I've always enjoyed talent spotting. Seeing a young rider for the first time and watching his career grow is a very satisfying thing. That is why I am such a huge Marc Marquez fan. The passion with … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2017
Watch out, I’m MAD
The following is a Press Release from Motorcycling NSW. 24th March 2017 PRESS RELEASE SHOALHAVEN ROAD RACING FACILITY PROPOSAL For around 7 years now Motorcycling NSW Ltd have been working … [Read more...]
Small details
In racing, it's the small details that usually make the difference. And, the further up the tree you go, the smaller the details become and the bigger difference they make. Today's article IS about … [Read more...]
Better with the telling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Nc27xTS1k You'd have to have been living under a rock for the last 20 years to have missed this famous video clip from the WSBK event at Phillip Island in 1992. … [Read more...]
Party, party, party
It's been more than a little hectic around here for the last week or so for reasons that I can't explain. It has kept me pretty close to home and unable to update but I managed to fulfill a very … [Read more...]
The K.I.S.S. principle
I am a (very) late convert to camping. I should explain that my lifelong antipathy to anything camping-related stems from being scarred by camping as a child. When I was around 5 my dad and mum were … [Read more...]
Jimi Mac was here
It's a given that, if you go to the Island Classic, you're there for the fun as well as for the racing; that's just the nature of the meeting. I want to cast my mind back to an incident in 2013 that … [Read more...]
Rain, rain
First of all, my apologies for the lack of updates. A small stay in hospital has kept me out of circulation but I'm home now and trying to catch up. Suffice it to say that, if you've been keeping … [Read more...]