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Frank Robinson

 

 

Current Ride: Triumph 900 Scrambler
Riding style:
Some days average - some days worse than!
Years Riding:
45-scary!
Favourite rider:
Mike Hailwood
Best bike memory:
Enduro Africa 2007 trying to keep up with the boys - didn't!
Dream garage:
Think I have it - 5-WAYS workshops
Best bit of bike kit:
my X-lite Hailwood Replica helmet, my "kids" bought me it for my 60th birthday
Ideal bike day:
Riding my favorite back roads on the Island, far, far away from the circuit

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Current ride: Yamaha WR250F for enduro riding, Vespa GTS for commuting, our demo fleet!!
Riding style: Footloose
Years riding:
33 - started out young!
Favourite rider:
The GOAT
Best bike memory:
Day 5 - Enduro Africa 2007 - bloody tough going but fantastic sense
of achievement!
Dream garage:
Confederate Wraith, Track day spec ‘09 R6R, The new Super Tenere when
itcomes out, Kawasaki KLX450R and a Vintage Vespa GS.
Best bit of bike kit:
Pinlock - amazing and Linstrands Lizard Pants - Bombproof!
Ideal bike day:
Wake up early and ride the TT Mountain section, eat and then go Enduro
riding with my brother and pals.

Click here to contact Gareth

 

Tim Robinson  5-Ways

 

 

Current ride: Honda CRF250 / Yamaha R1
Riding style: resilient
Years riding: 29
Favourite rider: David Jefferies
Best bike memory: Enduro Africa
Dream garage: Ewan McGregor's
Best bit of bike kit: Linstrands Lennox Jacket
Ideal bike day: a morning of mud and an afternoon of dry sunny track

Click here to contact Tim

John Richardson  5-Ways

Sales Executive

 

 

Current ride: Kawasaki Z750
Riding style: touring / private back roads GP
Years riding: 15
Favourite rider: Troy Bayliss - I saw his last ever WSB ride/victory at Donnington
Best bike memory: Touring up to John ‘o Goats on Z750 in tropical storm-like conditions
Dream garage: cross-plane YZF-R1, MT-01, WR450F, KTM Super Duke
Best bit of bike kit: Shoei XR1000, Kawasaki quick-release tank bag and Alpinestar boots
Ideal bike day: Up to Whitby flat-out whilst the world cup final (England v Germany) was
on TV - roads would be pretty dead I recon!

Click here to contact John

Darren Slater  5-Ways

Parts & Accessories Manager

 

 

Current ride: GSX650F
Riding style: Relaxed/Insane
Years riding: 3 legally, 18 illegally!
Favourite rider: Tom Sykes
Best bike memory: My first wheelie on my 1988 TZR125YPVS Nice!
Dream garage: Yamaha RD500LC, BMW GS1200, KTM 990SMR and Yamaha R1.
Best bit of bike kit: Pinlock and everything Halvarssons
Ideal bike day: Police on strike, 80 degrees temp and desolate country roads. Choice
of off-road, hyper-sport and cruiser. Bliss!

Click here to contact Darren

 

 

Current Ride: Kawasaki ZX12R
Riding style: 
Was ‘steady away’ but now getting too brave for my own good!
Years Riding:
3yrs on full license, but rode loads as a youngster on the must own Honda
(nobber 90) and Yamaha DT125
Favourite rider:
For all out bravery John Mcguiness at the TT. And also admire Jamie
Toseland and Shaky Byrne
Best bike memory:
A great ride out, when it all came together, to a great hill climb event
including a bit oftime with a class record holder and his Suzuki TL1000.  Very impressed,
what a mad man!
Dream garage:
ZZR1400 in black, for the two up days, and an Aprilla RSV4 or Tuono for
my lone rider days.
Best bit of bike kit:
My alpine stars Boots, got the top spec for safety and protection, … guessed
I’d need it sooner or later!
Ideal bike day:
Difficult to get anywhere more adventurous, but a day’s touring with my partner
aboard ending with a stop-over somewhere with stunning views, and a racing event to wake up to!

Click here to contact Michael

Workshop Controller

Gary Pattrick

Clothing and Accessory Sales

 

 

Current Ride: CBR 954 Fireblade
Riding style:
Impatient/Aggressive
Years Riding:
8/9
Favourite rider:
Shaky Burns
Best bike memory:
120mph side by side cartwheel with my SV650S and walked away unharmed
(Bike didn’t make it)
Dream garage:
Yamaha R1, Honda Fireblade, Kawasaki Z1000, Ducati Desmosedici RR
Best bit of bike kit:
Shoei XR1000
Ideal bike day:
Hot and sunny day at Cadwell with racetrack to myself

Adam Oates

Online Sales Assistant and Store presentation

 

 

Current ride: YZF-R1, 675 Daytona Track Bike,  VFR400R, KTM 125SX TR edt.
Riding style: Aggressive
Years riding: 7
Favourite rider: Danny Pedrosa
Best bike memory: 1st Wheelie on my ’00 R6
Dream garage: ’09 Yamaha R1, ’11 MV Augusta F4  ,’11 KTM EXC300 2T, ’00 Aprilia RS250
Best bit of bike kit: Sidi Vortice Boots, Shoei XR1000 Helmet
Ideal bike day: Mad Sunday at IOM TT

Mike Jewitt  5-Ways

Senior Technician

 

 

Current Ride: RD350LC
Riding style:
crashable
Years Riding:
21
Favourite rider:
Mick Doohan
Best bike memory:
Getting off a 125
Dream garage:
97 NSR500, Ducati Desmocedici 990, RD350LC, BSA Rocket Gold star,
Crossplane R1, Honda C90!
Best bit of bike kit:
Flash Race suit
Ideal bike day:
Track day at Philip Island

Mike Hayes  5-Ways

Technician

 

 

Current Ride: RD350LC
Riding style:
Fast the better (in his dreams)
Years Riding:
5
Favourite rider:
Race Shift!
Best bike memory:
Riding my LC for the first time
Dream garage:
Loads of 2-strokes
Best bit of bike kit:
Nitro Helmet
Ideal bike day:
A day riding without worrying about the police or cameras