riding bikes and doing other things
INSTAGRAM UPDATE – MOTORBIKES BLOG I have recently set up a separate Instagram page to accompany this motorbikes blog. You can find and follow it here: motorbikefotos INSTAGRAM UPDATE – RAINY CITY PHOTO BLOG I also have a general blog at rainycityphotos.blog. You can visit that blog by clicking this link and follow the […]
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What’s happening and what’s the plan for 2021? There’s no question that 2020 fell somewhat short of being the best of years for many people and for many things – including of course not a great year for getting out on a motorbike. Covid 19 and the global pandemic pretty much saw to that. A […]
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Any ride is better than no ride Time for the annual motorcycle MoT and a short ride on the BMW 800R. On the basis that any ride is better than no ride even if it is just a pretty short ride this was good to do. Even this short trip earleir this week to get […]
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Back on the bike With the continued success of the UK vaccination programme it looks like getting out on the bike on a regular basis is not too far away. With that in mind I have one of my bikes booked in for it’s first MoT this coming Monday -so for the first time in […]
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Available in paperback and ebook format A year or two back I wrote a couple of motorcycle travel books/travel journals. The books describe solo trips in Europe and are written very much from a bikers perspective rather than as a professional travel writer/journalist. The books are an easy read and capture the tale of a […]
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I had written a few weeks back about an electrical problem I had with the Guzzi. At the time of writing that post, I had said I was unsure what the problem was, but that my instincts were leaning to it being a problem with the battery. I took the bike in to the fabulous […]
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A chance meeting A few weeks ago I had called to the J&S store in Northwich and got chatting to a fellow biker. We had a general chat about this and that and then got onto talking about trips and travels. It turned out that Rob had a trip to Scotland coming up and as […]
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A damp and misty start to the day didn’t bode too well for getting out for a few hours on the bike. I was particularly keen to get out, the weather forecast for the following days, in fact right into the following week wasn’t looking so good and as we head into October the decent […]
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There have been a couple of days in recent weeks, that despite the onset of Autumn have made for pretty much ideal riding conditions – and I’ve been able to get out on each of my bikes, although the Moto Guzzi is currently in my local bike workshop having an electrical issue sorted, and which […]
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CLICK HERE FOR LATEST BLOG POSTS Moto Guzzi problems I’ve had my Moto Guzzi V7 Cafe Classic from new, which I think was in 2012 and it’s been a really good bike. In the time I have had it, I have never had any significant faults or issues, although in the early days I had […]
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