For those who were wondering what happened to Mark Williams

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1243552,00.html

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Buggeration, I can't get C4.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

The snooker player?

 

Get a satellite dish and Sky subscription, then.

 

The BiKE journo (1970s)

 

didn't he edit BiKE in the 90s too?

 

One of the best, IMHO.
As a wanabee fledgling biker of the time
(late '70s/early '80s), I used to read
his columns in various bike mags.

--
Alex
BMW R1150GS
DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8
http://www.team-ukrm.co.uk
Windy's "little soldier"

 

Alex Ferrier says...

I was the same back in the mid-late 70s, when I was still at school.

He still writes a column in one of the bike trade mags, and most months
it's quite interesting to hear his POV on the trade and those people
involved in it.

 

Alex Ferrier expressed the following:

AOL. I still dip into my collection of 'running out of road' columns
from Bike if I want a laugh.

He's still churning out the same stuff:

http://www.paganotter.org.uk/misc/roor/roor1002.html

http://www.paganotter.org.uk/misc/roor/roor0204.html

 

Interesting article.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

I have.

No fucking way.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Occasional stuff in RealClassic, and the odd post on UKRM...

 

And in Classic & MC Mechanics.

 

I still consider myself too young to read classic bike mags.
They haven't started covering eighties Japanese bikes yet have
they?

--
Alex
BMW R1150GS
DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8
http://www.team-ukrm.co.uk
Windy's "little soldier"

 

Alex Ferrier says...

Classic & MC Mechanics is almost all 60/70/80's Jap stuff.

 

Well, founder really IIRC.

Oh, and he started Which Bike and Motorcycle International (also IIRC).

One of my favourite bike journalists ever, even though I suspect it was
his 'lifestyle' that appealed more than the content of his articles. On
reflection I think he was very influenced by Hunter S. Thompson.

Even so, he's one of the reasons that bikes became more than a way of
transport for me.

 

No, a motorcyclist.

I think this is where I'd use a smiley if I did them.

Is anyone else getting irritated by the sudden profusion of smileys in
corporate email?

 

Yes. Obviously.

 

I'm such a corporate-whore that a part of me suggests I should use them
to integrate with others (mainly my Director...).

You know, the quite voice I should listen to that tells me to do the
expedient things that will move my career on rather than the strident
voice that tells me to be true to myself...

 

If I was your Director, I'd be worried. Dead mens shoes and all that...