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By Guy Redshaw July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 Uncategorized

My Cannondale MX400: The Cool Box!

In case you haven’t read any of my previous posts about my Cannondale MX400 journey, here’s a quick catch up, and specifically about the engine. At a very early stage, I had decided to buy a completely new engine built by US Cannondale engine guru, Ken Deal of Black Widow

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By Guy Redshaw May 8, 2022May 8, 2022 Uncategorized

Carnaby: Industrial Estate, Racetrack, Special Airfield.

Here’s an exciting journey back in time, and about a very special place that has evolved massively in the last 79 years. Just to the the south of the Yorkshire coastal town and holiday resort of Bridlington in the U.K., there is a little village called Carnaby. The traffic on

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By Guy Redshaw April 11, 2022April 11, 2022 Uncategorized

The ‘Interesting Moto Interview’ Series – No. 1: Guy Bolton

In recognition of the success of the ‘Interesting Interviews Series’ on my cycling site, this interview is the first of a new feature dedicated to some really interesting people in our motorcycle world. So, let me introduce you to the founder, editor and boss of the magazine, Greasy Kulture, Guy

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By Guy Redshaw March 25, 2022March 26, 2022 Uncategorized

‘Video killed the Radio Star’ and ‘Digital killed the Paper Magazine Star’ 

In late 1979, a band called The Buggles released a track called Video killed the Radio Star. It was inspired and written as 20th Century inventions and technology were speed-changing the face of all media norms. It hasn’t stopped ever since. In fact, I would argue that the paradigm shift

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By Guy Redshaw March 9, 2022 Uncategorized

Shout, shout, let it all out!

I fasten my helmet I am the only one inside Nobody else is in here Ignition on, the fuel pump whines Stab the red starter button Electrical current wakes the moving parts. Liquids circulate The cacophony and vibration commences together There is a violence and a softness to the audio

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By Guy Redshaw February 15, 2022February 15, 2022 Uncategorized

Planning ahead and making choices

I’m a bit of a planner and a bit of a do-it-now hybrid type of person, and the former planner in me has nailed a few milestone events to the calendar already. Incidentally, my calendar requires a mention here because it has been produced locally and in aid of charity.

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By Guy Redshaw February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 Uncategorized

How to knit something a bit ‘Yamaha Special’ 

In around 1972, a man named Rollin ‘Molly’ Sanders in the USA came up with the famous Yamaha black and yellow strobe stripe design that we all now know as the Yamaha speed block design. Whilst the American Yamaha Factory riders and bikes of the 1970s were bedecked in bright

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By Guy Redshaw July 26, 2020July 26, 2020 Uncategorized

[email protected]@k Me Pumps

The title to this post maybe familiar because it’s the title of a great Amy Winehouse track. It’s a song that walks through the possibilities of what happens when our shoes lead us down dark alleys and into shady dives. I’m taking a different approach to the title, one that

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By Guy Redshaw April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 Uncategorized

Scooters

I walk into the pub through the side door and am faced by a busy, but not packed bar room. This pub doesn’t have side rooms called things like ‘The Snug bar’ or ‘The Pool Room’, it is just one big room with a horseshoe shaped bar giving easy access

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By Guy Redshaw January 9, 2020January 9, 2020 Uncategorized

Heaven & Hell. My local bike shop. Episode 1.

This story starts and ends with the dirt on the ground. This dirt is special. It captures everything that goes on in this soulful place. Get on your knees and smell this dirt, because it smells of a blend of oil, aluminium, steel, iron, welding, fibreglass and maybe a hint

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By Guy Redshaw February 7, 2023February 8, 2023 trials

Two Electric Motion bikes in One: Tri-Duro – Part 2

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Diary of a Motorcycling Nobody
Diary of a Motorcycling Nobody

Motorcycling Past & Present and Other Stuff