9/19/2023 0 Comments Keith flintI sold that to buy another Blade, which TTS tuned and track prepared for me. He was just down the road from me in Chelmsford. “Nick Morgan (Managing Director of MSS Performance) tuned it for me. Then I got it Repsol’d because I became a massive Mick Doohan fan. “When I joined the band and started to earn a bit of dollar, I got the 1992 FireBlade when it first came out. “I turned it from something really unexpectedly exciting, that was really great fun to ride over to all the French endurance races on, and I screwed it up by thinking that me and my Demon Tweeks catalogue was better than some Japanese designer. Absolutely f**king mint, and I decided to pump it up with an 1190 big bore kit, loads more bits and pieces and on it, and I f**ked the living daylights out of it. “One bike I really regret getting rid of was a really mint GSX1100 EFE. There was an RD50 in there somewhere, too.” “I used to take my 50 round there, then ride the RD400 on a Sunday down to Southend and places like that. I bought the first one when I was 15, and rented a garage off an old girl on the estate to keep it in. “I’d do them up and get the tanks and frames sprayed up and fit Allspeed exhausts to make them look special. That got traded in for an RD80LC, and then an RD400. “The first bike I ever had was a derestricted R-reg Fizzie (Yamaha FS1-E). In your mind you know when you’re on it and you’re just flowing.” When you’re scratching, it’s that buzz of doing something you love, that freedom. There was never any doubt in my mind as a teenager looking for some freedom that I was going to jump onto a moped as soon as I could and pass my test. “I used to pay them a couple of quid to take me out for a spin on the back, and we’d ride to all the bike meets. “I have two older brothers, one of whom was a Z9 custom biker and the other who was a bit more into his sportsbikes Powervalves and then progressing to GSX-Rs. In celebration of his illustrious career, we are taking a look back at Flint’s biking history, in an interview first published in 2014. With a biking history ranging from a Yamaha Fizzie, to his very-own Moto2 bike, the London-born star appeared in MCN on numerous occassions pursuing his own racing career and even successfully running his own teams on both short circuits and on the roads. We thank you for respecting the privacy of all concerned at this time. It is with deepest shock and sadness that we can confirm the death of our brother and best friend Keith Flint.
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