Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Note: this post was first published in 2017. Because it has consistently proved to be popular I have ‘re-issued’ it with a few minor publishing and presentational amends. Can you really tour on a Kawasaki Vulcan 650s – the truth? Can you really tour on a Kawasaki Vulcan 650s and is this modern take […]
Road trip to Scotland and finding the ‘left road’ – Part 2 I started this blog post (in Part 1) by saying how pleased I was to be able to at long last get away on a bike, and continue to feel just a little that things are heading towards a return to some sort […]
Still not out on the bikes … Aaghh it’s enough to drive you mad. Plenty of decent weather in the last month or two, decent motorbikes in the garage and still no chance of me getting on one! I wrote about my knock to the knee a few weeks ago, well almost nine weeks ago […]
It’s June already and I can’t even say that my biking this year (2019) has been a stop/start affair. It started later than usual and then stopped and it’s remained stopped and I don’t quite have a date yet for when it might get started. It was a later than usual start to my biking […]
I’m just back from calling to see my brother Paul who was taking a refreshment break round about eight and a half hours into his latest run. To be fair to him he is putting a shift in, a 24 hour shift! You may well recall I wrote a few Blogs earlier in the year […]
Can you really tour on a Kawasaki Vulcan 650s? Can you really tour on a Kawasaki Vulcan 650s and is this modern take on a cruiser capable of a two up European tour? If you want the answer without having to read any further then the answer is yes. If you want to know a […]
This is the fourth and final part of the Blog posts following the recent road trip to Spain and Portugal that my wife and I made on the Kawasaki Vulcan. If you missed the earlier installments, you can get them at the following links: Part 1; Part 2 and Part 3. After setting off from […]
Here’s Part 3 of the write up following our recent road trip in Spain and Portugal, if you missed Part 1 you can read it here and if you can read Part 2 of the update here. After leaving Mirando de Douro we headed out of Portugal into the Province of Salamanca, with the small […]
Part 2 If you missed Part 1 of the Blog post following our recent trip to Spain and Portugal you can read it here. In that post I mentioned that after spending some time in the Picos mountains we headed off to Galicia, traveled to Santiago and the Atlantic coast and then headed down to […]
I’ve said for a long time that you can tour on any sort of bike, and ultimately it’s hard for me to imagine any bike that doesn’t come with some sort of compromise. Clearly depending what your expectations are and what you want from your bike will depend on the level of compromise. My earlier […]