. On the pig I could take it in third, no problem.The engine note is so different it was hard to know when to change gear. Both motors top out at 13,000 rpm but on the screamer you could feel all those revs. On the Pig you'd think it was only revving at half

earlier - and I would have been the most unpopular TT winner of all time!"Mike was canny too. I remember back in the 60s when Gary Hocking and Mike were team-mates at MV. Gary had spent all practice with Girling creating what was the first hydraulic

With increasing numbers of highly sensitive documents surfacing after the 50 year decay of classified material, an episode hushed up by the security services in 1931 can at last be brought into the public domain.The International Six Days Trial

staggering 1.410 seconds from his previous best. He set a new qualifying record at 1m58.758s - a vast 1.145 seconds faster than Gibernau, his closest Honda rival.But wasn't it a gamble to wait until so late in the session to produce the super-lap? "I

was packed, the weather was warm and Hailwood rode to a fairy-tale win in the F1 race... turning 200,000 grown men into blubbering kids... and it’s what made me want to race bikes.This was Suzuki GB’s team in the then annual GSX-R Cup, Hockenheim, 1991 – Dave

their legs and a truck full of broken rotary engines. Norton's Stuart Garner is either a glutton for punishment, a fool or a very determined man. Or all three. Because he's promised to be back in 2012, this time running a 1,000cc V4-engined bike. In what

to racing all the time.You were in a coma once for three days in 1997 after a crash. Don't you worry about hurting yourself? I never worry about crashing and hurting myself. I stopped counting when I reached 100 crashes and I've broken a few bones in my body

towards the Drakensberg range, climbing to nearly 10,000 feet before passing through game reserves as you cross Lesotho. From there you'll traverse the rugged Transkai region before swinging east towards the Wild Coast where game animals roam the plains

the best of qualifying sessions. Last year, after a swap to Bridgestone tyres, John Hopkins was 16th, Kenny Roberts 18th - a marginal improvement on 2003's 17th and 19th.Contrast this with the success of the GSX-R series in every single class it competed in

for some time. Reynolds hasn't been fully fit for more than a year since breaking his leg testing before the 2005 season. Since then, he's spent seven weeks in hospital and the best part of a year recuperating. "I was lying in hospital when I decided