riding bikes and doing other things
I have recently received a terrific new book as a gift – ‘The Complete Book of BMW Motorcycles’. It’s a book that covers all models from 1923 to 2015 … and that’s a lot of models to cover. It’s a well structured publication and takes the reader through the early days and origins of the […]
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I’ve recently set up a new blog – rainycity.blog, It wont necceesarily be of interest to all readers of the motorbikes blog as it’s a blog that reflects one of my other interests – photography, and as such is not motorbike specific but if you like looking at pictures or maybe just at a loose […]
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Just a short post to wish visitors to the motorbikes blog a Merry Christmas along with best wishes for the New Year. There have been some technical issues with site security in recent weeks, but I’m very pleased to say that these are now resolved. If you want to receive automatic notifications of new posts […]
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Following the visit to the Motorcycle Live 2019 show in Birmingham I posted Part 1 of the Blog, (you can see that here if you missed it). This second part has another set of pictures from the show. The first set below are of a decent display of bikes ridden by the late and legendary […]
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It’s November so it’s the time of year to make the trip down the M6 to the NEC in Birmingham to the annual Motorcycle Live show. As in previous years I made the trip with my nephew Andy – and it’s fair to say we both thought this years show was well worth making the […]
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I wrote in the previous Blog post about what a miserable year 2019 had been from a biking perspective I alos said that despite that I was already looking forward to 2020. All things being equal I will have made a reasonable recovery and a decent level of progress that will allow me to enjoy […]
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By any measure 2019 has been a pretty miserable year in terms of biking for me. Shoulder surgery in March and then just as I was well on with the recovery from that … a broken knee and a partially ruptured tendon in May set the tone for pretty much the rest of the year […]
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After waiting 107 days to get back on a bike (see my recent Blog post here), I was out on the bike again during the week making it two rides within a few days of each other, and of necessity it was out on the Kawasaki again. I headed off to Jeppo’s for a coffee […]
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107 days after last being on a bike and 90 days after a knee fracture – yesterday saw me out on a bike at long last. There wasnt really a choice of bikes to take – only the Vulcan with it’s ‘foot forward’ controls made sense the leg isnt quite good eough to make the […]
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Despite summer having well and truly arrived in the UK, it’s now 96 days since I was last on a bike (see the post here). Circumstances well beyond my control have seen to that. It had been a pretty slow start to the biking year due to shoulder surgery, and just when the physio and […]
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