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Paul Denning - Interview
By Visordown on 30/06/2010 09:35:17
Suzuki MotoGP team manager and Crescent boss Paul Denning talks Moto2, the purity of 990 GP bikes without traction control and why Capirossi is special
catalyst in that. Nobody knew that when we put an 800cc engine in we’d go half a second quicker around Valencia in the first test, or that now that the power outputs have caught up, you’ve got increased agility and just as much performance in a package that
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Vicky Butler-Henderson
By Visordown on 26/10/2001 16:18:01
Speed and Fifth Gear's Vicki Butler-Henderson seem somewhat impossible to separate.
managed to squeeze our interview in for a few hours on her one day off, before she drove away up North (obviously at 200mph) to test a load of bikes for Top Gear. Yes indeed, having tested every modern car to hell and back, Miss Henderson is now having a
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James May on bikes, Top Gear and curry
By Visordown on 29/07/2010 09:18:34
He’s the one off Top Gear on the telly who’s neither a reactionary middle-England mouthpiece or a clinical study in expensive orthodontic treatments. He is James May
five-day course and passed my test in my thirties.I had a Kawasaki 80 off-road bike as a kid That’s where I cut my teeth. When I was a bit older I had a mate in San Fransisco who had a KH400 and a Bultaco – which I rode about on totally illegally. I had
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BMW's Christian Landerl interview
By Visordown on 07/04/2010 11:21:57
BMW new model guru Dr (he’s a real doctor) Christian Landerl on building a world-beatingsuperbike, why a 600cc version is inevitable and why the Nürburgring is in his blood...
favourite runs!”WE NO LONGER SPEED TEST ON THE AUTOBAHN“It’s been a long time since we last used public roads like the autobahn for high-speed testing. We much prefer to use our own test areas and racetracks for these purposes.”ISN’T EVERYONE A NÜRBURGRING
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The Interview - Christian Landerl
By Visordown on 20/09/2010 11:42:43
BMW new model guru Dr (he’s a real doctor) Christian Landerl on building a world-beating superbike, why a 600cc version is inevitable and why the Nürburgring is in his blood...
SECRET“I am from Austria and the roads in the Austrian Alps are the most beautiful in Central Europe. They are easy to reach from Munich but I would rather not reveal which are my favourite runs!”WE NO LONGER SPEED TEST ON THE AUTOBAHN“It’s been a long
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The Professionals - Ruben Xaus
By Visordown on 24/09/2009 17:10:56
Ruben Xaus, the wild Spaniard of WSB, has turned his back on Ducati and signed with BMW. He knows now what it takes to win a race, he says...
ARE THINGS SHAPING UP SO FAR?We have only tested the bikes once, but I know what I need from the bike to win. It’s not a single lap that makes a difference, it’s how you can ride a 25-lap race. You can be the fastest guy in qualifying, but not win the race
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David Knight - Interview
By Visordown on 28/07/2010 09:44:27
Twice World Enduro Champion David Knight on Teutonic over-engineering, going green, racing in the States and his boyhood dream of one day competing at the Isle of Man TT
The BMW ride didn’t work out how I thought it wouldTesting went well and we had good people on the team but when it came to racing it was a complete disaster. We thought we could turn it around, and I thought that I was there to develop the bike
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Interview: Valentino Rossi
By Visordown on 22/05/2012 16:26:00
Valentino Rossi answers the fans' questions at Le Mans
At the Grand Prix de France at Le Mans, Valentino Rossi participated in a Monster Energy interview with MotoGP commentator Gavin Emmett to answer questions sent in by fans. He revealed his thoughts on recent developments, whether he can win
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Jeremy Burgess interview
By Visordown on 26/05/2010 15:09:43
Jeremy Burgess is Valentino Rossi's crew chief at Fiat Yamaha. Nobody knows more about what it takes to win a Grand Prix
to get to that point? From the first test we had at Spain at the end of '99 I could see the only limiting factor would be us as a team. Valentino had come from a winning team on an Italian bike with Italian mechanics, and had left that to go a Japanese
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Michael Collins - Busted for doing 125mph
By Visordown on 20/09/2010 15:40:13
Michael Collins made the national news after being filmed riding his bike at speeds of up to 125mph on his way to work. This is his version of events...
I’m 22 years old and I’m a criminal. I did my bike test when I was 17 but my licence started getting fragile, so I went racing. I spent three years winning races at MRO level, set some lap records and broke some bones. I enjoyed it but it got too
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