Andy Freeman
@andyfsp2.bsky.social
Mainly motorbikes and mountains. Sometimes motorbikes in the mountains.
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New Oxley Bom #MotoGP pod! Are there too many Spaniards in MotoGP/2/3? And if so, why are there so many Spanish riders/teams/rights-holders in motorcycle racing? We amble & ramble through this important subject like Don Quixote tilting at windmills oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
November 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New Oxley Bom #MotoGP pod! Are there too many Spaniards in MotoGP/2/3? And if so, why are there so many Spanish riders/teams/rights-holders in motorcycle racing? We amble & ramble through this important subject like Don Quixote tilting at windmills oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
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Got a 6-page interview in the new Bikemagazine with Dorna chief commercial officer Dan Rossomondo, looking into Liberty's plans for #MotoGP 😎✊
October 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Got a 6-page interview in the new Bikemagazine with Dorna chief commercial officer Dan Rossomondo, looking into Liberty's plans for #MotoGP 😎✊
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Got a 6-page interview with Alex Márquez in the new Bike magazine What it's like racing your brother in #MotoGP, how his move to Ducati set the template for Marc's & how he wanted to kill Marc when he was little but big bro was too big (all younger siblings will recognise this!)
September 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Got a 6-page interview with Alex Márquez in the new Bike magazine What it's like racing your brother in #MotoGP, how his move to Ducati set the template for Marc's & how he wanted to kill Marc when he was little but big bro was too big (all younger siblings will recognise this!)
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It's MotoGP's 64 million dollar question - did MM93 disrupt Rossi's title challenge at Phillip Island in 2015 or not?! We commentate on the race, from lights out to chequered flag to tell you what really went down that day oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
August 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
It's MotoGP's 64 million dollar question - did MM93 disrupt Rossi's title challenge at Phillip Island in 2015 or not?! We commentate on the race, from lights out to chequered flag to tell you what really went down that day oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
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Thought I'd finished interviewing people for my MM book, but yesterday had 25 mins with his physio, who worked full-time on his arm/shoulder rehab 💪💪 Then just had 25 minutes with Casey Stoner 🔥🔥🔥
I love my job 😎😎
matoxley.bigcartel.com
I love my job 😎😎
matoxley.bigcartel.com
matoxley
Books about motorcycle racing from racer-turned-writer Mat Oxley
matoxley.bigcartel.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Thought I'd finished interviewing people for my MM book, but yesterday had 25 mins with his physio, who worked full-time on his arm/shoulder rehab 💪💪 Then just had 25 minutes with Casey Stoner 🔥🔥🔥
I love my job 😎😎
matoxley.bigcartel.com
I love my job 😎😎
matoxley.bigcartel.com
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So good to see Harald Bartol again. He’s been fighting back from lung cancer and a stroke - and what a fightback! Bartol was a GP podium finisher in the 70s, basically Kaaden’s successor - a renowned two-stroke tuner and KTM team boss when the factory contested 125/250 GPs 💪
August 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
So good to see Harald Bartol again. He’s been fighting back from lung cancer and a stroke - and what a fightback! Bartol was a GP podium finisher in the 70s, basically Kaaden’s successor - a renowned two-stroke tuner and KTM team boss when the factory contested 125/250 GPs 💪
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New Oxley Bom MotoGP pod! We already did our summer hols breakdown of every MotoGP rider, so now we've got a manufacturer breakdown for you, from Yamaha, Honda, Aprilia & KTM to Ducati. What are Ducati doing right & what are the rest doing wrong?
oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
August 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New Oxley Bom MotoGP pod! We already did our summer hols breakdown of every MotoGP rider, so now we've got a manufacturer breakdown for you, from Yamaha, Honda, Aprilia & KTM to Ducati. What are Ducati doing right & what are the rest doing wrong?
oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
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New Oxley Bom MotoGP podcast lap record - first time into the 20s. Thanks to everyone for listening. You can get tons of extra content, including Friday/Saturday updates from every MotoGP round, by going to www.oxleybom.com and visiting our Patreon page 😎
August 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
New Oxley Bom MotoGP podcast lap record - first time into the 20s. Thanks to everyone for listening. You can get tons of extra content, including Friday/Saturday updates from every MotoGP round, by going to www.oxleybom.com and visiting our Patreon page 😎
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In MotoGP’s first decade, so-called dustbin fairings were banned because they were too slippery. At the end of next season, MotoGP’s current fairings will be banned because they generate too much downforce by being too draggy! So what's the story? www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/mot...
