The Number of the Beast: The Ducati 1098

The Ducati 1098 poses something of a question: is it a) a World Super Bike with number plates or b) a road bike that somehow missed the point of road in the name? Either way, it commands the attention in a serious way and that’s just sitting still on the side stand. The looks are…
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Lord of the Ring: Tackling the Nordschleife

The trip would include a couple of laps of the infamous ‘Nordschleife’ circuit (the old Grand Prix circuit) with a GT1 driver. I would also join one of the pit crews for a racing pit stop. So far, so exciting. It was only after I had agreed to go that I thought to do a…
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Thrust And Parry: Bovey Castle, Devon

Bovey Castle, sitting in 400 acres of rolling hills in the middle of Dartmoor National Park, is a delight to discover. You really do get the sense of getting away from it all down here: the remote setting, the sheer length of the drive down and even the final few directions: turn right on to…
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