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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
sponsorship proposal I got the job doing the livery. AND WHAT WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THAT JOB?Yamaha let me loose in the wind tunnel developing a fairing for the XS1100. It was intended as an R&D exercise but ended up reached the market as the Martini Yamaha
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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
bloody helmets already this year...[#1.2]AND WHEN YOU SEE A RIDER CRASH IS YOUR FIRST THOUGHT 'BLOODY HELL I'M GOING TO HAVE TO PAINT ANOTHER' OR 'I HOPE HE'S OKAY..?'The first thought is 'I hope they are all right' but as you get a bit of a close
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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...
raced there until I was 17 then came back to the UK and have stayed ever since.You were 10 times british motocross Champion. What was the highlight?I’ve won in 125, 250, open class and supercross. The only thing I never won was four strokes because I
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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...
?I think it’s because motorcycle racing isn’t a highly enough promoted sport. People just don’t have the interest like they do in Spain and Italy. Over there you can expect 200,000 people to come through the gates at the weekend, in the UK you struggle
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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
their case is picked up by some no-win no-fee solicitor, and through preparing our case we can spend up to £200,000 in legal fees, only to have the other party realise they aren’t going to win the case and pull out. We are never going to get that money back
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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
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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
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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…
arriving within 12 hours, who’d raised £250,000 for charity and we’d already spent their money on organising the tour. As my customers were above Iran on a plane, I was on an overnight train to meet the one politician who could over-rule this corrupt copper
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