riding bikes and doing other things
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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Yesterday was MoT and service time for my Kawasaki (see the previous post here) and with it still being a week or two away before Im back riding, I arranged for the guys from MW Motorcycles to pick my bike up. The work was routine and my bike was dropped back home later that day, […]
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Well it’s almost 11 weeks since the knee fracture and over 12 weeks since I was last out on one of my bikes and (even that was delayed due to recovery from shoulder surgery) but at last the prospect of getting back on a bike is within sight. After having my leg in a straight […]
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Aaghh it’s enough to drive you mad. Plenty of decent weather in the last month or two, decent motorbikes in the garage and still no chance of me getting on one! I wrote about my knock to the knee a few weeks ago, well almost nine weeks ago now. and since then have posted a […]
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Every now and again I take a look at a short clip heading towards Amalfi on the Sorrento/Amalfi coast road. This one was done in 2015 on a Kawasaki Z1000 SX – it’s a decent bit of road, with pleasant views, especially if you catch it when it’s reasonably quiet You can see the short […]
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Couldn’t help but notice that there have been plenty of stories across the internet in the last week or so following the release of data from the European Motorcycle Manufacturers Association that show significant increases in sales of new motorbikes (in Europe) when compared to the same period last year – which seems to be […]
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