A few years back I was chatting with my Ex-Stepdad who races single-seaters. In fact he's a former Formula Vee UK Championship winner.

We got onto the subject of crashing, and his biggest off in particular.

He was racing at Cadwell Park in SuperVee (bascially Formula Vee with slicks and wings - now long dead in the UK), and came a cropper big-time at a fast corner. This...

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I never did get round to giving up last year as I had promsied myself, my wife, my family etc but shit happens and I wasn't about to jump on the new years resolutions bollocks, so I'd throught I'd try again now.

The time is currently 10:10 and I'd normally have smoked 12ish by now, I haven't had one and I'd quite like to rip someones head off, does not matter whos head any head will do I'm an equaly oppertunity mardy bastard I...

It's August 2005, and I'm standing looking at the BMW R80 that I had lavished much care on, wondering why, it had tried to kill me. Coming back to Stranraer, we were late for the ferry, I was pushing the old BM for all it was worth, turning the A77 into my own private TT circuit, certainly I had never ridden that particular stretch of Scottish tarmac so quickly, probably I had never ridden the BM so quickly, I wanted to get my feet back on Irish soil and nothing was going to stop me.
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OK, so I didn't think that this was interesting enough to do a thread about or anything, so I thought I'd have a little tickle on this instead.

I'd been thinking for some time as to whether or not to knock road riding on the head. I'd started to save some money for a new bike and was torn between an RSV Mille, or a decent track bike with a box of spares and junk!

Just when I was getting somewhere close to enough money to get an early RSV, a friend of mine as you may...

Friday evening, and despite the rain I was looking forward to a weekend with my girlfriend.

I kitted up and got on my bike, carefully taping on my new MD80 micro DV camcorder to test it. I wanted to see how the footage of the cheap £15 version compared to the £65 Veho Muvi Pro that arrived the day before.

A few minutes later I was cruising down the dual carriageway, following happily behind a BMW that was lolloping along at 100mph.

As he passed traffic...