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The Professionals - John Mockett
By Visordown on 01/04/2010 12:31:41
Loved for his Sprocket cartoons and respected for his huge design back catalogue, Mr Mockett’s pen is one of the most influential in British motorcycling
everything. Similarly, although I think they’re interesting in that they force designers to actually listen to the public, focus groups only tell you about yesterday, never tomorrow. Asking non-professionals what they think a future model should look like
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The Professionals - Livia Lancelot
By Visordown on 19/10/2010 11:53:59
Livia Lancelot is Kawasaki France’s impossibly cool ladies’ motocross World Champion. She’s Europe’s only professional female MX racer...
not like this. I know this is what some people think of Parisians, but we are not all this way.When did you go professional?I went Pro just two years ago, before that I was at college. I stopped school so I could go riding every day. My parents were happy
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The Professionals: James Toseland
By Visordown on 21/03/2008 14:50:27
James Toseland is going to win a MotoGP race sometime soon, and you’d better believe it. Then he’ll go play the piano for a while...
to be professional in everything you do, and therefore risk the ‘boring’ tag?On the grid you see the James Toseland who is about as charismatic as a piece of paper, but then you watch me on the BBC and hopefully you realise there is a bit more to me. Everybody has
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The Professionals - Richard Stevens
By Visordown on 02/09/2007 14:41:50
Richard Stevens is the artist behind the mad paint designs seen on nearly every helmet in the British Superbike Championship
HOW DID YOU GET INTO PAINTING HELMETS?Completely by accident, actually! I raced Championship motocross for a few years professionally, but in 1999 I had a big accident that finished my career. It was at this time that I was introduced to Troy
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The Professionals - Rob Herring
By Visordown on 20/09/2010 15:19:29
Rob Herring is a former motocross champion turned stunt rider. He rode some of the toughest scenes in the Quantum of Solace movie...
What’s the best stunt you’ve worked on?Definitely the jump scene in Panama for Quantum of Solace. I was originally supposed to ride the bike James Bond rides, but when they came up with the idea of filming it from a bike that would make the jump as well, the only person they want...
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The Professionals - Bradley Smith
By Visordown on 07/10/2010 16:53:12
Like a racing version of Mick Hucknall, 17 year-old Bradley Smith talks about learning to drive and meeting girls...
How much pressure is there on you to win this year, especially after your practice results?Pressure from the team, nothing. Pressure from the fans, nothing. But pressure from myself, huge. I want to win races, that’s my whole desire. I don’t want to just be a runner, I want to be...
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The Professionals: Jonathan Palmer
By Visordown on 22/10/2010 11:01:24
Jonathan Palmer owns MotorsportVision and most of the racing circuits in the uk. He's very important in our little world of motorsport
EXCUSE US, BUT how did you end up owning the largest motorsport empire in the UK?I had the Palmersport business, doing corporate events at Bedford Autodrome, and was eager to expand the business but didn’t know how. Then in the middle of ’03, the Octagon circuits (Brands, Oulton ...
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The professionals: Massimo Granata
By Visordown on 01/06/2008 14:09:27
Massimo Granata, Aprilia UK’s general manager talks frankly about difficult times, spare parts, the NEW V4 and dealing with Italians
How big is Aprilia in the UK RIGHT NOW?Market share-wise we are just 3.2% of the market. We have been considerably bigger, but we’ve been through some troubled times in the last few years. So far we are up 20% up on 2007, so we’re getting closer to Triumph and BMW. In terms of ov...
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The Professionals - Garry Mackay
By Visordown on 26/08/2008 11:51:23
Garry Mackay is head salesman at DK motorcycles, the largest dealer in the country. He could sell your grandma if needed...
You work at the busiest second-hand bike dealership in the country. Just how busy is busy?Well we hold around 2,000 bikes in the showroom at any one time and retail 5,000 bikes a year, which is around 120-150 bikes a week. A record week pushes that figure closer to 170.AND What m...
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The Professionals - Simon Smith
By Visordown on 21/10/2010 16:46:04
Simon Smith of Global Enduro on corrupt coppers, giving £1million to charity and sucking warm milk from a cow’s udder…
What’s the hardest thing about maintaining a successful motorcycle travel company?The hardest thing originally was for people to have faith in us, because it was a new concept. Now it’s about keeping it unique and working very hard, as simple as that. I’m an Essex man I know life...
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