We nipped out for a leisurely evening drive earlier this week and stopped off at a Cheshire pub, as we were leaving we saw an open garage in the pub grounds (which I think belongs to the landlord), once I had spotted a couple of bikes we wandered over for a quick look and a […]
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Warm sunshine, blue sky and a few hours to spare made for an ideal recipe to roll the Moto Guzzi V7 out of the garage yesterday and to head out for a coffee. Other afternoon commitments meant that I didn’t have a full day – but I was happy enough with the few hours I […]
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You never quite know what you are going to stumble on, and yesterday evening as I was returning from a walk I saw a couple pulling up outside their home pulling a trailer on the back of their 4×4 – and on that trailer was an intriguing old bike. Perhaps not surprisingly and like most […]
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Anyone that reads my Blog will know that I’m always happy to say when I’ve had great service or found somewhere decent and this week was no exception to the excellent service that I always get when I call into MW Motorcycles. This particular visit was for the annual MoT for my Moto Guzzi V7 […]
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A friend of mine called into the BMW Motorrad dealer in Chester last week and saw a rather stunning BMW RnineT. He was good enough to take a few snaps of the bike and sent them onto me – this one really is a stunner. I had a quick Google search on the web and […]
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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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