Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Four in a row: and getting ready for sunshine and warm roads This summer seems to have had so many similarities to the summer of 2023 – not enough sunshine and way too much rain. You may recall that last year I had planned, and booked, a couple of weeks in Ireland and Scotland. Such […]
Moto Guzzi V7 750 Cafe Racer the beauty of an Italian V twin I posted the other day about my BMW RnineT. That post was to mark the 7th anniversary of my ownership of that bike. In that post I said the only constant in the garage and the only bike that was here before […]
Motorcycling in the Emerald Isle – make life a ride. Part 4. Each time I have been to Ireland I have made the trip through Killarney National Park and onto the Healy Pass.This trip was to be no exception. The Healy Pass is beautiful and takes you over the county line between Kerry and Cork. […]
Motorcycling in the Emerald Isle – make life a ride. Part 2. Breakfast was good at the Kees Hotel and I had decided over coffee that I would head off to Killybegs a town in County Donegal and the largest fishing port in the country. Location wise it’s to the north of Donegal Bay, which […]
Motorcycling in the Emerald Isle – make life a ride. Part 1. Last time I was in Ireland was just over a year ago, when I travelled there on my BMW F800R. That had been my fourth trip to Ireland in the 12 months prior to that. The shift in the weather and my wife’s […]
BMW RnineT fine day for a ride, coffee, sunshine & 200 miles I had been so close to heading to Ireland last week. I had provisionally identified accommodation for a couple of nights in the coastal town of Killrush in County Clare and then a couple of nights in Bantry down in Cork. The ferry […]
Summer arrived again just for one day – so out on the RnineT Summer 2024 already seems to have a similar feel to summer 2023. Seemingly endless rain day after day is really making biking more miss than hit. You might recall that last year (around about this time) I cancelled my planned trip to […]
Rolling back the years – BSA, Honda & Moto Guzzi at Broxton. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about meeting a guy called Ian who was on his pretty impressive Triumph TR6 and who I had met when I stopped at the Broxton Butty Van (get directions here) located behind the Edgerton Arms in […]
Superb day on the BMW F900 XR – out and about in North Wales The change in the weather in the last week was welcome and I intended to make the most of it. On the previous day my wife and I had headed off (in the car) to Ambleside in the Lake District, but […]
Suns out, the bikes are out and the roads are dry …for now After leaving the Broxton butty van stop and having chatted to Ian about his very decent Triumph TR6 (see previous post here) I headed on and took a non direct route back towards Whitchurch before heading for home. On the way I […]