It’s been a little quieter than usual on the Blog for the last couple of weeks, as my wife and I have been away on a road trip in Spain and Portugal. The trip was fantastic, glorious roads and weather and all pretty enjoyable. I’ll catch up and post updates over the next few days […]
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Over the years the excitement and pleasure of collecting a new bike has never lessened for me, and riding my Z1000 SX down to the Williams BMW dealership in Manchester earlier this week was no different. The weather over the last few days had been decent, and it was still decent as I clipped the […]
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I’ve just about to trade one of the best bikes I’ve ever had. The Kawasaki Z1000 SX I have had for the last three and a quarter years or so has quite simply been superb from the day I got it back in May 2014 until the day I said goodbye to it. It was […]
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A short while ago I wrote a Blog post about luggage on the Kawasaki Vulcan S (650), you can read about that here In that post I wrote about the difficulty my wife and I were having in finding luggage that we thought was suitable for the bike, quite a contrast to the OEM luggage […]
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With sandwiches and coffee made and packed and with the prospect of a decent days weather we were on our way on the Vulcan for before 09:30. A cracking good day, good roads, fabulous scenery and a little over 200 miles done and we were home by around 17:15. We did the first 20 or […]
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It was the annual Llangollen Motorcycle Festival at weekend (Llanfest 2017) and a show that I went to last year and really enjoyed. To be honest it was touch and go as to whether we went this year due to the continuing erratic weather that we have been having. Given the nature of the show […]
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In the last few years quite a few helmet manufacturers have been producing helmets with a flip down dark/tinted internal visor. It was one of those things that when I first saw it I couldn’t help but wonder why it hadn’t been done earlier. It certainly seemed a better (and easier) option than having to […]
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For the back end of my trip I had decided to spend two nights in the pretty German town of Saarburg, close to the Luxembourg border leaving me with just one final stop over that I planned to make somewhere reasonably close to the Dunkirk for the DFDS ferry home a few days later. The […]
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After staying in Bad Wiessee in Germany I decided to head for Lake Konstanz and booked a place in the small German village of Bematingen. It was another decent day, pleasant roads and easy and relaxed riding in good weather. By this time I definitely had started to get that feeling that I was at […]
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I had decided that I would head back into Slovenia and stay at a place called Lokve a short distance from Nova Gorica. The roads from Udbina, (which I wrote about in Part 4) were decent and initially took me past a fairly large military installation that looked to still be in use and then […]
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