Special Features Archives
April May 2013 Davida Competition – Win Signed Copies of Hell For Leather DVD
Sign-Up To Our Davida Newsletter To Win Davida Products Every Month During 2013 Competition April-May 2013 – Win a signed copies Hell For Leather DVD Davida Competition Terms and Conditions Please read these competition rules carefully. If you enter one of our competitions, we will assume that you have read these rules and that you » Continue Reading
Vintage Videos
Ride For Your Life – by Robin Spry 1966 Following a near fatel crash in Japan, this short documentary records the recovery of Mike Duff , Canadian GP Racer and one of the racers in our Racing Series. This range of helmet designs aims to honour the racing achievements and celebrate the spirit of racing from » Continue Reading
Thomas Goisque & A Motorcycle With Adjacent Basket
Two hundred years ago, the Grand Army learned the word defeat. The travel writer Sylvain Tesson retraces their ordeal. In early December in Moscow, we cast our eyes up to the onion-domes of St Basil’s Cathedral at the southwest side of Red Square. Our three Russian-made Ural sidecars purr in the cold dawn. We prefer » Continue Reading
Guy Martin in Davida at Sideburn’s Rollerburn 2011
Davida recreate the original team designs of Houston, New York, Tokyo and Madrid from the 1970′s cult movie A Festival of Motorised Death Traps & Roller Derby Vixens. Davida has had a long association with Sideburn Magazine, so when they came up with the out-there concept that is Rollerburn it was almost a given that » Continue Reading
Dirt Quake Hero to Zero-coming last without style- Simon Mills
Erm Knobblies? as opposed to lard-on on lardie slick tyres on a lard cycle, I remember the derogatory term at school “you’re last”….. today having a literal sense I was indeed last and yup I was also LAST…..crap rubbish shit poor not very good perhaps could have been better performing with the National Ballet erm….maybe » Continue Reading
Vamos A La Casa De La Playa-Jules Watts, Wheels and Waves, Biarritz, 2012
Vamos A La Casa De La Playa I was looking forward to this one. I’d just awoken in the back of a van hurtling down a highway in the Czech Rebublic, piloted by two Absinthed up Czech brothers who informed me we were on our way to a gig in a squat in Vienna when » Continue Reading
Davida Jet Gets 5 Star Rating
MCN staff’s bike kit review 07/12/201 Miles Covered/time: 9000/ One year, eight months What’s good? Since I started wearing this helmet my enjoyment of motorcycling has doubled. The essence of riding, for me, is about attachment to you surroundings – the sights, sounds and especially smells- and cocooning my head in a full-face helmet ( » Continue Reading
Mule Variations – Madrid July 11th-15th
Madrid is a lively place to be at the moment, it being the focal point for the anger and unrest of the Spanish peoples at the austerity measures and perceived failings of the government. Every day there are demonstrations by people of all walks of life including the police who whilst I was there got » Continue Reading
Wheels and Waves – Biarritz 2012
Davida attended the annual Wheels and Waves event last weekend and it was a particularly well attended do this year with people turning up from all over Europe as well as the States. The event is organized by Vincent and his wife Valeria, both very welcoming and relaxed despite organizing such a busy weekend. » Continue Reading
Verona Moto Expo 2012
This year’s Verona Moto Expo was my second time attending and boarding the flight from “London” (Stanstead) had a distinct feeling of déjà vu, all the familiar faces were there in the queue, Blue from Back Street Heroes; Dave, Ben, and Gary from Sideburn, artist Conrad Leach and Mark from Ace Cafe amongst others. A » Continue Reading