riding bikes and doing other things
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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Back in August of last year (2016) I published my first book, What if you don’t break down? – a tale of my 5,000 mile motorcycle trip in central Europe, across Northern Spain then down the Mediterranean side of Italy to Pompeii and then to the Sorrento/Amalfi coast. After that, I rode across to the […]
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With dull, cold and grey weather throughout January, it’s been hard over the last few weeks not to think about warmer weather and to start looking ahead to 2017 on the bikes, which has also prompted me to start writing a series of Blog posts to capture my year on the bikes.V7V Inevitably there will […]
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A short while back I got a book bought for me – Motorcycle Dream Garages. It’s a lovely coffee table type book and I reckon most bikers would be happy to have a copy, if only to see how the other half lives! The book itself is a 190 page hardback edition written by Lee […]
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