Kevin Ash
| Kevin Charles Ash | |
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| Born | 10 December 1959 Ilford, United Kingdom |
| Died | 22 January 2013 (aged 53) George, Western Cape, South Africa |
| Occupation | Journalist, writer |
| Spouse | Caroline Quanjer (m. 1990) |
| Website | |
| ashonbikes |
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Kevin Ash (1959–2013) was a British motorcycle journalist and author, who contributed to The Daily Telegraph and to Motor Cycle News.
Covering technical as well as topical issues, Ash was described as "one of the key figures of the British motorcycle scene", "one of the world's leading motorcycle journalists", and "the of motorcycle correspondents."
Ash was born in Ilford, a town in north-east London, part of Greater London administrative area. He attended Ipswich School, then studied engineering at Imperial College. In 1990, he married Caroline Quanjer, of the Netherlands, with whom he had three daughters: Laurien, Kirsten and Ingrid, who were 20, 18 and 10 at the time of his death.
Before becoming a journalist, Ash was a motorcycle courier. He also participated in sidecar racing. In 1991, he was a founding contributor at the magazine Fast Bikes.
He then joined Motor Cycle News (MCN) as a road tester in 1993, following a road traffic accident involving a car and a BMW K1100RS ridden by (then) MCN road editor Chris Dabbs, who suffered life-changing injuries. Ash progressed to assistant editor until leaving in 1997 to become a freelance writer.
As a freelancer, he contributed to The Daily Telegraph for 15 years as its motorcycling correspondent.
Ash authored a number of motorcycle-related books, including BMW Motorcycles: The Evolution of Excellence and Ducati People: Looking into the Lives of the Men and Women Behind This Legendary Marque. He also authored a guide, Going Dutch, in the late 1990s on the parallel import of right-hand drive cars to the United Kingdom from other countries in the European Union.
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