First bike ride elates Hammond

If he can ride a bike, he can present TV. More Top Gear soon. Yay!

I am waiting until the New Year.

BBC News

Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond has said it was “fantastic” to ride a motorbike for the first time since his near-fatal jet-car crash in September. He told Motorcycle News he had taken his Honda Fireblade around the streets of London just days after being given the all-clear to ride by doctors.

Hammond crashed in September while filming for the BBC motoring programme.

“I just can’t believe how good that was,” he said, although he admitted the first few minutes were “wobbly”.

Hammond suffered memory loss and needed weeks of therapy after the 288mph (463km/h) accident at Elvington airfield near York in the north of England.

But he said it had not dimmed his love of all things petrol-driven, especially his bike.

Comments

2 responses to “First bike ride elates Hammond”

  1. 213.202.141.43
    re: First bike ride elates Hammond

    Bring back William Woolard, that’s what I say. (If I want to watch people doing chavvy stunts with cars, a la Clarkson et al., I’ll just pop down the beach at midnight thankyou.)

  2. Stephen Usher
    re: First bike ride elates Hammond

    Here! Here!

    (Still, Hamster, Doctor Slow and Clarkson are amusing a lot of the time, so a programme containing half an hour of the comedy trio and half an hour of serious motoring journalism would be my ideal.)

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