Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
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 […]
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 […]
Somewhere over the rainbow Cheshire roads on the BMW RnineT I mentioned in my last post that my magnificent BMW RnineT had been in my local motorcycle workshop (MW Motorcycles) for its annual MoT. A couple of days later with sunshine and bright blue sky I headed out for a short ride. Although the shy […]
It’s that time of the year motorcycle MoT at MW Motorcycles. It’s that time of the year when the weather starts to improve and I get to look forward to getting out on the bikes again. A combination of personal commitments, time of year, bad weather, DiY work at home and a couple of decent […]
Motorcycle Live 2022 Picture Post It was the return of the Motorcycle Live show at the NEC in Birmingham this month, and I was there last week for an enjoyable visit with my nephew. To recap on an earlier post, it’s a show that has has been around since 1981 but a show that wasn’t […]
Motorcycle Live Birmingham November 2022 November sees the Motorcycle Live show return to the NEC in Birmingham. It’s a bike show that has really has been around for some time, in fact it has been in existence since 1981. Although it’s been going for over 40 years, it hasn’t always been called Motorcycle Live. In […]
Motorcycling and the last days of summer on the BMW R9T The ‘last days of summer’, the ‘last knockings of the good weather’ are words and sentiments that a number of years ago I wouldn’t have expected to be writing at this time of years as the calendar just about gets ready to tip over […]
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 […]
Return to the Emerald Isle – Part 2 I wrote in Part 1 that after crossing to Dublin from Holyhead I had made my way down to Clonmel in County Tipperary for my first overnight stay. After my stay in Clonmel (see Part 1) I headed for the Dingle Peninsula, but not before I had […]