Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Got to love a bargain … especially when it’s connected to motorbikes I suppose most people like to find a bargain, and anyone that has followed this blog over the years may recall posts on previous occasions when I have picked up old bike books and magazines and I have a small but decent collection […]
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Photo collages Circumstances have been such that a lack of riding has led me to post this assortment of collages. The collages have typically been used as the featured images for a number of previous blog posts. The continued (slow) recovery from last months knee surgery has kept me off any of the bikes longer […]
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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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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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I have recently received a terrific new book as a gift – ‘The Complete Book of BMW Motorcycles’. It’s a book that covers all models from 1923 to 2015 … and that’s a lot of models to cover. It’s a well structured publication and takes the reader through the early days and origins of the […]
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For some time now when ever my wife and I are out, if we see an antique shop/antique emporium we are total suckers for a browse around. With us both being ‘children of the 1950s’ there’s something slightly odd and slightly amusing about seeing so many household things things that were a normal everyday part […]
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I recently wrote a Blog post after I had spotted and bought a couple of booklets in an antique shop/emporium type place, if you missed it you can read it by clicking this link. The first of the booklets is called Advice for the Road (covered in the earlier post), the second is called High […]
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Sometimes the essence of sound advice doesn’t really change. Once again this was illustrated to me after I had picked up a couple of old pamphlets from an antique shop/emporium type place last week. Over the last couple of years I have picked up a couple of old motorcycling related books and always find it […]
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The motorcycle travel book ‘Superbike Across Europe’ is available as a free download for a limited time period only. You can get it here The motorcycle travel book What if I Dont Break Down is also available on Amazon (Paid) in ebook and paperback format. You can get the ebook here and the paperback here.
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Author interview with travel writer and motorbike enthusiast Tony Burns. Source: Tattooed Mummy’s Randoms: Wordy Wednesday with Tony Burns
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