A university lecturer who was stopped repeatedly by police for riding an electric bicycle that looked like a motorbike has been bailed out of trouble by his students who built him a better, faster, more bicycle-like machine.
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Students build cop-proof bike for teacher
June 1st, 2011 
Sharon Gill 
Posted in General biking, Motoring 
Tags: Chris Sargent, Ivan Popov, Justin Nicholls, Kevin Eades, University of Portsmouth 
No Comments »Des & Boswell’s epic ride
May 16th, 2011 Sharon Gill 
One septuagenarian and his dog, one scooter and trailer, more than 8,200 km in a 52-day adventure that took 76-year-old Des Pistorius and his four-legged passenger around the borders of South Africa, meeting up with other bikers along the way.
Motorcycle Diaries a la Foster
October 30th, 2006 Sharon Gill 
Move over Che Guevara. Gavin Foster decided that he, too, could write a best seller and get his face plastered across boobs, if he could only find a famous Revolutionary Icon to accompany him on an epic ride … Words: Gavin Foster Drawing: Mel Card
A birthday party to remember
February 4th, 2005 Sharon Gill 
It turned into a birthday party to remember when Gavin Foster took a group of fifty friends for a drink at the highest pub in Africa – on scooters! Words & photos: Gavin Foster
Test ride: Kawasaki ER5
August 1st, 2003 Sharon Gill 
People are snobs. Oh, all right, SOME people are snobs. Nothing but the very latest is good enough. Some people coldly discard perfectly good bikes in favour of brand new cutting edge technology that, if push comes to shove, probably doesn’t perform all that much better than what they’ve already got. Words & photo: Sharon [...]
