WTF- Shakey jumps on the gravy train....

[kendo57]

Didn't Shakey once make videos for Fast Bikes riding like a loon across Europe.

[weeksy]

Didn't Shakey once make videos for Fast Bikes riding like a loon across Europe.

Once ? lol... many many videos... loved them

[formula400]

Didn't Shakey once make videos for Fast Bikes riding like a loon across Europe.

Once ? lol... many many videos... loved them

Wing mirror clipping was the best

[weeksy]

Didn't Shakey once make videos for Fast Bikes riding like a loon across Europe.

Once ? lol... many many videos... loved them

Wing mirror clipping was the best

Did that once when out with Crust and gsxr-ian, fuck me did it explode!

[KungFooBob]

Shakey, Frosty, The Hammer, Colin Schiller. I can't remember the rest.

I had Pulp Friction on VHS and a few others.

You knew they were blagging it when a 748 won the 600 group test.

[weeksy]

Gary mason was another.

[KungFooBob]

Gary mason was another.

Didn't he loop a ZX9 getting off the ferry?

[weeksy]

Gary mason was another.

Didn't he loop a ZX9 getting off the ferry?

I do believe so yes.

[KungFooBob]

Gary mason was another.

Didn't he loop a ZX9 getting off the ferry?

I do believe so yes.

I think it was the cover shot for that month.

I loved FastBikes, it was so left field compared to the rest of the mags.

Whoever did the layouts and design needed shooting tho', they'd put unreadable yellow text on white backgrounds, etc..

[Skub]

Gary mason was another.

Didn't he loop a ZX9 getting off the ferry?

I have a framed and signed copy in the garage,from back in those days. "Spark me up Bitch". The 9R had a titanium can and it put on a good fireworks display.

[ChrisW]

I have a framed and signed copy in the garage,from back in those days. "Spark me up Bitch". The 9R had a titanium can and it put on a good fireworks display.

Any chance of posting a photo of it up..?

[Skub]

I have a framed and signed copy in the garage,from back in those days. "Spark me up Bitch". The 9R had a titanium can and it put on a good fireworks display.

Any chance of posting a photo of it up..?

It's a bit faded after all these year,but you get the idea!

[millemille]

Gary mason was another.

Didn't he loop a ZX9 getting off the ferry?

I do believe so yes.

No, the looped ZX9 was ridden by Craig Tinsley and it was at a peage booth, not the ferry. I was standing about 50 feet away from it happening BITD. Can't remember if it was when Pulp Friction or Mach 1 was being filmed or for a magazine article. That happened pre Shakey days at Fast Bikes, back when the featured riders were the Emmet brothers, Jimmy Miller, Simon Hammerstone, Colin Schiller, Dan Witwicki and a few other hangers on like myself...

Later riders included Shane, Rob Frost, Gary Mason and that's when the riding got seriously hard core.

And AFAICR that ZX9 had a very hard and brief life in the hands of the magazine and a matter of a few days later ended up in a ditch near Cannes and gave rise to the immortal Jimmy Miller quote, knocking on the door of the house whose ditch the garden bordered, "mon motorbicylet c'est dans le jardin!".

The magazine was already having to borrow bikes from readers and dealerships* because they'd done so much damage to press fleet bikes crashing and colliding with each other and I think the ZX9 might have been the very last official bike they got (or it might have been Craig's own...I was doing a lot of drugs at the time....)


*that's how I got involved in the magazine, I had my ZX7R in for a service at a local Kawasaki dealership and the dealers had just had a call from Chiefy begging for the loan of a ZX7R for a shoot and I overheard this and was all fan boi about the magazine, being an avid reader, and the next thing I know I'm riding a brand new ZX7R down to Dover to meet up with the crew and ended up going with them all the way to Cannes and helping out and, once they discovered I could ride a bit, riding the camera bike and doing some fill in riding for the "names" wearing their kit. This was in the late 90's and carried on in one form or another until Chiefy sold the magazine. If you watch the Mach 3 video, with the ZX12R and Hayabusa, it's my own ZX12R for the second half of the video after Gary Mason dropped the original bike at low speed on some slush in the Swiss Alps and knackered the end of the crank.

