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Ride Up Sand Dunes
By John Griffiths on 21/04/2010 14:15:56
John Griffiths of adventure touring firm Moto Aventures is a dune-riding guru. Here’s how to conquer mountains of sand
When you hit the sand try to get your weight back - you want the bike to plane over it like a speedboat. Change direction by moving your weight forward on the seat, pushing the bike down into the turn and gassing it. Look ahead and plan your route
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First Look: Roland Sands Aprilia 4.5 racer
By Visordown News on 21/10/2008 09:32:14
Based on Aprilia's SVX 4.5, check out this exquisite Sands road racer
Sands' Aprilia based 4.5 road racerBEAUTIFUL - absolutely beautiful.This is the Roland Sands 4.5 road racer - track bike based around the Aprilia SXV 4.5And it could go into production. Aprilia showed the bike to a group of distributors
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Roland Sands: New Blood
By Visordown News on 07/01/2010 16:29:06
Four cool videos from the US guru of custom bike design
HERE'S THE latest instalment of US bike building guru Roland Sands' New Blood video.The film, narrated by Charley Boorman, follows Sands and his day-today life, looking at the development of some of Sands' creations.It's a cool series of videos
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Sand Blade wins Le Touquet holeshot race
By Visordown News on 05/02/2008 09:34:50
Custom-built sand bruiser takes victory
WE showed you the mental FireBlade sand racer a couple of weeks ago, and the awesome grit-blaster proved its worth at the weekend’s loony Le Touquet beach endure race on Sunday by winning the event’s holeshot race.Bagging around £1000 for being
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Roland Sands glamour shoot video
By mark forsyth on 05/05/2011 11:00:34
Fun in the sun
Remember Jamie Robinson? Factory 250 Suzuki GP rider? Professional Yorkshireman?Well he's living in the States now shooting bike videos and he's just sent me this, his latest footage of a Roland Sands photo shoot.I'm sure Huddersfield gets sunsets
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Roland Sands Design teams up with Bell Helmets
By Visordown News on 11/03/2010 10:09:41
Custom bike guru edges more toward mainstream with new Bell helmet line
AMERICAN CUSTOM bike specialist Roland Sands Designs has teamed up again with Bell helmets to produce a range of striking new lids for 2010.The funky designs, and some cool riding footage, are on show in the attached video.Nice one, Rolando!
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130mph on sand: £6k and big balls needed
By Ben Cope on 30/07/2010 15:38:31
You'll be removing sand from places you didn't even know existed - for weeks..
I spotted this for sale on another website. It's not every day one of these comes up for sale. And there's probably a reason for that - not everyone needs to do 130mph on sand...Ducati 999 Testastretta Beach Racer. If 220 kph on the beach sounds
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Meet the Fireblade sand racer
By Visordown News on 24/01/2008 09:48:14
I need one in my life!
Like it?IT's madder than a bucket of spiders and about as easy to ride - this Fireblade-engined special has been built by French shop Motoland as a ball-busting beach racer. Taking part in the famous Le Touqet event, the bike is a cross between the 1000cc superbike and a CRF450 o...
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Sand Rovers: The Moroccan desert
By Oli Tennent on 09/08/2010 10:14:05
The vast Moroccan desert exerts an eerie, wholly other-worldly charm. Even for that notoriously unappreciative tourist Oli Tennent
Just across the Mediterranean – visible on a clear day from Spain – lies Morocco. And because it’s there, it must be explored. That simple.A bright yellow painted ex-army ammo truck greets me in Malaga, Redtread’s base for its tried and tested trail riding holidays. Ian (the gaff...
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Roland Sands Designs now available at Battistinis
By Visordown News on 29/02/2008 09:52:02
UK performance custom specialist teams up with top US biker builder
How beautiful is that?ROLAND SANDS DESIGNS, the company that created the stunning KR flat-tracker pictured above, are now working in partnership with UK performance custom specialists Battistinis.RSD's approach to custom bike building is all about
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