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On patrol with the Met police
By John Cantlie on 07/04/2010 13:36:27
Traffic police; possibly the most feared and misunderstood creatures on the roads of Britain. Visordown went on patrol with the Metropolitan division to find out what it really means to be a traffic cop
I used to hate traffic cops. When I was an angry young test-rider 10 years ago, I rode everything flatout. That was my job, after all. Unfortunately for me it was also the job of the traffic police to stop me – quite rightly, as it happened – and we
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Indian Takeaway - Enduro India
By John Cantlie on 29/06/2005 12:46:44
If you need a break from the drudgery of working life, if you want to ride a bike in a place where traffic laws are non-existent and you can do pretty much whatever you want, well, you need to go to India
frowned upon and little heed is paid to which side of the road is used and for what direction. It's like they all passed their test at the post-apocalyptic school for Mad Max motoring.Given that some Enduro India participants only passed their bike tests
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Secret Policeman's Ball
By John Cantlie on 19/12/2008 13:55:04
Every year in May, 120 policemen from all round Europe gather in Belgium for a race that no journalist has attended in 35 years. It’s thrilling and it’s fast, and this year were invited along for the ride...
and more road-orientated, while the 510 uses the new DOHC engine and is a closed-course supermoto specialist. A full 12 hour’s racing around 170 miles of Belgian road would be a brutal test of the two new motos.The Met have themselves nicely squared away
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Scar Tissue: Crusty Demons of Dirt
By John Cantlie on 01/12/2010 14:47:03
15 years ago when VHS ruled the world, a team of renegade dirt racers were inventing impossible new tricks that changed biking forever. They rode hard, crashed like hell and got it all down on film. They were the Crusty Demons of Dirt…
couldn’t believe my eyes, 60 minutes of jaw-dropping riding action shot in exotic locations and set to a blasting dirt-rock soundtrack. I was road test editor on SuperBike magazine at the time and thought I was pretty shit-hot on a bike
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