April

Year: 2002

Month: April

Rider’s blind faith at 150mph

01 April 2002

Reckon you could ride this at 150mph? In a blindfold? With earplugs in? Graham Hicks is both blind and deaf, but he’ll be aiming to pilot this Super Blackbird-based device to a new world record this...

Suggs’ insurance madness

01 April 2002

Pop star and TV presenter Suggs – real name Graham McPherson – was left thinking he wasn’t the only nutty boy involved when insurers refused to cover him to ride a Moto Guzzi. The Italian firm’s UK arm paid for the Madness frontman to pass his test and had a freebie 72bhp California Stone lined up for him for publicity purposes. But insurance firms wouldn’t cover him. They feared he would be...

Benelli Tornando first test

01 April 2002

Benelli has allowed us a first taste of its new Tornado Limited Edition – and preliminary impressions are that the £22,500 machine goes as good as it looks. You can read Marc Potter’s full test in...