What words destroy you?
I love you. I loathe you. I am disgusted by you. I adore you. We can do this. We don’t have a hope. It’s all over. Don’t give up. Read those words again. Can you feel a tiny bit of emotion with every one? Like a long shadow cast by a feeling, just a sample […]
Where you look is truly where you go
The only true freedom any of us have is in our thoughts I’ve often mentioned in my talks and in my blogs how everything can change in a single moment. A lapse in concentration, a telephone call with bad news, a job offer, a baby is born. All life events that many are familiar with […]
Where did you get your perspective?
Perspectives have power. How you see the world will shape your opinion and galvanise you into action or subdue you into apathy. How you see the world will depend on your family, friends, your culture, your diet, your upbringing, your biology and especially what period in history you were born into. Two people can […]
The Existentialist: Stanley Kubrick talks
It’s odd to think that pearls of wisdom can be found next to pornography. But yes, it can happen. Admittedly it is less likely to happen now that the internet has become the go-to place for stills and videos of people getting together but when magazines used to be king for thrills they sometimes had […]
Bonneville – Who drives your dreams? – Part 4
The final part of the story behind how I got to ride on the Salt Flats during Speed Week 2019. Part 3 can be found here Tired and emotional We needed to move fast now, really fast. The Hayabusa had failed tech inspection because the tire valve stems had to be metal, not rubber. But the […]
Bonneville – Who drives your dreams? Part 3
The continuation of the story behind how I got to ride on the Salt Flats during Speed Week. Part 2 can be found here Christine’s run – 13th August 2019 The Bonneville course starters are super-cool professionals and have the whole process of seeing you off on your run down to a fine art. They check […]
Bonneville – Who Drives Your Dreams? – Part 2
The continuation of the story behind how I got to ride on the Salt Flats during Speed Week. Part 1 can be found here Thursday, 8th August – first time on salt This morning we all woke energised, early and ready to drive the 8 miles to the salt flats down the long straight piece of […]
Back to the beach – for a record time!
Back to Pendine Beach in Wales to meet up with some friends and try my luck at some landspeed records. As you do. Sand is unforgiving. If you come off on damp sand at speed, it’ll be pretty shit. You won’t skim across the top, sliding and flying, letting air resistance reduce some of your […]
Bonneville – Who drives your dreams? – Part 1
It all boiled down to a single moment, as so many things in my life have. I sat there cooking in leathers at the start line on the five mile long course on the Salt Flats at Bonneville, ready to pull back the throttle hand and put fear aside for just a minute or so. […]
Milan – ‘Christine’ is finally unveiled!
The weekend of 6-7 July, 2019, was the first time I was properly introduced to Christine, the bike that I and three others will pilot as part of the Italian Race Team, Open Eyes Dream, in a land speed record attempt during Speed Week in Bonneville, 10-17th August 2019. The bike that I will risk my life […]