David Hurst

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Is motorcycling dangerous?

When I tell people I ride a motorcycle, some of them stare back in abject horror as if I’d just told them I had highly contagious plague. It’s like they believe riding a motorcycle is somewhat akin to ordering your own tombstone - for them it’s not a case of ‘if you die’, it’s ‘when […]

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No petrol left - thanks morons!

I need to fuel my car, but I can’t. I have enough fuel to get to my job this afternoon, and then I’m stuck. How can this be? As I understand it, it’s only Shell’s delivery drivers that are on strike, and yet the BP and Texaco stations are out of fuel. Shell amounts to […]

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Moaning whinging American truck drivers - you should try UK diesel prices on for size

Check out this forum page http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/showthread.php?p=2104460.
Can you believe these American truckers are moaning about paying 62.6p per litre (at current exchange rate 6 June 2008). I bet English truckers would gladly part with various body appendages to get Diesel at those prices. Prices here are topping £1.30 per litre.
How fair is it that a nation […]

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Motorcycle Training - CBT & Direct Access Training with PRIDE in Taunton

I have a list of goals to achieve in my life, and riding a motorcycle has been on that list for many years. Thanks to the British weather, it’s not really a viable form of all year round transportation, which makes it more of an expensive toy, hence the decade delay in doing it.
My wife […]

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The SV650 has arrived

Once again I’m being accused of suffering from a mid-life crisis. I prefer to think of it as fulfilling one of my life’s ambitions. I’m still a few quid short of Ferrari ownership, so I instead decided to finally get my bike licence and buy myself a proper motorbike.
I did my CBT a week or […]

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