Motorcycle accident liability – Mate’s fate?
10 May 2010
I was riding in a 60mph zone with two mates, probably doing a bit over 60, when an old git pulls out of a side road. I hit the front of the car and have been left with damage to some foot ligaments, which makes walking pretty painful, although my doctors say it will get […]
Snetterton preview
29 Apr 2010
The fastest track on the calendar awaits in Norfolk this weekend. Many British circuits are on the sites of old airfields, but none quite so obviously as Snetterton. It takes little imagination to picture its two huge straights as runways. Speed and power are the first things that spring to mind as necessary ingredients for […]
Season and Rd1 preview
10 Mar 2010
The 2010 season starts this Saturday at Mallory Park. Part of the club racing idiom is not knowing who you will be racing until you sign in on raceday morning. The pecking order won’t shake out until after qualifying, at the earliest. One (big) step up, in the British paddock, all the riders and teams […]
Re doing my IAM
19 Aug 2009
After about 21 years, I have decided to re do my IAM test, and found myself meeting with one of the senior observers for my area, Simon Rawlins. Simon’s tyres showed his Bandit had been ridden a bit, with no chicken strips anywhere on his tyres. They were not cooked like trackday tyres but lets […]
