motorcycle life
Motorcycle days – early start to beat the afternoon heat With the decent summer weather continuing and a warm spell back with us for a few days this week, it made sense to head out for a ride and to leave home early before the main heat of the day arrived. And that is exactly […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Return to the Emerald Isle I’m just back from another motorcycle road trip – this time it was a return to the Emerald Isle. After recently making my first motorcycle trip to Ireland (at the back end of May/early June) it was an easy decision to head back just a few weeks later. Having decided […]
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Back from a road trip to Ireland I was back this week from another terrific road trip to Ireland. You may recall I was there about six weeks ago (check this link if you haven’t see the posts from that trip). This time I covered more miles (about 1,600 in total) and it would be […]
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BMW F800R – new tyres Bridgestone T32s Until yesterday the tyres on my BMW F800R were the original stock Metzeler’s and had done about 7,500 miles or so. I haven’t had any other tyres on this bike so don’t have anything to make a sensible comparison with, but I can say the OEM Metzelers have […]
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Motorcycle in Ireland – home time part 4 Being based in Kenmare for a couple of nights had been good and I had enjoyed an altogether excellent few days. But it was time to think about heading for home (click here if you missed Part 1). I wasn’t going directly home from Kenmare as I […]
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Motorcycle in Ireland – part 3 Ring of Beara Previous posts from this Ireland trip can be found at the previously published Part One and Part Two respectively. This particular blog post features a really enjoyable day on a motorbike that finished off with me taking in the absolutely excellent Healy Pass. My trip to […]
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Motorcycle in Ireland – Wild Atlantic Way and Ring of Kerry For as many years as I can recall I have been managing to get to Scotland on one of my bikes, most years I have managed to make at least a couple of trips there. Last year I had a couple of superb Scotland […]
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Moto Guzzi V7 Cafe Classic- picture post Picture and blog wise it still feels as though I am catching up from my trip to Ireland earlier this month – it’s the trip I mentioned in my last post (at this link). I have made a start on the blog post(s). All the pictures are sorted […]
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