A nice surprise...

 

I went in to the Visor Down offices recently to shoot some product for the magazine and low and behold spotted this front kicking around on the desk. I thought it looked familiar; Jamie Witham on a Triumph 675 out in the country lanes.  Magazines are always looking forward and shooting for them often means you forget what has been published in the rush to get the next one out of the door. So it was a nice surprise when Barry the art director confirmed it was, in fact, my image. And that I had scored the editorial page image and a main road test feature - the Triumph, Ducati 848 and Suzuki GSX-R750- inside. The feature was shot on the Mallory Park track and then I got half an hour of Jamie ragging the Triumph up and down for the cover before he had to shoot off for a meeting or summat. I've shot a fair bit of motorbikes but this is the first cover so I was chuffed to say the least.

Casy Stoner Desmo replica for TWO mag.

Ducati Desmo Stoner Rep - Images by Geoff Waugh

You know you have something special when the road tester is so nervous he can hardly speak.
This racing Ducati wasn't on loan from a company test fleet, it belonged to a real live punter. And it is worth 55 Grand! Dropping this beauty would be very expensive - forget about the embarrassment. We treated it with the respect it deserved. Unfortunately, people that lived on the leafy roads around Crewe weren't given the same amount of love; have you heard those pipes?!! A great day out.