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Icon: Barry from Auf Widersehen Pet
By Stuart Barker on 17/09/2010 16:57:21
Cool For Being Uncool - He was unlucky, fat and ugly with a thick Brum accent - an unlikely hero
It would be hard to think of a less fitting hero than Barry from Auf Wiedersehen Pet, but heroes come in many guises, and when it comes to a biker making punters laugh, Barry is second only to the great George Formby.For those too young to remember, Auf Wiedersehen Pet was one...
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Hipsters: How not to live your life
By mark forsyth on 07/02/2011 15:38:54
The embarrassing world of trying to be cool
I have to start this piece by stating that I'm not from London. I may work here but I grew up in a remote North Western market town where people were (rightly) suspicious of anything or anybody new. Back to London. There's a massive two wheeled thing happening at the moment. Hips...
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Help settle an argument
By Robin Goodwin on 08/02/2012 11:04:21
Is the Honda Big Ruckus cool?
I'm happy to admit that I'm a little bit different; I believe that brown is an underused colour in motorcycling and we need to move on from custom café racers and introduce a dustbin fairing craze - you know I'm right.So, as Ben Cope - known around the Visordown office for being ...
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Least cool bikes of the Milan show
By Ben Cope on 09/11/2011 11:06:11
Polish can make a bad bike glisten but it can't make it cool
I love two wheels but even I have to draw the line somewhere. This custom might be someone's cup of tea but try as I might, I can't see where you'd get an ounce of fun from riding it. Maybe a decent paint job might make it less offensive. Good luck encountering any speed bumps..J...
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DCT: Clutchless Pants?
By mark forsyth on 09/07/2012 14:07:24
No, it's mint, actually
high for most, though.The strange farty sound from the exhaust tailpipe on up-shifts is really popular with pillions, too.That’s cool farty as opposed to un-cool farty.It’s only a noise that a big-bore, growly V-4 that changes up a gear in five
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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.
of body armour and Dainese padding on. It's not the done thing, but I decided early on that I would rather have a helmet on. Half the other lads brought a helmet as well so we looked uncool on the lifts, but had less of a risk of eating New Year's dinner
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