Motovudu riding coach (and 500 GP winner) Simon Crafar helped out a lot. He let me stay with his family and took me around Spain a little with his…
As we slithered around the 90-degree corner, the back straight of New Zealand’s Pukekohe circuit unfolded. All one kilometre of it, which eventually ends in a 50km/h hairpin.
Yes, you know the one. Cobalt blue and ocean-deep silver paintwork. An elegant half-fairing, sensuously shaped tank and sexy ducktail seat with an usual zipper connection. The point…
Team orders are controversial enough anyway. Perhaps it was in the interests of decency, sportsmanship, truth and beauty that Jorge held himself aloof. But more likely because his…
As published in AMCN (Vol 67 No 11) Ignore history at your peril. As Irish philosopher Edmund Burke famously stated three centuries ago, “Those who don’t know history are…
Jon is the national brand manager for Husqvarna Motorcycles and has been backing me for a few years now with a TC125 and FC250 to race dirt track. Jon…
You’ve just completed two rounds of a world championship on a bike you’d never seen before with a rider who’d never ridden in the class, how did it go?…
Not just because Márquez reliably has the beating of Dani Pedrosa. Actually he doesn’t, not every time. At Jerez Dani beat him by six seconds. But…
Dad sent me a text message at school asking me to call him at lunchtime, and when I rang him he asked if I would like to ride…
If I knew what a flabber was, I would certainly know that it has been thoroughly and repeatedly gasted. By Valentino Rossi. I must…
“It’s time to start acting your age son, and leave that fearless gung-ho business to the young ones … Time you spent more time with the ones closest to…
Of course there is no simple answer. Or perhaps there is. It’s whoever won the last race. I’ve followed racing closely for several decades, and, somewhat against…
