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Niall Mackenzie Column - Sep 10
By Niall Mackenzie on 02/08/2010 13:25:26
As Visordown (the magazine) is now only www, this grizzled old boy must face a new digital future on the world wide web. This online-distributed column was a Niall Mackenzie production
) but more because it was only us that could see the funny side of his Yorkshire loudness. Being ‘inspired to ride’ I’ve been drenched in the north of Scotland (who hasn’t?) and fried in the south of Spain. I’ve ridden to Croyde Bay in Devon on an FZ1 to try
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KTM RC8R vs. Corby Glen
By Ben Cope on 04/11/2010 11:46:22
Highway to Heaven: Six bikes, six roads, six twats, six stories. Ben Cope knows the score. But not even the supreme skills of ace lensman Paul Bryant could make this internet millionaire look any good
to spare for a pilgrimage to bow down to a ribbon of tarmac in a far away corner of the land.I’ve ridden some beautiful roads around the UK, in locations like North Wales, The Lakes, Scotland and Devon, but the problem with these picture postcard roads
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Devon Help Us - 2003 Tourer Test
By Jon Urry on 05/11/2003 13:43:43
The sorry tale of taking three express tourers to the land of eternal rain and mist in an attempt to find a ray of sunshine
was beautiful. Mum told me dad was wandering around the garden without a shirt on in his shorts and sandals (maybe Scotland wasn't such a bad idea after all!). What could go wrong?Stopping at the first service station just before Bristol things seemed
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Used Test: Manx Norton
By Niall Mackenzie on 26/12/2006 12:17:02
Niall has revisited the Goodwood Revival, looking to improve on his initiation with the Manx Norton
Scotland lost a true hero when the great Bob McIntyre was killed at Oulton Park in 1962. At the time I was only one year old so I never saw the man race. However, I was fortunate to spend my teen years around a man that did.Pim Fleming, from
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Moped Endurance
By Mark Forsyth on 26/10/2010 13:35:58
Step aside MotoGP, cheap-as-chips supermoto moped endurance racing is about to hit the big time. Mark Forsyth took a real racer and factory mechanic to the job - and still didn't win
racing'), Jockass (they're from Scotland dontchaknow), 50 Bent etc.The day starts with practice, which sees the three-quarters Tarmac, quarter dirt track littered with K+N filters, exhaust downpipes, jubilee clips, airboxes and prosthetic limbs. Then it
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Buyer Guide: Ducati 999 & 749
By Visordown on 12/10/2010 15:57:06
Everything you need to know about running the Ducati 749 and 999 from actual owners
on that and it’s been fantastic. It’s beautiful to ride, you really feel at one with it. I’m about 5’11” and I find it perfectly comfortable over a four-day tour of Scotland. I adjusted the footpeg position and the bars slightly which helped. I can’t praise
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Road Test: CB1300 v ZRX1200R v GSX1400 v XJR1300
By Niall Mackenzie & Jon Urry on 24/04/2008 19:22:39
Niall, James, Daryll and Jon venture north to celebrate Burns' night, eat Haggis and drink whisky. "They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom"
, and more importantly its heater, is starting to look like a tempting prospect.A quick check of Teletext reveals that the snow isn't actually falling near our route and the temperature is a virtually tropical (for Scotland in January) 7¡ above zero. Excuses
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Jamie Whitham Column - Jul 2002
By Jamie Whitham on 01/07/2002 12:39:25
Surviving on ready meals; Jamie finds out what it's like to be home alone
? Andrea's away in Scotland with my sister, at some kind of horsey do this weekend, and although I've been away from her loads of times, testing, whatever, I really can't think of any occasion where I've been here and Andrea's been away. Not ever. It
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Chalk & Cheese, Niall & Whit, Triumph Street Triple R & BMW F800R
By Niall Mackenzie on 21/07/2010 15:55:36
Triumph’s riotous Street Triple R is the benchmark middleweight street bike, a bike so alive with character it’s arrival left big street bikes looking a little redundant. How does BMW’s new F800R compare?
-series fan so any BMW with a chain and a normal indicator switch is a result in my book. Yes, it does have heated grips, but then so should every new bike. Especially if it lives in Scotland.The brief was for James and I to have some fun with these Rs
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Jamie Whitham Column - Jul 03
By Jamie Whitham on 01/07/2003 11:55:50
The collection of Whitham/Speedfreak machines has grown recently, and now includes some 600cc racebikes, ones that we can rent out to people who don't want to bash up their own roadbikes if they crash.
of fuel into it anyway, and it started second kick. Bing-ba-bing-ba-bing - off it went. So we're definitely going on a shitty old two-stroke bike run this summer, to Scotland probably, about five or six of us up for it.I'm going to take my LC, because
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