A Biker's Life: Misadventures on (and off) Two Wheels

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When you ride a motorbike you become part of a worldwide community of kindred spirits – those of us who will not be pacified by driving a car, but instead live for adventure, escape and the sheer thrill of the throttle". When you’re part of a world-wide community of kindred spirits, you can always call on other bikers in countries to help you. And I’ve never had anyone not answer that call for me. You have that serenity of solitude, but you know you’ll get talking with someone when you pull into a petrol station if you want to. Filming doesn’t change that. Cole caricatured, as "King Cole", in Vanity Fair, 19 August 1871. Museums [ edit ] Tiled mural at the V&A So it’s safe to say that Eton and his ‘stifling upbringing’ fuelled his rebellion. “It all went slightly wrong at Eton when I started smoking weed.” Henry Cole wrote a memoir: Wintle, Angela (3 February 2019). "TV star Henry Cole: 'I got drugs delivered by dispatch riders' " . Retrieved 20 July 2021– via www.telegraph.co.uk.

I can't think of anywhere I'd less like to be than in a car" writes Henry. "When you're driving a car, you're not taking part, you're a spectator. You're in a can; if it's cold you turn up the heating, if you're hungry you have a wine gum. You might be looking at what's going on, but you're definitely not a part of it." Today, Ronnie is best known for his regular appearances on Antiques Roadshow and describes the show as ‘the television equivalent of a warm bath’. ABR: Motorcycling has a habit of doing that to you. Are there any moments from your travels that stand-out above all others? The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations was held at the Crystal Palace in London’s Hyde Park from May 1 to October 15, 1851. It was a huge hit with the public and made a lot of money, thanks in part to how well Henry Cole ran it.I went and set that record. You don’t need to be a rich kid to do that. You just have to be a person with a little bit of pride and ambition. Cole sold the first commercial Christmas card in 1843. He asked the artist John Callcott Horsley to make the card’s picture. A fake name for Felix Summerly

In the fifth series of the show, he decided to set a Land Speed Record with a Baby Pendine 750cc Brough superior motorcycle which he later did after the restoration of the motorcycle by his friend and fellow partner Sam Lovegrove. The record is 104.298mph and he is currently a rider in the Brough Superior Team. Here’s a list of the shows Henry runs.

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For the adventurous, Henry rides out on some of his favourite roads, both in the UK and further afield, taking the opportunity to test different bits of machinery in different environments whilst imploring the viewer to get off their sofa and explore the great outdoors at the weekend. HC: The first time I rode a motorbike was a 250cc Honda single-cylinder in my mate’s shed. He said, ‘you’re into your bikes aren’t you, why not take this out?’ And I said, ‘sure, no problem,’ even though I’d never ridden one in my life. In 1843, artist John Callcott Horsley made the first Christmas card that was sold to the public. It was made for Henry Cole. In 2013 Henry Cole set a world land speed record for a pre-1955 750cc motorcycle, riding a Brough Superior on the Bonneville Salt Flats. [7] We don’t think we’re anywhere close to being an iconic British brand, but one day… You know, when I’m dead and gone one might come up at Bonhams and someone might pay some decent money for it and I’ll roll around in my grave and go, ‘I told you so!’” He is married with 2 kids:

The landscape is like Scotland on acid. Every single village you go into there’s a café with cake. The people are absolutely wondrous. And everywhere you go there are things to do and see that you won’t have tried before. New Zealand has everything, if I could live there I would. The best biking ever. This was the realisation of a dream I had since the age of 11 – to see one of my designs in production,” Willison told MCN. “That dream continues with 5Four Motorcycles. Our mantra at 5Four is: ‘If it doesn’t look great and make the motorcycle go faster – it isn’t going on the machine’.” More from MCN Bonython, Elizabeth and Anthony Burton The Great Exhibitor: The Life and Work of Henry Cole, London: V & A, 2003.

The renowned TV presenter comes from a renowned family. His great-great Uncle, William Ewart Gladstone was a British statesman and Liberal politician who served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Henry's passion for motorbikes began at the age of eight, when he was first introduced to a 'man cave'. His great-uncle Redbeard's corrugated iron shed was 'stuffed to the gills with old motorbikes' which Henry helped rebuild and ride. Since then, Henry's life can be charted through the bikes and journeys he has been on – from a stifling public-school education, via many years battling addiction, to the big-sky iconic routes Henry has ridden for over twenty series as presenter of numerous TV shows. Cole was married twice, first to actress Eileen Moore (b.1932) from 1954 until 1962 (when they divorced), and then to actress Penny Morrell (1967–2015, his death). [11] Cole had four children, two from each marriage. His son from his first marriage, Cris Cole, is a screenwriter for film and television.