11:50:06
, with the emphasis being on humour. The reaction from the crowd was mint and people got to see a side of Carl they wouldn't have known existed. I've been mates with Foggy for 25 years, but even I was shocked at how nervous he got, especially before the first night
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Colditz
By Jon Urry on 01/11/2005 16:41:47
It's every officer's duty to escape. So our four battle-weary soldiers slipped the confines of Blighty for the freedom of Germany's autobahns to stretch the legs of four very fast bikes
World War II sites. "You've got to visit Colditz," he enthused while everyone tried to look interested in something else. "It's mint, there's a museum about all the escapes and everything." Fair enough then, tail packs very firmly bungeed on and we were
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Road Test: ZX-12R v CBR1100XX v K1200S v GSX1300R
By Jon Urry on 07/05/2008 19:55:48
It's every officer's duty to escape. So our four battle-weary soldiers slipped the confines of Blighty for the freedom of Germany's autobahns to stretch the legs of four very fast bikes.
World War II sites. "You've got to visit Colditz," he enthused while everyone tried to look interested in something else. "It's mint, there's a museum about all the escapes and everything." Fair enough then, tail packs very firmly bungeed on and we were
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I Love The 70's
By Stuart Barker on 27/10/2010 15:42:48
Whats not to love about the 70's, lairy cars, crazy dress-sense, hairy women (forget the last bit). TWO feature looking at 70's biking
later, returned less than 30mpg from a 497cc engine.But if you were going to have a rotary and your middle name was Minted, you couldn't have done any better than the incredible Van Veen OCR1000. Outrageously priced at £15,000 (or £65,747.86 in today
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I Love The 90s
By Stuart Barker on 04/11/2010 09:39:01
Choose a FireBlade. Choose a Ducati 916. Choose born-again bikers, track days, Mick Doohan and Carl Fogarty. Choose the 1990s.
of the motorcycling press were anything to go by, then scorn him you most certainly did. Mostly because accident statistics often showed these elder bikers to be crashers which in turn pushed everyone's premiums up, and because they wobbled round roundabouts on mint
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Living with a 2009 Harley Davidson XR1200
By James Whitham on 23/10/2009 10:56:37
James Whitham's review of the Harley XR1200
when they see me getting off it is mint. If they’re a motorcyclist their first question is invariably “what the f**k are you doing on that ?”, shortly followed by “what’s it like ?”. And back in the real world, away from racetracks, non
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Teenage Kicks
By Warren Pole on 01/04/2005 12:11:08
Grubby oiks on the rob, or the very future of motorcycling? Wozza hunts out the kids on scooters to find out
, burnouts, texting, and more wheelies. I'd started this feature half-expecting to be mugged by a bunch of barely-literate oiks, but now here I was in the middle of their world and I couldn't have been more wrong. This lot are mint and in it for the love
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The Great Field Bike Challenge
By John Hogan on 07/09/2009 16:53:14
For less than £200 you can buy a field bike. Now convince five mates to do the same and have the best afternoon’s racing of your life. Re-discover the reason you got into bikes in the first place for less than the price of a night out in London . .
, and it costs the same as your council tax bill.JOHN CANTLIEBike: 1993 Honda C90Price paid: £200Where from: eBayCondition: MintUnlike all the other fools here I knew from the outset which was the right bike to have: the immortal C90. With a field-perfect 7bhp
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Longest Test: Yamaha YZF-R6
By Niall Mackenzie on 02/11/2009 10:37:09
Our undisputed king of the Supersport class for 2009, Niall Mackenzie explains why he wouldn’t swap the YZF-R6 for anything else...
Garmin Nuvi for two years that I slip under the clear plastic pocket on my tank bag and it works a treat. I turned it on, on a plane recently. It showed me doing 523mph and crossing junctions like you wouldn’t believe – mint!When it comes to the XR1200 I
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