Meet:-  Stuart Mitchell

Stuart Mitchell

Age:-  39 and 48/12ths Occupation:-   Keeping a bunch of Scientist in line at TRL Current Bike:-   Hornet - Fireblade

Started Riding:-  Tudor Period Fantasy Bike:-  How many can I have?? Forced to choose just one, and going to buy it today, Aprilia RSV Mille with race can. Favourite Road:-   The old B4525 from Banbury to Northampton. Now declassified and reserved for Rapid courses. (have to check accuracy of that, but seems to work so far) Favourite Circuit:-   No contest, the old Nurburgring.

History:-   The usual 125, 250 & then British twins. Saw the light with a Suzuki GSX 750, choosing reliability over mineral oil rash and total rejection by female half of human race. Worked as a courier in London, CX500 of course, joined the police because it was the only job that paid decent money for riding a bike. Went through BMW phase, all round Europe, 1000 mile days and all that. Commuted on various multi coloured MZs, raced MZ briefly and not very illustriously. Full time Police motorcyclist for 2 years before specialising in a job which required more equipment than can be stashed in a BMW pannier. (a HUGE amount!)

Most Embarrassing Biking Moment:-   Either dropping a marked K100 in front of 1,000 football supporters (turned out to be the only cheer of the day, as the home team lost! Bastards, that'll teach them to laugh at me) or releasing the strap holding the front forks of my 'crosser onto the trailer, forks extend, bike and me go over backwards into the mud. Steel foot peg embeds itself in groin. Crashing before the bike is even off the trailer, takes some doing. So called mate too busy laughing to help.