July, 2018 - motorbikes.blog

road trip coming up …

22/07/2018

Less than 48 hours to the start of my 2018 Road Trip … and it’s fair to say I’m now starting to get just a little excited.

Difficult family circumstances meant that I had to cancel and re-schedule a road trip that I was due to set off on at the start of this month (July). The new start date for the trip is now looming and in between sorting a whole range of things out that followed the passing of my […]

fair play to DFDS … making things easier

07/07/2018

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I wrote last week about the remarkable service that I received from Brittany Ferries when I had to cancel and re-schedule a trip following my Father passing away. My wife and I had another motorbike trip scheduled (this time with DFDS)_which was for a return journey from Dunkerque to Dover. The knock on effect of […]

RnineT – best bike ever?

04/07/2018

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For various reasons I have been up and down the motorways to Cardiff and back a great deal, and much more than usual in the last six weeks or so. Give or take a few miles it’s the best part of a 400 mile round trip. If you get the timing right and when traveling […]

bit of RnineT time

01/07/2018

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Couldn’t say no really to a few miles on the RnineT yesterday – probably only did about 100 miles all so all told, but the superb weather made it worthwhile and I went crazy at my regular coffee stop and had two mugs of coffee instead of my normal one cup – I know living […]