motorcycle life
Motorcycle days – early start to beat the afternoon heat With the decent summer weather continuing and a warm spell back with us for a few days this week, it made sense to head out for a ride and to leave home early before the main heat of the day arrived. And that is exactly […]
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Return to the Emerald Isle – Part 4 motorcycle Ireland This is the fourth and final part of my Return to the Emerald Isle Blog. If you missed earlier posts you can go to Part 1 at this link. The weather was looking unsettled for potentially the first hour or so of the day and […]
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Return to the Emerald Isle – Part 3 In th last blog post (Part 2) I had written about the Return to the Emerald Isle trip and having stayed overnight at the terrific B&B Carigglea in Listowel. After a decent breakfast cooked for me by Aoife I set off for my Friday night destination in […]
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Return to the Emerald Isle – Part 2 I wrote in Part 1 that after crossing to Dublin from Holyhead I had made my way down to Clonmel in County Tipperary for my first overnight stay. After my stay in Clonmel (see Part 1) I headed for the Dingle Peninsula, but not before I had […]
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Return to the Emerald Isle I’m just back from another motorcycle road trip – this time it was a return to the Emerald Isle. After recently making my first motorcycle trip to Ireland (at the back end of May/early June) it was an easy decision to head back just a few weeks later. Having decided […]
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Back from a road trip to Ireland I was back this week from another terrific road trip to Ireland. You may recall I was there about six weeks ago (check this link if you haven’t see the posts from that trip). This time I covered more miles (about 1,600 in total) and it would be […]
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BMW F800R – new tyres Bridgestone T32s Until yesterday the tyres on my BMW F800R were the original stock Metzeler’s and had done about 7,500 miles or so. I haven’t had any other tyres on this bike so don’t have anything to make a sensible comparison with, but I can say the OEM Metzelers have […]
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Motorcycle road trip … the emerald isle Last month I took a road trip to Ireland and had an excellent time. Readers of the blog will know that before I had settled on the Ireland trip I had been considering going to Scotland. Scotland is of course a country I absolutely adore to travel to […]
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Motorcycle – summer days BMW RnineT Last time out I had done a few miles on the lovely Moto Guzzi V7 Cafe but this time it was my much loved BMW RnineT. In between times I had managed to finish and get posted my four part piece on the road trip to Ireland on the […]
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Motorcycle in Ireland – home time part 4 Being based in Kenmare for a couple of nights had been good and I had enjoyed an altogether excellent few days. But it was time to think about heading for home (click here if you missed Part 1). I wasn’t going directly home from Kenmare as I […]
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