Speedway is mad, no question.Ice speedway is madder but Japanese speedway must be the maddest. The riders have to be quarantined during a race meeting to stop anyone 'fixing' them. Their handlebars are bent from new. And the millions of yen

You've got to admire the builder and driver of this GSX-R1000-engined Fiat 600.It may not be easy grafting one engine from one vehicle into another but it's even harder, once you've managed it, to make it stop, turn grip and handle like this car

him push-start makes you wince just imagining the pain he must have been in.That in itself is an amazing story of bravery and determination which has been an integral feature of Duff's life story - particularly in later life.  In 1967 he stopped

the speed trap at 174mph. I saw the end of the runway, thought I couldn't stop and - not to put a too finer point on it - shat my pants and grabbed a big handful of front brake lever.I remember sliding and getting very, very hot. As I waited to slam

. To be honest, it usually goes straight in the bin but, I’m glad to say, this time I decided to open it.I flicked through the content from back to front and stopped at a feature called ‘ a kick up the eighties’ written by Jeff Stone. The layout was what stopped

track is a spiritual experience if you approach it as a never ending learning curve. You will never stop learning. Never stop honing that crucial accuracy, delicacy, smoothness and pin-point precision.It’s official. Bikes are brilliant.If you fancy

it delivers low down – from 3500 to 4000rpm. At Mallory this is where the revs find themselves as you flick left/right through Edwinas and the Bus Stop making it very hard to handle when you want to squeeze on the gas gradually and progressively.And then there

three times sidecar World Champion with Steve Webster) for a chat.I asked him what he really wanted people to know about the new Diavel. 'First and foremost it's a Ducati through and through - even though it's a cruiser style bike it still handles, stops

bursts a tyre on the inside lane and forces the car in the middle lane to swerve violently into the side of the car in front of me. My route ahead will suddenly be blocked by spinning cars and broken glass. I can't take avoidance, I have to stop

but notice, the lock-stops, though.Just a piece of threaded 8mm bar with a flanged lock-nut, the threaded end of which had already battered the paint off the frame from just a couple of full-lock turns and just a few hundred miles To give them the benefit