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The Professionals: Tim Maccabee - Ducati UK Managing Director
By Visordown on 20/10/2007 12:50:07
He's the man who's in charge of Ducati's UK day-to-day operations, so what's it like dealing with the Italians?
is the company?The major shareholder is an Italian company called Invest Industrial, and the company is much stronger now. All the things that we invested on during the tough times started to come to fruition last year. We had been investing heavily in product
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Boss of KTM on their electric future
By Visordown on 03/08/2010 16:07:27
He’s very powerful, concerned about the future of KTM and very upbeat about bikes. Especially electric ones.
the latest versions of our zero emission sports motorcycle project at the Tokyo motorcycle show last monthOne off-road version which is not that far away from a serial production and one interpretation for e-drive street riding in the nearer future. The KTM
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BMW's Christian Landerl interview
By Visordown on 07/04/2010 11:21:57
BMW new model guru Dr (he’s a real doctor) Christian Landerl on building a world-beatingsuperbike, why a 600cc version is inevitable and why the Nürburgring is in his blood...
us.”WORLD SUPERBIKE RACING IS ABOUT THE BIKES; MOTOGP IS NEARLY ALL ABOUT THE RIDERS“As part of our long-term product strategy, we decided a few years ago to enter the superbike segment with the S1000RR. Viewed against this background, it only made
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The Interview - Christian Landerl
By Visordown on 20/09/2010 11:42:43
BMW new model guru Dr (he’s a real doctor) Christian Landerl on building a world-beating superbike, why a 600cc version is inevitable and why the Nürburgring is in his blood...
ALL ABOUT THE RIDERS“As part of our long-term product strategy, we decided a few years ago to enter the superbike segment with the S1000RR. Viewed against this background, it only made sense that we should decide to concentrate on taking part
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The Professionals - John Mockett
By Visordown on 01/04/2010 12:31:41
Loved for his Sprocket cartoons and respected for his huge design back catalogue, Mr Mockett’s pen is one of the most influential in British motorcycling
involved in the Hesketh project. Unfortunately we didn’t have any of their engineers, which was a problem, but more importantly we were really lacking in finance as well. That said I did learn an awful lot about production, which undoubtedly helped with my
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First Person: Roger Simmons, Suzuki GB
By Visordown on 20/10/2010 13:04:22
He knows his way around a swear word or two, he's Suzuki GB's head mechanic and former European development rider from 1982 to 2005.
him didn't care, to them it was just a production delay and it was painful to deal with.Sometimes people died on bikes I prepared. It was always weird getting wrecks back that you knew riders had hurt themselves on, and sometimes those riders were
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Paul Bonhomme - Red Bull Air Race pilot
By Visordown on 21/10/2010 12:09:49
Paul Bonhomme is a Red Bull Air Race pilot, rides a KTM 450 Supermoto for fun and flies a Boeing 747 around the globe for a living
and the footpeg went straight through his ankle. It was disgusting, and that image stuck with me, so I prefer sticking to muddy fields where you hurt yourself less.Air-racing is quite similar to production bike racing in that the guy that's going to do well
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The professionals: Massimo Granata
By Visordown on 01/06/2008 14:09:27
Massimo Granata, Aprilia UK’s general manager talks frankly about difficult times, spare parts, the NEW V4 and dealing with Italians
that you can spend eight hours going one direction then someone can come in with an idea in the last 15 minutes and the previous eight hours are forgotten. It’s unpredictable, but that produces an exciting product, not a dry one.Tell us about one ‘typical
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Ariel Owner – Simon Saunders
By Visordown on 18/02/2008 11:32:56
Simon Saunders is the man behind the bike-beating Ariel Atom, and is now trying to resurrect the Ariel motorcycle name...
be is the most difficult question. Once we can figure that out, we can work backwards towards production. As a low volume producer, we should be producing what the big boys don’t. If you compare the bike industry to the car industry, both Marcos and TVR have gone
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Ferry Brouwer - The founder of Arai Europe
By Visordown on 21/10/2010 17:17:04
If you wear an AraI helmet it’s thanks to thIs guy. Ferry Brouwer Is the founder of AraI Europe. He’s also Dutch and a lIttle odd...
to buy the right helmet?Time will tell. What I know is that in general people will buy products if they definitely know they are getting value for money. Some expensive helmets represent fantastic value for money and some cheap helmets don’t represent
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