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Highland Fling
By Jon Urry on 12/10/2007 12:23:42
Niall, James, Daryll and Jon venture north to celebrate Burns' night, eat Haggis and drink whisky. "They fought like Scotsmen. And won their freedom"
The faint, but distinctive waft of rebellion is in the air. It's 8am, Niall, Daryll and myself are at James Whitham's house and outside looks cold. Very cold. The thought of the 250-mile ride from Huddersfield to Edinburgh on naked bikes is becoming
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Living with a 2001 Yamaha YZF-R6
By Warren Pole on 26/10/2001 15:15:14
Warren Pole was a product of the Superbike generation. Warren was Wozza to many and a pole to all
planned. After all, the only sensible course of action now is to comprehensively go to town on it and resurrect the wreckage as a full-on Jamie Whitham World Supersport replica.Knowing how useless I am with spanners, I have entrusted the guardianship
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Team Hates: Eight intense team-mate rivalries
By Bertie Simmonds on 11/11/2010 11:36:45
It's a rule of thumb in racing that you have to beat your team-mate. And to beat him, you must employ every method at your disposal. Delve into the world of when the team-mate system goes wrong
.) He's also managed some of the world's finest (Niall Mackenzie, Chris Walker, Jamie Whitham, Steve Hislop and Simon Crafar) in the most successful British Superbike squad in history - Yamaha. "It's generally the sponsor who demands two good riders
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Every new motorcycle available with ABS
By Visordown on 16/11/2011 14:45:41
List of all the 2011 motorcycles that you can buy today that come equipped with ABS or as an optional extra
Diversion F: ReviewXJ6 ABS: ReviewOf course, you don't need ABS but those that have used it, tend to feel naked without it. Check out our 5-step guide to better motorcycle braking and former GP racer James Whitham's guide to improved motorcycle braking
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Motorcycle Radar: 1991
By Roland Brown on 25/11/2010 14:48:24
Hang on, new Triumphs, forkless Bimotas? It had to be the 90s
Yamaha, and a young fella named Jamie Whitham won the MCN TT/Superbike Challenge on a GSX-R. Whitham is of course still very much around but sadly the same can’t be said of Steve Hislop, who dominated the TT with three wins.Harley StyleHarley could have
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Visordown versus Karl Harris
By John Hogan on 29/11/2009 12:12:24
John Hogan takes on Karl Harris in a fight. Excellent
others. This year I’m working with a cracking bunch of blokes and I couldn’t be happier. And if I’m happy, then the results should come.Fresh from Whitham’s victory against BMW’s war-knowledge loser Scott Grimsdall it was time to get physical for Round
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The Great Field Bike Challenge
By John Hogan on 07/09/2009 16:53:14
For less than £200 you can buy a field bike. Now convince five mates to do the same and have the best afternoon’s racing of your life. Re-discover the reason you got into bikes in the first place for less than the price of a night out in London . .
came off. And continued coming off. As the flag dropped Hogan claims he got the holeshot, but was promptly nerfed straight off the track by the (marginally) more experienced Whitham. Cantlie and Mackenzie were locked in a battle on their C70 and C90
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Three And A Half Grand Secondhand Steel
By Jon Urry on 14/10/2007 15:22:12
With the unlikely premise of £3500 fast burning holes in their pockets, four TWO teamsters are buying second-hand steel. It's head v hearts all the way
in with a stack of cash and say, 'I want that one'. Typically they're bringing in their old bike, usually worth £1500, and they've begged, borrowed or financed the rest."Of the TWO team, sadly only Whitham would be able to lay out the cash for real, although
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The End of Trackdays?
By Mike Peake on 18/03/2009 10:49:24
Soaring costs, endless red-tape and now a new peril – an American-style suing culture – are taking their toll on the British motorcyclist’s greatest escape…
years later the case is on-going and Alex is looking down the barrel of a £100,000 court case, still unsettled today.Mention the words ‘trackdays’ and ‘suing’ to Visordown’s James Whitham and the air will turn blue. James used to run a trackday company
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Motorcycle Radar: 1995
By Roland Brown on 21/11/2010 11:03:43
Roland Brown looks back at a year that left Fred West dead, thousands killed in an earthquake, but we got the 748SP
Whitham was neck-and-neck with Steve Hislop for the British Superbike crown before stopping racing to start a course of chemotherapy. Whatever happened to him?MOST MEMORABLE RIDEA year after Ducati’s earth-shattering 916 came an equally gorgeous, almost
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