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Intense, joyful, colourful, loud, exciting. Yep, that’s India. For once, we weren’t the only ones not there. We live an intense (joyful etc) life in the bunker of happiness and we’re happy with [...]

Photo: motogp.com It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, except for Lola* Firstly, a serious note Mike Trimby was more important than any rider of any era.  His death is a big loss to [...]

Photo: Michelin Motorsport It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… …it was Catalunya. Somewhere in this mad bad sad world we live in, a cat has woken and is taking a [...]

Austria! So easily confused by the simple (Americans) for Australia.  Luckily for all of us, its circuits are poles apart.  Phillip Island and the Red Bull Ring are as comparable as Alberto Puig [...]

Photo: motogp.com   There is a House in New Orleans, they call the Rising Sun…* Here’s what you’re going to get this round; a stream of unconscious waffle as I sat and typed notes at [...]

What did the Romans ever do for us? Well, the Italians gave us Mugello.  And Agostini, and Rossi, and Ducati.  On the downside they also gave us Uccio.  Oh well, swings and roundabouts. Mugello [...]

Just as there aren’t Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing, neither were there a couple hundred thousand of spectators at Le Mans even though, apparently it was (according to the script I’m reading), [...]

Frankie says… Relax. In Argentina no one can hear you scream because the sound of the rain drowns out everything. But just like Portugal, the track is fecking marvellous. Yet another Jarno [...]

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack….. ……And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?” Probably on an arse-achingly long flight to be honest. The Thailand [...]

‘Ring of Fire (and yes, no one else thought of that for headline – Ed), You Took My Breath Away Top Gun Germany. And us in a bunker because that’s where the Ed thinks we’d be less likely to cause [...]