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How not to live your life: Part 3
By mark forsyth on 11/01/2011 14:39:24
Deep shame. Deep, deep shame
Third party claims are always tricky on private property but we reckon this bloke is bang to rights...
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A short film about Zen
By mark forsyth on 28/04/2011 09:53:46
Warning: strong language involving the C-word
This beautifully shot short film alludes to a phrase by Robert M Pirsig, the author of Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance: "If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind
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How not to live your life
By mark forsyth on 20/01/2011 15:08:02
Keeping your gal's knees together
, not only do they ruin the handling, but they add a heap of extra unwanted responsibility. To have one sat side-saddle beggars belief. Imagine how that feels through a rapid series of left, right, left, right bends.Still, as the ad says, you’ve gotta give
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Crazy TT vantage points: part two
By mark forsyth on 18/05/2011 14:53:19
Gorse Lea - flat out on a 600
On a 600 Supersport bike, top TT riders are using full throttle for more than 70% of a lap and Gorse Lea, a fearsome right hander just before the riders turn right at Ballacraine traffic lights, is a great example of the commitment you need to do
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Rode Safety!
By mark forsyth on 10/02/2012 11:53:47
'Methods of the experts', 1955
in 2012 is really no different.Right I'm off to put on my waders, cram a copy of the Daily Star down my front and go for a ride. What, what...
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Check out this blog site
By mark forsyth on 16/09/2010 16:52:04
French weirdness that works
. For starters, the crank rotates the wrong way to be right and they’re so long they nearly qualify for HGV road fund licencing rates.But how pretty is it? Even though it’s fundamentally wrong, it just looks so right. I suggest you check out the site…
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Kings of Cornering: Part Four
By mark forsyth on 10/08/2011 14:29:57
Rarer than a blue steak
no other bike since. Even in stock trim it made mincemeat of some of the most challenging corners in the World. The right-left-right flick down Donington’s Redgate/Hollywood/Craner/Old Hairpin is an act of utter surgical precision on an R7.Sadly the R7
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Honda VFR1200F launch: First riding impressions
By Mark Forsyth on 22/10/2009 09:11:04
Visordown's test rider fires back his first thoughts from Sugo racetrack, Japan
doesn’t feel it when you’re moving and grooving. Flicking it left/right through chicanes isn’t a major drama either.The biggest compliment I can pay the new VFR is it feels every inch a Honda. Nothing takes getting used to. Nothing feels unusual
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Carole Nash Live and kickin'
By mark forsyth on 29/11/2010 13:53:57
And packed full of people...
enough.If you're a regular to the site you've already seen all the latest bikes from out Cologne and Milan coverage, so arranged down the right are my NEC show highlights.More to follow tomorrow.
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Peel three-wheeler
By mark forsyth on 21/09/2011 15:17:31
Not normal
promptly twats the right hand gatepost within twenty feet of its start point. Is the driver pissed? Is the car that difficult to control at low speed? Maybe it's a combination of the two factors.Better still is the lurching, pitching and smoking deviation
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