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The Designer of the KTM RC8: Gerald Kiska
By Gerald Kiska on 18/02/2008 15:47:56
From the concept drawing board to the street, Gerald Kiska sculpted the KTM RC8
“The RC8 was inspired by KTM’s off-road bikes. I tried to bring the design language that I developed for their off-road bikes to the street market. The approach was a simple one, we tried to take the elements we used in the off-road bikes and transfer them to the on-road ones. Th...
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20 Questions... John Warr
By Hariet Ridley on 22/10/2007 16:38:14
Europe's oldest Harley-Davidson dealership, Warrs, was founded by John's father Fred. The former racer and mechanic now runs the company
and clip-ons.What's was your worst bike?Honda SS50. Now you know why I lusted after an AP50!What motorcycle would you ride if money (or job!) were no object?A Harley 'Peashooter' 1920s board track racer. It would sit nicely in my collection.What's your
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The men behind the Honda CB1100
By Tom Higham on 16/01/2013 23:45:01
5 minutes with the team behind Honda's new retro bike
have on the drawing board.If you could personally create another modern retro bike from Honda's line up what would you choose?Fukunaga: My first Honda bike was the 554. A lot of the advertising around that bike had some really fun themes and so
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Where Are They Now? Kevin Magee
By Gordon Ritchie on 05/01/2011 17:07:03
The brightest young Aussie prospect ever survived hideous injury to nurture the careers of others
pack. "I've road tested for Two Wheels (Australian bike mag) for the last couple of years. I'm also a Level One coach for Motorcycling Australia, and one of the directors on the board - which means that you get blamed for everything that people don
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Manager of the KTM RC8 Department: Wolfgang Felber
By Wolfgang Felber on 18/02/2008 15:57:39
believe it still exists. The second bike was the show model. I have wanted to make the RC8 since I started at KTM. I approached the board with the idea in 2002 and asked for some small extra budget for a prototype, they said make it!We stuck
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10 minutes with... Claudio Pellizzon
By Harriet Ridley on 22/10/2007 16:25:39
With 37 years of service at Aprilia under his belt, Claudio Pellizzon has seen the company grow from a small-volume, dirt bike and scooter firm to a big player in sportsbikes. He tells TWO of the highs and lows of bike testing
particular track or stretch of road. Ever sent a bike back to the drawing board?Oh yes, plenty. When the engineers design a bike they don't always get the basics right straight away. Many times we've had to make substantial changes, for instance overhaul
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10 minutes with Steve Linsdell
By Tim Dickson on 20/04/2008 16:57:20
More than 20 years in the bike trade as owner of Flitwick Motorcycles and a veteran TT campaigner on some seriously oddball bikes, Steve Linsdell tells us how it is, was, and still could be
mainstream motorcycling, for the non-enthusiast, could grow. Perhaps we should get 'Flitwick Fred' out again. In the early 90s we had this big board on the back of a bike which said, 'I pass queues, I park free, I have fun. Why don't you?' We'd send people
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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
down-turn already and now we’re at another, but it’s the same for business right across the board at the moment so I’m in no better or worse shape than anyone else. It’s a bit like racing, to be honest.You take a risk at every race, you can never
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Interview: Jonathan Rea
By Robin Goodwin on 23/03/2011 10:27:29
Taking time out from giving guided tours around the Isle of Man Rea talks about the 130mph crash, what his Fireblade would be like from a blank sheet and the character of Biaggi
with points on the board, a 12th and a fourth wasn’t the best way to start but after the week before it was basically all that we could ask. 24 hrs before free practice time I was lying in hospital and I was pretty lucky to be honest, I guess, just getting out
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John McGuinness on his annoying neighbour and packing in the TT
By Visordown on 03/08/2010 16:39:29
Former King of the Mountain with 15 Isle Of Man TT wins to his name, John McGuinness, takes Visordown for a ride in a motorhome... so, some words from the ‘Morecambe Missile’
to the island in ’82 when I was ten, to watch my Dad racing at Jurby. I remember crying on the boat on the way home because I didn’t want to leave. The old ferry was a side loader and I used to hide behind cars that were paying to board and ride on beside
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