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Frank 'Ponch' Poncherello - CHiPs
By Stuart Barker on 16/09/2010 14:37:29
Everyone loves a pull with Ponch. He even kept junk food in a little plastic lunchbox in his pannier
to make a TV movie called CHiPs '99. The serial franchise was so successful that you could buy CHiPs bicycle sirens, action figures and bikes, helmets and lunchboxes.Estrada, who still keeps two real CHiPs bikes in his living room has appeared in scores
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Who the Hell is Niall Mackenzie?
By Stuart Barker on 02/08/2010 11:29:31
Niall went from digging holes for the council to being Freddie Spencer’s team mate in five years. In his GP career he scored seven podiums and 28 top-fives. And after 10 years in Grand Prix he returned to the UK and won three consecutive BSB titles
are supposed to come from. In such a rural Scottish location, even if you are good at something, you're not supposed to boast about it. That'd be a certain shortcut to a good shoeing. His introduction to two wheels was very much in keeping with his humble
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Bike Icon: Honda VFR750R RC30
By Stuart Barker on 30/09/2010 14:32:10
Handbuilt in Japan by HRC and available to Fogarty, Hislop and Joe Bloggs, the RC30 was, and is, a little bit special
's worth at the TT and Foggy actually won his first world championship on one as he wrestled the 1988 Formula 1 world crown from Dunlop, then retained it in 1989. The first two World Superbike championships were won by RC30s in the hands of flyin' Fred
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Burt Munro's Speed Obsession
By Stuart Barker on 10/09/2010 14:16:16
From a small shed in a small town in a small country at the very bottom of the world came an old man and an old bike - to capture the most remarkable world speed record ever
foot-operated clutch. It had no rear suspension, and only two inches of travel at the front. To this day, the bike has been referred to as a 1920 model (Burt even had this painted on the bodywork) but John Munro can now correct this universal
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The Cult of the Fieldbike
By Stuart Barker on 19/11/2010 15:12:40
An empty field and a beaten-up moped. It's how most of us first began our love affair with biking and a rite of passage we will never forget
of an engine, the thrill of moving without having to peddle, the first bite of drum brakes. Hell, if you were really lucky, the first ever gear change on anything other than the Raleigh Grifter you'd been honing your two-wheeled skills on in preparation
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The trials & tribulations of Foggy Petronas
By Stuart Barker on 09/01/2008 14:57:49
At the end of this season Team Foggy Petronas will be no more. After five years the team still hasn't won a WSB race and the FP1 road bike has yet to go on general sale. So what went wrong?
engineering skills." In a column for TWO in March 2002, Foggy also confessed that he had major concerns about the FP1's engine. "I'm 100% confident that everything else will be alright but the engine - I don't know."It was an uncanny insight into what would
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Lucky Stars - Superstitious racers
By Stuart Barker on 15/05/2009 14:48:43
Rossi, Foggy, Sheene - In this age of space technology, it's comforting to know that bike racers are a desperately superstitious bunch
championship followed as did victory in the Albacete round of WSB - all while wearing the same green vest. If Foggy wasn't superstitious before, he was now.Over the next eight years, he won 59 WSB races and wore the vest for 57 of them. On the two occasions he
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Field of Dreams
By Stuart Barker on 22/10/2007 15:24:09
An empty field and a beaten-up moped. It's how most of us first began our love affair with biking and a rite of passage we will never forget. TWO celebrates the cult of the fieldbike
of an engine, the thrill of moving without having to peddle, the first bite of drum brakes. Hell, if you were really lucky, the first ever gear change on anything other than the Raleigh Grifter you'd been honing your two-wheeled skills on in preparation
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I Love The 90s
By Stuart Barker on 04/11/2010 09:39:01
Choose a FireBlade. Choose a Ducati 916. Choose born-again bikers, track days, Mick Doohan and Carl Fogarty. Choose the 1990s.
to their peril. But they're still bums on two wheeled seats so let's live and let live shall we? After all, we could be the born-agains of the next decade, right?One way the old boys could have honed their rusty skills was to take part in one of the millions
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