MotoGP aero bans: we’ve been here before
In MotoGP’s first decade, so-called dustbin fairings were banned because they were too slippery. At the end of next year, MotoGP’s current fairings will be banned because they generate too much downfo...
www.motorsportmagazine.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
In MotoGP’s first decade, so-called dustbin fairings were banned because they were too slippery. At the end of next season, MotoGP’s current fairings will be banned because they generate too much downforce by being too draggy! So what's the story? www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/mot...
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Liberty Media just completed its acquisition of MotoGP, so will this be better for fans or worse? Peter & I get stuck into this big question, with journo, commentator & former Dorna staffer Dennis Noyes, father of former Spanish superbike champ Kenny oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
July 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Liberty Media just completed its acquisition of MotoGP, so will this be better for fans or worse? Peter & I get stuck into this big question, with journo, commentator & former Dorna staffer Dennis Noyes, father of former Spanish superbike champ Kenny oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
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To celebrate Florence's role as the cradle of the Renaissance, today's Ducatis sport a lion and a fox (as Machiavelli taught in The Prince, to win, you need both the strength of the lion and the cunning of the fox) in a style inspired by Da Vinci's Profile of an Ancient Captain
June 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
To celebrate Florence's role as the cradle of the Renaissance, today's Ducatis sport a lion and a fox (as Machiavelli taught in The Prince, to win, you need both the strength of the lion and the cunning of the fox) in a style inspired by Da Vinci's Profile of an Ancient Captain
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Wait... What?! You're riding a 225mph, 300-plus horsepower MotoGP bike, artfully modulating throttle, brakes & everything else while your left hand has to contend with no less than 11 levers, buttons, switches & knobs. What do they all do?! Let's find out www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/mot...
What MotoGP handlebar buttons do: 'Now we have more, you can miss some!'
Riders have a lot to think about aboard their 300-horsepower MotoGP bikes, including 11 levers, buttons, switches and knobs on the left handlebar alone. No wonder they get confused!
www.motorsportmagazine.com
June 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Wait... What?! You're riding a 225mph, 300-plus horsepower MotoGP bike, artfully modulating throttle, brakes & everything else while your left hand has to contend with no less than 11 levers, buttons, switches & knobs. What do they all do?! Let's find out www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/mot...
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Got a 6-page interview with motorcycle-racer-turned-F1 champ Damon Hill in the new Bike magazine You'll find very few racers more open & interesting
June 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Got a 6-page interview with motorcycle-racer-turned-F1 champ Damon Hill in the new Bike magazine You'll find very few racers more open & interesting
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You can now pre-order my Marc Márquez biography, the first to tell his story from kid racing to the end of 2025. The book will tell you what makes him what he is via talking to everyone from rivals & childhood mentors to engineers & team managers %C3%A1rquez-the-biography-large-format-hardback
MARC MÁRQUEZ The Biography PRE-ORDER NOW!
THIS IS A PRE-ORDER - I will complete the book at the end of this season. Book will be published November. Those that order first, will get their...
matoxley.bigcartel.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
You can now pre-order my Marc Márquez biography, the first to tell his story from kid racing to the end of 2025. The book will tell you what makes him what he is via talking to everyone from rivals & childhood mentors to engineers & team managers %C3%A1rquez-the-biography-large-format-hardback
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In case you've not listened yet: in this week's Oxley Bom MotoGP pod, Peter & I tell you everything about THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MotoGP BIKE OF ALL TIME - the Honda NSR500. From Fast Freddie to Valentino Rossi via Doohan, Gardner, Lawson & Crivillé oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
May 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
In case you've not listened yet: in this week's Oxley Bom MotoGP pod, Peter & I tell you everything about THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MotoGP BIKE OF ALL TIME - the Honda NSR500. From Fast Freddie to Valentino Rossi via Doohan, Gardner, Lawson & Crivillé oxleybom.buzzsprout.com/2181509/epis...
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ICYM this yesterday - and even if you didn't because yesterday the story was missing its last 500 words 😅 so here's the whole thing for the first time 😎 This is HUGE MotoGP history – it's 50 years since Yamaha won its first MotoGP world championship www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/mot...
Huge MotoGP history – It's 50 years since Yamaha's first crown!
Fifty years ago this summer Yamaha made history by winning its first MotoGP championship, which also completed the domination of all categories by the two-stroke engine
www.motorsportmagazine.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ICYM this yesterday - and even if you didn't because yesterday the story was missing its last 500 words 😅 so here's the whole thing for the first time 😎 This is HUGE MotoGP history – it's 50 years since Yamaha won its first MotoGP world championship www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/mot...
