Ridin', wrenchin' and shootin'
One shot, three 250 world champions at Brands in October ’70 – #4 Kel Carruthers (who won the title in ’69) and #5 Rod Gould (that year’s champion) chase Phil Read (winner in ’64, ‘65, ’68 and ‘71). pic.twitter…
Keira Knightley will surely get a buzz going in this teaser for the new Chanel Coco Mademoiselle fragrance, but it’s the motorcycle she rides while shilling for the parfum that gets my heart racing. I know nothing of parfum, but this is how the flacks describe this particular fragrance: Sexy,...
King Kenny at Donington in ’81 on the rotary valve square-4 OW54 – a knee-jerk reaction to Suzi’s faster RG and by royal proclamation ‘a total disaster’. In reality tho’, Yam never saw the ill-handling 500 as anythin…
TR750 XR11 – the Flexi Flier, first raced at Daytona in ’72. The overstressed early bikes were about as reliable as a politician’s promise, but when it kept going the Kettle racer had plenty of steam and it remained in front-line work…
’74 spaceframe JP Norton: lean, mean – and with more tubes than London Underground. Last of the Commando-based works racers and undeniably a thing of beauty – but sadly a battleaxe v a machine gun when up against the new breed of two-stroke…
Psychologist and researcher Bernt Spiegel, in his work for BMW, found that non-motorcyclists and neophyte riders usually share a fatalistic attitude. According to Spiegel, those groups see high speed riding as a kind of “game of chicken or Russian roulette” and imagine that riders are engaged in a test of...