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Jamie Whitham Column - Sep 2007
By Jamie Whitham on 01/09/2007 16:46:05
James attempts to kick start World War III with a bit of drain pipe, hair spray and a bag of spuds as Huddersfield's answer to Rambo takes on the German hoards. Achtung, Spitfire!
's race number of 52 has been allocated box number 73. I carry 40 litres of fuel up to the pits. And I proceed to pour it all into the filler of box number 52! I never even realised until a Dutch guy climbed up onto the gantry, took the top off 'my
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Jamie Whitham Column - Nov 2006
By Jamie Whitham on 01/11/2006 12:24:29
What is it about Whit and old bikes? The man clearly lives for them. And this month James is revelling in the joy of two-strokes - remember them?
them out of the box. Remarkable. Golden Oldies EVEN OLD BIKES sometimes refuse to die. About 10 years ago I bought a Suzuki X7 with the intention of restoring it at some point. For various reasons (family commitments, incompetence, and general laziness
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James Whitham Column - Feb 2008
By James Whitham on 15/02/2008 12:51:37
Another busy month in the Whitham mansions. He mourns the passing of his first jump-bike and the best jumper, and recounts an hilarious night in the company of the Fogartys
of his Austin Maxi. We leapt that poor bike, front basket and all, over everything, milk crates, mates laid down side by side, even a couple of burning cardboard boxes on one occasion. We even did the dummy run and stopped at the top of the ramp to get
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James Whitham Column - Feb 08
By James Whitham on 17/02/2008 16:12:54
Another busy month in the Whitham mansions. He mourns the passing of his first jump-bike and the best jumper, and recounts an hilarious night in the company of the Fogartys
of his Austin Maxi. We leapt that poor bike, front basket and all, over everything, milk crates, mates laid down side by side, even a couple of burning cardboard boxes on one occasion. We even did the dummy run and stopped at the top of the ramp to get
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Jamie Whitham Column - Aug 03
By Jamie Whitham on 01/08/2003 12:06:57
, Mad Sunday. We had been trail riding on the inside of the course and we ended up coming up the Millennium Way and coming onto the course at Mountain Box, about four miles before the Bungalow. So we had to stop and go on the course itself before finding
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Jamie Whitham Column - Mar 2002
By Jamie Whitham on 01/03/2002 13:04:56
Knocking yourself out snowboarding and beating everyone else at Trivial Pursuit. It's easy.
present. Sure enough, behind all Andrea's horse blankets and stuff there was this pretty big cardboard box, maybe not the size of chest freezer but big all the same. Huge it were. So we had a hell of a job getting it in from the garage, giggling
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Jamie Whitham Column - Sep 2001
By Jamie Whitham on 01/09/2001 14:20:08
GPs are going to lose two-strokes and Foggy celebrates his 36th (40th!) birthday
around the long, curving right hander and I felt that I was about to be spat right over the top. But it didn't, it just slid away and spun me out like I was on the magic roundabout. I probably waited for a bit more room than I should have done
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