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New Oxley Bom MotoGP podcast - Peter talks Le Mans - what's important at this stop-and-go layout? What do bike and rider need to cut fast laps. Peter tells all! For our Patreon supporters 😎😎✊✊
www.patreon.com/posts/peter-...
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May 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New Oxley Bom MotoGP podcast - Peter talks Le Mans - what's important at this stop-and-go layout? What do bike and rider need to cut fast laps. Peter tells all! For our Patreon supporters 😎😎✊✊
www.patreon.com/posts/peter-...
www.patreon.com/posts/peter-...
More of this please @sihbikes.bsky.social
This is the 46th Bol d’Or at Paul Ricard, Sept 1982, beautifully shot by PB’s (then Motorcycle Mechanics’) technical editor John Robinson. 100,000 crowd taking every vantage point. Pre-race entertainment by Kawasaki’s KDX450. Nice shoes, nice whiskey-throttle. Bike looks like an animal.
April 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
More of this please @sihbikes.bsky.social
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Wishing you all a peaceful holiday Sunday filled with joy & love rather than nightmares & trauma.
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#HappyEaster
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April 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wishing you all a peaceful holiday Sunday filled with joy & love rather than nightmares & trauma.
🐰 🥚 🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰
#HappyEaster
🐰 🥚 🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰 🥚🐰
#HappyEaster
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Had a really cool time taking a very very deep deep dive into the Isle of Man TT with Zack and Spurgeon of the Revzilla Highside Lowside podcast. Also on Apple, Spotify etc and YouTube 😎😎✊✊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_e...
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History, Danger & Speed: Deep Dive into the Isle of Man TT | Highside/Lowside S10E02
YouTube video by RevZilla
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April 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Had a really cool time taking a very very deep deep dive into the Isle of Man TT with Zack and Spurgeon of the Revzilla Highside Lowside podcast. Also on Apple, Spotify etc and YouTube 😎😎✊✊
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_e...
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
I wondered why all the sparrows suddenly went quiet. Not something you see in a city garden every day.
April 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I wondered why all the sparrows suddenly went quiet. Not something you see in a city garden every day.
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2025: Nigel Farage suggests that if it wasn't for him and Richard Tice, Labour would not take steps to renationalise British Steel
2016: That time Nigel Farage told us that the way to save British Steel was to leave the European Union
2016: That time Nigel Farage told us that the way to save British Steel was to leave the European Union
April 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
2025: Nigel Farage suggests that if it wasn't for him and Richard Tice, Labour would not take steps to renationalise British Steel
2016: That time Nigel Farage told us that the way to save British Steel was to leave the European Union
2016: That time Nigel Farage told us that the way to save British Steel was to leave the European Union
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It's the Le Mans 24 hours motorcycle race this weekend!! Click here to find out where to watch
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April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It's the Le Mans 24 hours motorcycle race this weekend!! Click here to find out where to watch
www.fimewc.com/en/news/wher...
www.fimewc.com/en/news/wher...
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FINAL CALL!
Come ride Scotland with @sihbikes.bsky.social & me on FEC Highland Fling #2
Arrive Tues 6th May, spend 3 mind-blowing days riding the best of Scotland, leave Sat 10th May. Great roads, great scenery, great company.
Don't miss out - bookings close tomoz (Fri 7th Mar)
👉 bit.ly/fecfling2
Come ride Scotland with @sihbikes.bsky.social & me on FEC Highland Fling #2
Arrive Tues 6th May, spend 3 mind-blowing days riding the best of Scotland, leave Sat 10th May. Great roads, great scenery, great company.
Don't miss out - bookings close tomoz (Fri 7th Mar)
👉 bit.ly/fecfling2
2025 Escorted Motorcycle Tour of the Scottish Highlands
2025 Motorcycle tour of Scotland, meals as specified included.
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March 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
FINAL CALL!
Come ride Scotland with @sihbikes.bsky.social & me on FEC Highland Fling #2
Arrive Tues 6th May, spend 3 mind-blowing days riding the best of Scotland, leave Sat 10th May. Great roads, great scenery, great company.
Don't miss out - bookings close tomoz (Fri 7th Mar)
👉 bit.ly/fecfling2
Come ride Scotland with @sihbikes.bsky.social & me on FEC Highland Fling #2
Arrive Tues 6th May, spend 3 mind-blowing days riding the best of Scotland, leave Sat 10th May. Great roads, great scenery, great company.
Don't miss out - bookings close tomoz (Fri 7th Mar)
👉 bit.ly/fecfling2