Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
BMW F900 XR – short motorcycle trip to Scotland and the A708 (Part 2) In Part 1 of this post about my short trip north of the border to Scotland I finished off by mentioning my stay at the decent Southfield Hotel in Girvan. I followed my night in Girvan by travelling for an overnight […]
BMW F900 XR TE, first rides, impressions & thoughts the truth I wrote a few days ago about saying goodbye to my BMW F800R and welcoming the F900XR. At the time of writing that post I had only managed one short ride from the showroom. Although I enjoyed the ride it wasn’t enough to form […]
Time to say goodbye to the understated but decent BMW F800R I bought my BMW F800R back in August 2020, now just about three years on it’s time to say goodbye to the F800. I bought the bike from Derby Kawasaki a dealership that I had sort of randomly stumbled across when browsing the web […]
Motorcycle in Ireland County Kerry, County Cork & Mizen Head Previously I wrote about heading for Mulranny in County Mayo and then about having a fabulous day around Achill Island. In this third and final post of this tripm after leaving Mary’s I head for an overnight stay in the town of Killarney then the […]
Motorcycle in Ireland – enjoying the roads of County Mayo This is the second part of this short series of blog posts ‘Motorcycle in Ireland’. If you missed Part 1 you can click back for it at this link. In that first part I had mentioned this was a fairly short trip due to other […]
Motorcycle in Ireland, back to the roads of the Emerald Isle Good weather and some free time had me thinking about where to go for a short break – and to be honest on this occasion I wasn’t really thinking of anywhere other than Scotland or Ireland. Regular readers will know I was in Ireland […]
Motorbike trip to Ireland – new post coming soon I have just got back from another excellent motorbike trip to Ireland. Last years trip in June was so good that I wanted to return before I had even come home. I did in fact return, and if you follow this blog you will have seen […]
BMW motorbikes – heading for Spring and the biking season It seems to be taking an age this year for the weather to turn, and it feels like it’s been colder and wetter for much longer into this year than in recent years. We can’t control the weather, it is what it is, but there […]
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 […]
Return to the Emerald Isle – Part 3 In the 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 […]