![]() ![]() All Hondas, but more down to coincidence and convenience than anything else. So we chose a CBR125 to show him the basics, a Hornet 600 to get him used to a bit of power and a Fireblade for going mental on. Take one total novice (Speccy) to a big, long piece of Tarmac (Bruntingthorpe), teach him to ride and then go ballistic. The plan was beautiful in its simplicity. He was brilliantly and spectacularly clueless about the whole thing. Enthusiastic enough to be well up for our 0-180mph in a day challenge, yet bright enough to have a healthy awareness of the potential risks (well, some of them), Peter, or Speccy Bender as we called him despite being neither gay or rarely wearing glasses, had one key factor in his favour: he had never ridden a motorcycle before. Peter Fickling is a freelance designer who had done a bit of work for TWO, and had innocently enquired about the possibility of being involved in something 'dangerous and stupid to do with bikes' while last working for us. So we went ahead and did it.Īnd we had the ideal lab rat. Like the state of our liability insurance. Then everyone decided it would be really funny, and at the same time make some profound point about something or other. On the face of it this might seem like a deeply irresponsible exercise, and there were winces of disapproval all round among the TWO hierarchy when the idea was first suggested. Black solid margin-bottom:2px " width="300" />
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