You know the saying, 'you're better born lucky than rich'? Well that could've been applied to the mag this month. I got the call from Urry asking would I go on a road test to Wales the week before Chrimbo. Now, I'm in full support of TWO's policy of riding the bikes in real world...

. My website guy Kingy looked at the pictures and e-mailed a possible caption to me: "James Whitham, doing his impression of Lord Charles".The aforesaid Lord was a ventriloquist's dummy in an act that used to be on TV, and if you know the one I mean you

's the industrial version of an MOT) at two tonnes. But as a trailer it could take four tonnes without a problem. The road leading down to our place and up to the quarry is unclassified, but still public road. It's narrow, with banks on each side and then a wall

's the industrial version of an MOT) at two tonnes. But as a trailer it could take four tonnes without a problem. The road leading down to our place and up to the quarry is unclassified, but still public road. It's narrow, with banks on each side and then a wall

of stuff you see in people's kitchens and living rooms. What Foggy had done was to buy shelves - like for your living room - and put woodscrews into the walls of the thing to hold them up. These were sticking so far out the other side of the panel you could

motocross, monster trucks, a wall of death, stunt cyclists etc. There was a 'ride-in' of Harleys and I was asked to judge the best bike from the 250 who turned out. Great, I love most things with two wheels and an engine, but I don't know anything about

for it but this place was different. Every wall was covered with bright pictures and everyone we spoke to were upbeat and positive. It was hard to believe most of them wouldn't be around much longer. It makes all your problems seem trivial. The evening was a sell out

, uphill, fairly rocky walled track. He was looking good for 100 yards then his bike fish-tailed a couple of times and threw him over the bars. He leapt to his feet like a wounded cat but within a couple of seconds he'd fallen over again. His eyes looked

's new horsebox, as has been mentioned in the column before, has been newly painted. We were coming to a bit of narrow road I knew were going to be tricky, so I said to her, "here, I'll drive it through here." Only went and scraped it on the wall though

party on wheels! But saying that there were more people on the pit wall than there were for us two racers testing properly! But it was a nice little reward for the boys who have worked so hard. We went snowboarding over New Year and up to two days