[Skub]

No, the looped ZX9 was ridden by Craig Tinsley and it was at a peage booth, not the ferry. I was standing about 50 feet away from it happening BITD. Can't remember if it was when Pulp Friction or Mach 1 was being filmed or for a magazine article. That happened pre Shakey days at Fast Bikes, back when the featured riders were the Emmet brothers, Jimmy Miller, Simon Hammerstone, Colin Schiller, Dan Witwicki and a few other hangers on like myself...

Later riders included Shane, Rob Frost, Gary Mason and that's when the riding got seriously hard core.

And AFAICR that ZX9 had a very hard and brief life in the hands of the magazine and a matter of a few days later ended up in a ditch near Cannes and gave rise to the immortal Jimmy Miller quote, knocking on the door of the house whose ditch the garden bordered, "mon motorbicylet c'est dans le jardin!".

The magazine was already having to borrow bikes from readers and dealerships* because they'd done so much damage to press fleet bikes crashing and colliding with each other and I think the ZX9 might have been the very last official bike they got (or it might have been Craig's own...I was doing a lot of drugs at the time....)


*that's how I got involved in the magazine, I had my ZX7R in for a service at a local Kawasaki dealership and the dealers had just had a call from Chiefy begging for the loan of a ZX7R for a shoot and I overheard this and was all fan boi about the magazine, being an avid reader, and the next thing I know I'm riding a brand new ZX7R down to Dover to meet up with the crew and ended up going with them all the way to Cannes and helping out and, once they discovered I could ride a bit, riding the camera bike and doing some fill in riding for the "names" wearing their kit. This was in the late 90's and carried on in one form or another until Chiefy sold the magazine. If you watch the Mach 3 video, with the ZX12R and Hayabusa, it's my own ZX12R for the second half of the video after Gary Mason dropped the original bike at low speed on some slush in the Swiss Alps and knackered the end of the crank.

Very interesting insight.

[formula400]

Didn't he loop a ZX9 getting off the ferry?

I do believe so yes.

No, the looped ZX9 was ridden by Craig Tinsley and it was at a peage booth, not the ferry. I was standing about 50 feet away from it happening BITD. Can't remember if it was when Pulp Friction or Mach 1 was being filmed or for a magazine article. That happened pre Shakey days at Fast Bikes, back when the featured riders were the Emmet brothers, Jimmy Miller, Simon Hammerstone, Colin Schiller, Dan Witwicki and a few other hangers on like myself...

Later riders included Shane, Rob Frost, Gary Mason and that's when the riding got seriously hard core.

And AFAICR that ZX9 had a very hard and brief life in the hands of the magazine and a matter of a few days later ended up in a ditch near Cannes and gave rise to the immortal Jimmy Miller quote, knocking on the door of the house whose ditch the garden bordered, "mon motorbicylet c'est dans le jardin!".

The magazine was already having to borrow bikes from readers and dealerships* because they'd done so much damage to press fleet bikes crashing and colliding with each other and I think the ZX9 might have been the very last official bike they got (or it might have been Craig's own...I was doing a lot of drugs at the time....)


*that's how I got involved in the magazine, I had my ZX7R in for a service at a local Kawasaki dealership and the dealers had just had a call from Chiefy begging for the loan of a ZX7R for a shoot and I overheard this and was all fan boi about the magazine, being an avid reader, and the next thing I know I'm riding a brand new ZX7R down to Dover to meet up with the crew and ended up going with them all the way to Cannes and helping out and, once they discovered I could ride a bit, riding the camera bike and doing some fill in riding for the "names" wearing their kit. This was in the late 90's and carried on in one form or another until Chiefy sold the magazine. If you watch the Mach 3 video, with the ZX12R and Hayabusa, it's my own ZX12R for the second half of the video after Gary Mason dropped the original bike at low speed on some slush in the Swiss Alps and knackered the end of the crank.

That’s epic you got to go out with them

[formula400]

This is basically my commute to work

[The Spin Doctor]

"The bike left the track at a speed of about 60mph with Mr Byrne on it. He travelled a distance of 55 to 60 metres before impact with the barrier.

"He dismounted shortly before impact with the barrier."

[ChrisW]

This is basically my commute to work

That was literally my commute to work in the nineties!

Blimey - 240p max...