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A legend. Peter Purves has been in tons of cult TV shows and a stable of British television in Blue Peter and anchoring the Crufts dog show, but it is his role as the face of Kickstart for its entire 13-series run that we find Mr Purves here as an icon

Whats not to love about the 70's, lairy cars, crazy dress-sense, hairy women (forget the last bit). TWO feature looking at 70's biking

Post RD350 and pre RD350LC there was the RD400. Cool doesn't even come close

Step aside MotoGP, cheap-as-chips supermoto moped endurance racing is about to hit the big time. Mark Forsyth took a real racer and factory mechanic to the job - and still didn't win

Courting death, danger and drudgery, Urry dons a heart monitor to see if Honda's vapid but virtuous NT700V Deauville can raise a beat

Don't you just want to turn that clutch basket with your hand?

Don't buy an established classic. Use your noddle. Buy a future classic instead...

It’s one of the best-known off road skills schools in the UK, catering for all levels of ability. But even the BMW off-road school hadn’t witnesseth incompetence of the scale Urry accomplished

Forget trying to look cool on your new sportsbike, there is a new craze in town. Adventure bikes are the latest up and coming fashion accessory. You’d be a right Charley to miss out...

Change your clutch in 12 easy steps

Think 750cc, think Suzuki. Here's the bike that kicked it all off way back in 1972. Somebody put the kettle on...

A political icon from the Swinging 60s and owner of the second most famous beret in the world (after Frank Spencer's) it's little known that Che was a very keen motorcyclist and biking author. Good on him...

Surely there's never been a more insane idea than freestyle motocross

Niall Mackenzie and James Whitham rediscover their racing rivalry - this time on trials bikes at the Lampkin Action Day Experience in Yorkshire

We've asked top racing pundits to name their best non-Grand Prix races. And here they are...

We've asked the most knowledgeable race pundits in the world and picked out their top Grand Prix races

It's a bike race, but not as we know it. Old bikes, Italian gents and Englishmen go mad in the Mediterranean sun. Sicily says 'hello' to the Motogiro

The White Helmets display team have been entertaining kids at military tattoos for over 90 years. But in this day of psycho freestylers aren’t they just relics, a total anachronism?

Julian Rhind-Tutt, the blond actor from those Barclay Card adverts, discusses Ducatis, the incorrect way to exit Druids corner and playing Mr Monks with a broken thumb...

Looking like it had been waved out of pitlane and on to the road, the KR-1 arrived in a puff of blue smoke back in 1988

What really happened behind the scenes when the 2008 Dakar rally was cancelled due to terrorist threats. Visordown investigates

If you wear an AraI helmet it’s thanks to thIs guy. Ferry Brouwer Is the founder of AraI Europe. He’s also Dutch and a lIttle odd...

It’s motorsport in its purest form. Take two vehicles, ¼ mile of straight tarmac, a set of traffic lights and two warring parties. The bullshit stops when the lights turn green…

Ever watched MotoGP and thought “I could do that if I had the breaks...”? Well stop dreaming and get racing. Here’s the inside line on the curious world of the British club racing scene...