Alex Whitworth

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Alex Whitworth

Junior Content Writer

Alex has been working in the motorcycle industry for as long as he has been at Visordown, which has been since March 2022 so we'll let you work it out from there. He's the new guy. He'd be fetching us all coffee 'round the clock if he wasn't based in the arse end of nowhere. We joke - he has (some) other uses, like tapping out numerous stories on various subjects somewhat frequently. 

Before Visordown, Alex wrote about motorcycle racing in other places and worked on racing broadcasts at national championships (thankfully not in front of the camera) while completing a journalism degree at university into which he shoehorned motorcycles at every possible opportunity: MXGP, BSB, WorldSBK, Motorcycle Live - they all appeared in his academic work somewhere.

Frustratingly, Alex's love for racing originated in - brace for it - cars. A trip to Donington for the BSB race in 2011 saw him realise that there was a far more interesting, exciting, and substantial world of racing outside of F1, and he became a fan of motorcycles. But that was 11 years ago, and he still doesn't ride! What's wrong with him? This is a serious question. Will he ever ride? Could Marc Marquez win outside of HRC? What would Jonathan Rea do on a MotoGP bike? All great questions, and we might never know the answers to any of them. But we think that, with sufficient peer pressure, we can get him on two wheels in a safe enough manner. If it happens, you'll find out about it here on Visordown.

Articles by Alex Whitworth
WorldSBK’s annual Assen trip produced events that could make even the most hardened atheist a believer in 2024
The KTM 450 Rally Replica is back in 2025, with the newest version year undergoing the biggest changes for the model since 2020
Patent filings reveal a semi-automatic transmission being developed for the Yamaha MT-07, and other bikes using the CP2 engine
New breakdown data published by the RAC could show that the condition of roads in the UK is improving 
Tommy Bridewell was in the leading group in just his second race with Honda when a quickshifter failure caused him to retire
The European motorcycle industry has announced support for a push towards increasing the sustainability of urban transport
The Yoshimura SERT Suzuki team was triumphant for the 10th time at the Le Mans 24 Hour, after the first half of the race was dominated by Yamaha
A new touring bike from Germany is actually only sort-of-new and sort-of-from-Germany - China is the origin
The 2024 British Superbike Championship kicks off this weekend with BSB Navarra, as the series races at the Spanish circuit for the first time
The 2024 World Superbike Championship resumes this weekend in Assen. as the Dutch WorldSBK marks round three of the season
The new Mutt DRK-01 very much sticks with the old-school styling the brand has become known for, but features a new engine
Devon & Cornwall Police’s new simulator is intended to improve the hazard perception and therefore safety of inexperienced motorcycle riders
The 2024 Yamaha MT-09 is one of two powered two-wheelers from the Iwata marque to have won a Red Dot Design Award
BSB 2024 is set to be a thrilling season if last year is anything to go by, and comes with an international race for the first time since 2019
Joe Francis returns to the Supersport class in 2024, after five seasons spent on 1,000cc machinery, with the R4R Ducati team
More than 200,000 vehicles were seized by UK police forces last year, according to a new Freedom of Information request
Morbidelli might not have built a bike for nearly 40 years, but a new buyer has been found and it’ll be making bikes once again
Missouri removed its mandate for people to wear motorcycle helmets when riding a bike, and death rates for bikers went up
The 2024 MotoGP Americas Grand Prix was the most exciting race the series has produced at the Texan track. Here’s four things we learned last weekend
Pedro Acosta’s immediate impact as a MotoGP rookie has raised the question of whether he could move up to the factory KTM before the end of 2024
Ducati attended the Fuorisalone, part of the Milan Design Week, with its ‘Forma’ display which shows off the brand’s “creative process”
A motorcycle intended to rival the Honda Gold Wing is being built by a Chinese car maker and will use an eight-cylinder engine
WorldSBK star Danilo Petrucci has spoken to fans via social media for the first time since suffering injuries in a motocross training crash
After public pressure on the matter, the study will now look at headlight glare to reduce the number of cases where road users are dazzled  
Vespa has launched a new special edition scooter to celebrate the 140th anniversary of its parent company, Piaggio