I wrote in the previous post that with the onset of summer and the all round improvement in the weather I was able to get out on the bikes this week – first up was few miles on the RnineT (see the post here). Yesterday it was time to get the Kawasaki Vulcan S out […]
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Yesterday I was down at the BMW Motarad dealer in Manchester (Williams), for a routine service on my RnineT. The standard of service was exemplary and just as I have experienced each time that I have been in there. The service took the amount of time that I had expected, which was only about 90 […]
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Sometimes the essence of sound advice doesn’t really change. Once again this was illustrated to me after I had picked up a couple of old pamphlets from an antique shop/emporium type place last week. Over the last couple of years I have picked up a couple of old motorcycling related books and always find it […]
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For a good while now there have been two bikes shows that I have tended to visit each year: The NEC show in Birmingham and the Manchester Bike Shows. In each of the last two years I have added the Llanfest (Llangollen Bike Festival) to my list – and in general each of the shows […]
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Roll on Spring: It’s still that time of year when you can at last start to see just the faintest glimmer of an end to the short days, the wet and cold weather and generally start to think about getting some miles in on the bike(s), and this Blog comes alive again. It’s not yet […]
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I’m just back from calling to see my brother Paul who was taking a refreshment break round about eight and a half hours into his latest run. To be fair to him he is putting a shift in, a 24 hour shift! You may well recall I wrote a few Blogs earlier in the year […]
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I wrote about my visit to Motorcycle Live 2017 at the NEC in Part One, if you missed it you can get it here. I haven’t got a great deal more to say about the show, but I have got more pictures to post. In Part One I mentioned a number of the manufacturers stands […]
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Once again it was the annual motorcycle show – Motorcycle Live, at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Its a show I’ve gone to on a pretty regular basis for a good number of years now, and after it dropping off a little (in my opinion) a few years ago it seems to have got […]
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With the untypical weather the UK is currently having I made the most of it yesterday and put in a decent shift on the nineT – I’ve not done loads of miles on this bike yet – but I’m liking it more every time I get on it and the 192 miles before the fuel […]
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Part of the ritual to saying goodbye to the Kawasaki Z1000 SX in September was just like the ritual that takes place every time I change one of my bikes … the inevitable removal for re-sale of the after market parts that I have added. Having changed the Z1000 for the BMW RnineT it was […]
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