Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Time for coffee 120 mile round trip for a coffee on the BMW RnineT Last time I was out on a bike was my recent (and excellent) trip to Scotland on my BMW F800R. Over the weekend I was out again. On this occasion it wasn’t a long trip or one that involved nights away […]
Road trip to Scotland and finding the ‘left road’ – Part 1 Although we are not yet fully free of all the restrictions the series of lockdowns have imposed on us over the last 15 months or so, it is fair to say that many areas of daily life have started the gradual return to […]
Photo collages Circumstances have been such that a lack of riding has led me to post this assortment of collages. The collages have typically been used as the featured images for a number of previous blog posts. The continued (slow) recovery from last months knee surgery has kept me off any of the bikes longer […]
Bit of a look back I have recently changed the Instagram name I use for my bike pictures. The change to an Instagram page specifically for my bike pictures, rather than the generic one I use for all of my pictures (including bikes) meant I was starting from scratch with the bike pictures. Just at […]
INSTAGRAM UPDATE – MOTORBIKES BLOG I have recently set up a separate Instagram page to accompany this motorbikes blog. You can find and follow it here: motorbikefotos INSTAGRAM UPDATE – RAINY CITY PHOTO BLOG I also have a general blog at rainycityphotos.blog. You can visit that blog by clicking this link and follow the […]
What’s happening and what’s the plan for 2021? There’s no question that 2020 fell somewhat short of being the best of years for many people and for many things – including of course not a great year for getting out on a motorbike. Covid 19 and the global pandemic pretty much saw to that. A […]
Back on the bike With the continued success of the UK vaccination programme it looks like getting out on the bike on a regular basis is not too far away. With that in mind I have one of my bikes booked in for it’s first MoT this coming Monday -so for the first time in […]
I had written a few weeks back about an electrical problem I had with the Guzzi. At the time of writing that post, I had said I was unsure what the problem was, but that my instincts were leaning to it being a problem with the battery. I took the bike in to the fabulous […]
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 […]