Life, motorbikes, and random thoughts

NHS fiasco will lead to prosecutions

If you find a huge security flaw in a government system whatever you do don't alert the proper authorities to the breach or you may well find yourself the victim of misused and badly written nu-labour laws .

The ID card debacle

Not only have the powers that be decided that they'll just bolt the ID card scheme onto current Home Office databases rather than create a new one but the costs of Machiavellian scheme have risen by the a huge factor.

Shanghai MotoGP Results

Full result listings here. Shanghai has the longest straight in the Grand Prix season so it was always a safe bet that the Ducati's straight line speed advantage would make itself felt and so it did. The first time they…

Shanghai MotoGP Qualifying

The Doctor's working his magic again with a new lap record for Shanghai and pole position. Hopkins is in second place! Goooo Hopo! Edward's has a decent third place but the question with the Yamaha's is will the…

This made me laugh.

British Superbikes at Silverstone 2007

I said I'd go again and so I have. This year the Silverstone round was much earlier (29th April). I booked two tickets on-line for me and my brother Pootle. Later I discovered that under sixteen's go free so I gave my…

Turkish MotoGP results

Sorry if this write up's a bit slow but as soon as yesterday's race ended I was out on a ride-out with Simbo. Wow! What a race. It was a real fairing banging, place swapping race. Unless of course you were Casey Stoner…

Another birthday

Cheers to everyone who's popped over to wish me happy birthday. It's raining here so no chance of a birthday ride-out for me today but it's OK because I'm off to watch British Superbikes next weekend.

Turkish MotoGP Qualifying results

We have a Yamaha one two on the grid. The Doctor in on pole and Edwards is second. It looks like the technical Turkish circuit is suiting the high speed cornering Yammy M1s. Rossi is understandably happy as he's never…

MotoGP Jerez race results

Well it was Rossi's day today. He stamped his authority on the Spanish circuit leading the race all the way from an early overtake on the pole sitter Pedrosa. He stuffed it up the inside of the little Spaniard and…

MotoGP Jerez qualifying results

1. Dani PEDROSA 2. Valentino ROSSI 3. Carlos CHECA 4. Colin EDWARDS 5. Casey STONER 6. John HOPKINS 7. Shinya NAKANO 8. Toni ELIAS 9. Marco MELANDRI 10. Kenny ROBERTS JR 11. Nicky HAYDEN 12. Randy DE PUNIET 13. Alex…

MotoGP riders and teams

Repsol Honda Nicky Hayden (current champion USA) Danny Pedrosa (Spain) Fiat Yamaha Valentino Rossi (Italy) Colin Edwards (USA) Rizla Suzuki John Hopkins (USA) Chris Vermeulen (Australia) Kawasaki Racing Randy De Puniet…

MotoGP Jerez free practice 2

Things are settling out in Jerez. Looks the Spaniards are having fun at home. What's going on with Capirossi? 1. Checa 2. Pedrosa 3. Elias 4. Stoner 5. Roberts 6. Rossi 7. Hopkins 8. Vermeulen 9. Edwards 10. Barros 11.…

MotoGP Jerez free practice 1

We have some weird results for the first practice session. Kenny Roberts jnr. has posted the fastest time. Followed by Melandri and then Casey Stoner. Next up is Hayden (remember him? Oh yeah he's the dude with a number…

Ilmor quits MotoGP

Ilmor has announced that it is dropping out of MotoGP until such time as sponsorship is acquired. Mario Illien has been quoted as saying: "It is very disappointing and I underestimated how difficult it is to secure…

MotoGP Qatar race results

Well that was an interesting first race, it confirmed some of my ideas and changed some of my preconceptions. Casey Stoner on the Ducati came first, Rossi's Yamaha was second, Pedrosa was third and Hopkins fourth. Then…

MotoGP Qatar qualifying results

Rossi's on pole (wo0t) with a time of 1'55.002, he's edged out Casey Stoner who takes second place. In third is Edwards taking the last place on the front row. The second row, in order, is Elias, Pedrosa and Hopkins…

They want to fingerprint your children

The Times has an article on the government's plans to fingerprint all kids when they apply for passports. NuLabour needs to learn that it is not its place to watch us but to serve us.

MotoGP 2007 Predictions

OK, time to make a few predictions for MotoGP. I haven't been watching very long but with the capacity change my guess is as good as anyone else's. I can't help but put Rossi as the favourite, he has the talent, he has…

MotoGP 2007

So the season start is nearly upon us and the circus descended upon Jerez for official testing at the weekend. Various bits and pieces from the weekend caught my attention. Firstly there have been a few offs over the…