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Frank on Friday: David Davis and Bikefest

Just when you think you’ve seen everything, along comes a politician with principles. I am completely apolitical when it comes to party politics but I am full of admiration for a politician who will stand up for his beliefs. David Davies seems to be ...

From FRANK MELLING, The Telegraph,  13 Jun 2008
Related Topics: David Davies,  DfT,  Ken Livingstone

Riding in the Ducati TT Cavalcade

It’s a very hectic week so Friday’s column has arrived today. This evening we’re off to a posh do at the Portal Championship Golf Club for the Vale Royal Business Awards evening. I know that we’ve been shortlisted for something but I don’t know if ...

From FRANK MELLING, The Telegraph,  4 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Ducati,  Carl Fogarty

Frank on Friday: It's a good job al-Qa'eda don't recruit classic bike racers

New bike hunting has had to be put on hold this week because we’ve flat out working on next year’s Thundersprint - really! There has been a lot of formal post event evalutions to do working with our friends in Cheshire Police and Vale Royal Borough ...

From FRANK MELLING, The Telegraph,  30 May 2008

Frank on Friday - the hunt is on

The glorious weather has meant that I have had to seriously buckle down to the job of finding a new bike. It’s a tough job but go on, call me a hero.  Ducati Multistrada: what a bike! Ducati Manchester kindly lent me a new Multistrada for the day and ...

From FRANK MELLING, The Telegraph,  23 May 2008

Frank on Friday: Choosing a new bike

It’s five days after the Thundersprint and things are just beginning to settle down after what was an incredible weekend. Record breaking crowd, southern Mediterranean heat, meeting so many DT Bloggers in the flesh (and what a lovely group they are too) ...

From FRANK MELLING, The Telegraph,  16 May 2008
Related Topics: Honda,  BMW

Frank on Friday: fast forward days

Frank Melling is guest-blogging for Erin Baker Everyone here is on full war footing at present which is simultaneously exhilarating, intoxicating and exhausting. Next Friday evening, campers, riders, exhibitors and traders start arriving for the ...

From FRANK MELLING, The Telegraph,  2 May 2008
Related Topics: The Beatles

Frank on Tuesday: I love the smell of dope in the morning

The Brooklands Centenary celebration meeting last weekend was, to use my favourite Lancashire expression, a right good do. Just loading the Seeley into our race trailer for the trip to Surrey brought a tremendous sense of peace and pleasure - a bubble ...

From FRANK MELLING, The Telegraph,  29 Apr 2008

Frank on Friday - This week I have mainly been...

I’m looking forward to Saturday. Even by our standards, this year’s Thundersprint has been a busy one so it will be nice to be at the Stafford Show Ground tomorrow for the Classic Bike Show. I like this show a lot. These days, it’s mainly a huge ...

From FRANK MELLING, The Telegraph,  26 Apr 2008
Related Topics: James May

Frank on Wednesday - Stop looking at the back of your tonsils

We get a lot of bike magazines in our office - perhaps more than is sensible for mental health. Over the last year, I’ve noticed a new, and rather worrying, trend. It’s this. The mug shots of the correspondents all now show glowering, focussed, SAS ...

From FRANK MELLING, The Telegraph,  23 Apr 2008

Frank on Monday - Prince William impresses Kate Middleton

I’m minding the shop whilst "She Who Must be Obeyed" is sunning herself somewhere in the Caribbean. I’ll do my best to post some things but they’ll probably be "bloggettes" rather than the full blown "Frank on Friday" column because at present every ...

From FRANK MELLING, The Telegraph,  21 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Kate Middleton

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