Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Motorcycling in Scotland – 3 towns and 1,000miles – Part 3. This is the last part of the three part post following last week’s short Scottish trip. In Part 1 I wrote about travelling from the North West, through the Yorkshire Dales and my stay at The Buccleuch Arms Hotel in Moffat. If you missed Part […]
Motorcycling in Scotland – 3 towns and 1,000miles – Part 2. In Part 1 I wrote about travelling from the North West, through the Yorkshire Dales and staying at The Buccleuch Arms Hotel in Moffat. If you missed Part 1 – this link will take you back there. This second part of the 3 Towns […]
Motorcycling in Scotland – 3 towns and 1,000miles – Part 1. Anyone following my blogs either here or over on the rainycity.blog will know that I really do like visiting Scotland. The last time my wife and I were there was around about this time last year. On that occasion we stayed in Newton Stewart. […]
Sunny days – three towns and a thousand miles in Scotland. Just back from making the most of the good weather by taking a short trip to Scotland. I think it was August 2023 when I was last there (on a bike) This trip saw me take in some great roads (many of which I […]
BMW RnineT – the boxer at Barton and a coffee trip to Tillys With a welcome change in the weather I was out and about a couple of times in the last week. My previous ride was the week before when I made the short journey from home to MW Motorcycles to have the annual […]
Another day, another MoT, another year another journey ahead Another day, another MoT—so it was time to pay another visit to Alan and Chris at MW Motorcycles. It feels like I was just there! In fact, only a couple of weeks ago, my BMW RnineT was in for its annual service, MoT, and a fresh […]
BMW RnineT – daffodils and a boxer twin, spring has arrived. Spring is here and fresh from the annual MoT, service and new front tyre I was out on my magnificent BMW RnineT. In my last post I wrote about my RnineT being in at MW Motorcyles for its service. This in turn meant the […]
Spring – time for the RnineT service, MoT and new front tyre For some people the arrival of spring is often characterised by the arrival of warmer weather, the sight of daffodils blooming and of course more sunshine to lighten the day. The first day of spring in the UK was the 20th March, so […]
The sounds and the smells that tell us summer is on the way. There’s nothing quite like the smell of cut grass, especially after the first cut of Spring. There is something quite uplifting about the freshness of that smell. Couple that smell with the lifting of the cold and grey of winter and the […]
Shiny metal at the bike dealers Enfield, Voge and Moto Guzzi My wife and I passed sometime last week by taking a wander around a couple of bike dealers that fairly local to us in the North West. Both are dealers from whom I have bought bikes in the past. One of them was a […]