I love motorbikes, I love road racing, although that is called into question with the passing of a yound rider in Satruday’s supertwins race, Malachi Mitchel Thomas, my thought go out to all who knew him. Life is all about what you do and who you do it with and motorbikes, big fuck off motorbikes. …
With the announcement that the Bol D Or is returning to its spiritual home, Paul Ricard there is no question, we are going. The Bol has in the past been run at Le mans and in more recent times at Magny Cours but Ricard is regarded by many as the true home of the Bol. …
Friday night in the pits at the Spa Classic in Belgium, a pack of Kawasaki’s, a herd of Suzuki’s broken up by Laverda’s, Moto Martin’s, Egli’s, P&M’s and a host of Harris’. The XR41 was pretty dam cool, an iconic bike built to win the world endurance championship, the forerunner of the GSXR range. Big …
Projext X has been on standby for a while now but today I received all the papers back from customs that should allow the allocation of an age related plate. Thats been a bit of a headache to be fair and i didnt wnat to commit funds until I was certain that the papers were …
I have no idea what this is, not a scooby do, but, we like it.
This is the fourth year that the Le Mans 24 hour race has brought the Word Endurance Chanmpionship to a close. Moved four years ago to the end of the season finale having traded places with the Bol D Or at Magny Cours, Le Mans is the second of the 24 hour races with further …
Ireland’s premier road race has suffered from poor weather in recent years, which is a shame because racing on the closed roads between Portrush, Portstewart and Colraine is probably the best I have seen in thirty years of watching racing. William Dunlop on Guy Martin’s back wheel entering the Ballysally roundabout The partisan Irish crowd …
Endurance racing isn’t just about the racers suffering hours of discomfort, sweat and tears, the spectators go through it too and that is the whole point of 24 hour racing. The race may last a day but the preparation by the teams and those that come to watch starts long before the the flag drops …
Blue sky days on the Isle of Man means bikes and racing, we headed over for the re vamped Classic TT and Manx GP. Riding a motorbike on the circuit for the first time is a rather surreal experience, we’ve heard about it, we’ve watched the DVDs and the ITV4 coverage of the recent TT, …
We left the café on a Sunday evening in August, girls on board, with the intention of making it back to Le Mans in one hit, we had tried this before and failed miserably but what followed was a fast, never to be repeated trip. As we neared Antwerp on the ring road a …