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Below is the magazine contents from the current issue, July 2009. [No.120].
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30 Tom Sykes
The Chin-With-The-Grin gives us his grandstand view of the big Monza crash but then starts babbling on about cats and ladders. It must be the jet lag...
57 Malc Wheeler
The old trout calls himself a ‘wise old stager’ this month. Well, part of that description is right, we suspect, and it gets better when he gets gassed up in the bar at the TT launch...
69 Neil Hodgson
Hodgy is gradually regaining his fitness after his big motocross training accident, but is he ready for this bike racing lark just yet? Only just it would seem...
74 Brownie’s Beat
A nostalgic look back at the days when an inspired Italian engineer took on the might of the world on a two-stroke Harley-Davidson and beat them. Walter Villa remembered...
97 Colin Wright
We’re giving poor old Birdy a rest for a while so who better than another ‘Mr Controversy’ to take up the cudgels than the inimitable Colin Wright. No holds barred, we promise...
6 Big Picture
Are you sure that isn’t Kevin Schwantz and more of
Mr Popular…
10 Paddock Patter
We acclaim Bradley Smith’s
debut GP win, Toby Markham’s points and also picture Guintoli’s horror crash and the Blade
behind bars......
27 Competition
Win enough Arai kit to sink a battleship in another entirely FREE offering, so get those answers in!
76 Slick Bass
The mullet-styled spanner man who was as much responsible for Carl Fogarty’s success as King Carl himself, he’s now plying his still-in-demand trade in a shack at a windy Isle of Man airfield...
80 MotoCzysz C1 - Tested
The latest American dream
which is as unique as it is commercially viable. This GP
racer with lights certainly got Sir Al’s juices flowing; just ask him how it handles...
86 Inbox
A man who can’t quite bring himself to say the ‘S’ word, thoughts on Moto2 and some
of your crash helmet questions answered in this month’s
little lot...
88 Techno Topics
Ever wondered just how that slimy, bronzy-brown coloured treacle that keeps your moving parts from lunching themselves works? So did we...
94 What’s On
Your definitive guide to what’s going on in the world of bike racing over the next month.
96 Racewatch
A brand new feature to keep an eye on all the major results from the current season.
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13 Bradley Smith
In what can only be described as an inspired move, we ask Bradders to pen us a column and he ends up telling us about his maiden GP win! Read all about it...
14 The MotoGP Truck
When you’re away from home for half the year, you really need somewhere special to call base as well as hauling the gear around the world. We take a look inside and are amazed at what we find...
18 Capirossi & Pernat
MotoGP’s longest-standing partnership of rider and manager are planning one last assault on the title, which means poor old Loris has to get up quite early these days...
24 Simon Gillett
The Donington boss has come in for much criticism lately so we thought it only right he had the chance to put the record straight. Dismiss him at your peril...
29 Johan Stigefelt
Stiggy was no mean GP rider in his day but the super-Swede is proving to be one helluva team boss in WSB also. He tells us his secrets...
32 Tommy Hill’s Assen Dairy
Now this would have been good, but for only one thing, the useless so-and-so forgot to take his camera with him. Ah well, at least he got a fry up on the ferry as Mixy downed the pasta...
36 Ben Spies
Very much the man of the moment in WSB, we got the lowdown from some of the people who know him best. Man or machine, gifted racer or deadly assassin on track, you decide..
43 Chris Walker
The best tribute a man can give to his dearly-departed best friend is to put his bike on the podium. This one’s for you Nobby...
44 Scott Smart
The thinking man’s racer who knows more about the bikes he’s ridden than many of his technicians, probably. Having taken a step back from Superbikes, it’s all of a sudden looking rosy again...
48 Green Flag
ThundersportGB is proving to be the most popular race series in Britain, and that’s as much down to one man as any. Meet the ‘other’ Dave Stewart...
52 Clubman’s Corner
More happenings from the club racing world and all the latest information plus a feature on Derby Phoenix front runner Darron Bellworthy. If you want anything including, simply send it to Dangerous Bruce!
58 Keith Amor
Be warned, this article features pictures of an apparently crazed Scotsman whereby we are not sure if the photographer survived. Great stuff from a great big hope who was a little late in starting...
62 NW200 BBC Team
With some of the most exclusive and innovative coverage of any bike racing event in the world ever, we take a look behind the scenes of what it takes to bring you the very best...
67 Norm De Witt
Norm gets all technical about electronics and fuel injection systems on today’s bikes in AMA. Why can’t we just get the flat slides out and leave traction control to the right wrist...?
70 Chaz n’ Mick
Not so much brothers as brothers-in-law as we look at how a pair of top quality British riders are tackling their own individual AMA briefs this season, or not as the case may be...
