AMERICAN CAR giant General Motors has said that it is looking at making a very-cheap car using motorcycle parts. A senior executive for the company said that the idea is the latest bid by the firm to meet demand in emerging markets. Carmakers have

TYCO Honda and Tommy Bridewell have jointly announced that with immediate effect, they have parted company and Tommy will no longer ride for the team in the 2011 MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship.After a promising start which included

TAKE THE smallest and least practical vehicle available in an entire continent and throw it at some of the most ridiculous and least hospitable terrain on our good earth - that's the aim of the Mototaxi Junket.From the driest desert in the world, to the most dangerous road in the...

Picked up our Ford Ranger Wildtrak pickup last week. She’s massive, blue and bestowed with a three-litre turbo diesel engine that’s so torquey you can set off in first gear with no throttle at all. Going to be perfect for humping bikes and people and gear around, that’s fo’ sho’....

Been ‘modifyin' the Ranger this weekend, as those Max Power toss-pot types would say. But I haven’t fitted a four-inch diameter penis-substitute tailpipe. No, I’ve made the pick up bed more useful. It had a roller shutter cover on the back, which is great when you want to lock aw...

Clocked over five thousand miles in the Ranger, lugging bikes to track events, back to importers and dealers, that sort of thing. It’s freeing up, especially the suspension. I can drink a cup of coffee now without inhaling it. The engine’s quieter and freer revving now, too.We ha...

in the programme to see who number 95 was. His name, it turned out was Rory Thompson who hailed from Glasgow... the Glasgow part was scary enough, but his occupation was listed as ‘door to door butcher and part-time debt collector’... When he came seeking me I

Took Rieju’s little sports 50 (£2499) to Whilton Mill kart track near Daventry the other day. Didn’t even need the ramp to load it in – such are the delights of 50cc bikes.Got my resident stunt monkey to test it out round the track but things were a bit hampered by a stubborn gea...

Fantastic. It’s raining.Not only are the Dunlop Sportmax tyres on my VFR 1200 in their element in these snotty, normally treacherous conditions (they steam at the end of a ride - how cool is that?) but our long term Ford Ranger pick-up has become a new source of joy and entertain...

Kirkistown, Northern Ireland, early 1988. I love motorbikes me... ’80s hair worth a mention.Me, Andrea and Scott Russell at the WSB end of season party, Hard rock Café, Sentul, Indonesia, 1997. I suspect we’d had a drink or two at this point. Later the biggest food-fight ever in ...