Random Home presents the audiobook release of Never Express Hardly ever, written and browse by Nick Harris.

‘The unmistakable tone of voice of Moto GP’ – Valentino Rossi

As ‘The Tone of voice’ of motorbike racing for forty years, commentator Nick Harris became the biggest star not on two wheels in the paddock, and this is his mostly eye-witness, white-knuckle account of MotoGP’s scorching seventy-year background.

The storyplot starts within the Isle of Guy in 1949, when Geoff Duke, with his slicked-back hair and one-piece black about Never Say Never: The Inside Story from the Motorcycle World Championships leathers, became the nation’s hero, defying the odds and winning the most dangerous race in the world on a British-built Norton. Just over ten years later at Mallory Recreation area, another British champ and one of the biggest riders of all time Mike Hailwood screamed previous a Nick Harris on his 250cc Honda, and a life-long enthusiasm was born.

Harris has been at the centre of the activity for decades, getting to know the riders while people, seeings feuds unfold, champions made, professions and sometimes lives ended. We’ll start to see the biggest podium celebrities close up, from Barry Sheene and Kenny Roberts to Valentino Rossi, and we’ll meet the mechanics behind them, the manufacturers who poured a huge number into the groups, as well as the organisers who, in the early days, ruthlessly compromised rider protection for income. The drama offers often been as anxious off the monitor as onto it.

This is the book the motorcycling world continues to be waiting for.