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Altitude Sickness - Tackling Pikes Peak
By John Cantlie on 29/06/2010 15:27:47
There is a race twelve miles long, with 156 flat-out bends on a mix of tarmac and dirt. on any one of those corners, running off the track means plunging over a cliff and hitting rocks. We tackle the legendary Pikes Peak hillclimb
by John Pierce, ex-racer and a resident of Nashville, Tennessee, riding an Aprilia SXV550. The 70bhp V-twins sounded amazing on their open race pipes; my KTM was just loud. Our three-man squad looked the bollocks: bikes all stickered up with sponsor
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Pikes Peak Blog
By John Cantlie on 17/07/2009 16:27:44
Early starts and first runs
complex, hideously expensive gigs like this. Landers is joined by John Pierce, also on an Aprilia, who drove our motorhome all the way up from Nashville, Tennessee. John is so laid-back he’s horizontal, he farts like a Northerner and is permanently glued
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Jet and Rent: Mexico by motorcycle
By John Cantlie on 21/10/2010 16:33:13
Want to see Mexico by motorcycle. Well it's easy, really it is. We did it
MEXICOName: John CantlieBike hired: 2003 BMW GS650Miles covered: 2,048Total cost: £1,112Pros: Undiscovered country, amazing roads, perfect weather, beaches, food, beerCons: Huge distances involvedAdventure rating: Very highRight now I’m in Mexico
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Reach for the sky - Whitham's Tornado ride
By John Cantlie on 10/04/2002 17:01:29
Whitham reduced to a whimpering pile of vomit and fear after one hour in the back seat of a Tornado GR4 fighter-bomber
. All it takes is a bit of application in your early twenties, and five years later (so long as your arms aren't too short, your legs aren't too long, you have a brain which can process 27 mental problems in .02 of a second and can drop a laser
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