How To

Before you even think of throwing your leg over a bike you need to get kitted up with the right safety gear and top of your list needs to be an ACU-approved/BSI-standard crash helmet.

Motorsports are dangerous but you can reduce the risk by taking a few sensible precautions - and your #1 piece of safety equipment has got to be a lid...

The competitive season is already underway and fast picking-up pace as thousands of off-road nuts nationwide come out of winter hibernation to indulge themselves in their favouite sports, but how do you become involved in the exciting world of competitive off-road motorcycling and where do you start if you want to do racing?

Filming your riding experience with cameras that mount onto you and your bike. Here's a quick guide to help you on your way to sending us your footage.

Riding kit isn't just designed to make you look good when you're rippin up the track - it's there to keep your mind and body in one piece!

Geoff Walker's one of the most respected MX technicians in the country with a CV that reads like a who's who of British (and Swiss) motocross.

Alan Milway is a qualified sports scientist who runs MX Fitness specialising in training motocross and enduro riders. For more information on how Alan can help you train go to his website www.mxfitness.co.uk or call him on 07810 827427

Enter, stage left, seven-time world champ Dougie Lampkin MBE. If something's worth doing it's worth doing reet (as Dougie would say). And so we rapidly found ourselves in Dougie's personal practice patch - armed with his factory Repsol Montesa - in sunny Silsden (amazingly, it was just that) for the first of our eagerly-awaited series.

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