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Motorcycle Travel books – available in paperback and ebook version

December 16, 2020
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Available in paperback and ebook format A year or two back I wrote a couple of motorcycle travel books/travel journals.  The books describe solo trips in Europe and are written very much from a bikers perspective rather than as a professional travel writer/journalist. The books are an easy read and capture the tale of a […]

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uk motorcycling – arnside, cumbria & the dales …

June 25, 2020
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The prospect of superb weather along with a modest amount of effort to make a decent route set the potential for a decent days biking … and I wasn’t disappointed. Yesterday I was off and on the road before 07:30 am and headed out towards Waddington and Dunsop Bridge in the Ribble Valey – north […]

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lockdown lookback – motorbike years part 13…

June 15, 2020
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Co-incidentally as the Lockdown in the UK eases with most shops being able to open (as long as they meet the correct criteria), then I have arrived at the final part of my Lockdown Lookback series. This last part covers a trip to Spain and Portugal in 2018 and with just a ferry booked to […]

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another dry day, another dry ride …

June 10, 2020
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Although the weather was much greyer and much cooler than of late it was dry and so with the prospect or poorer weather in the coming day I got the BMW out and head for the Forrest of Bowland area – an exceptioanlly pretty part of the UK – only did about 150 or so […]

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lockdown lookback – motorbike years part 11…

June 7, 2020
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As Lockdown restrictions are eased, and (hopefully) we head towards the latter stages of the restrictions, this post sees me arrive towards the end of my Lockdown Lookback series with Part 11. If you missed Part 10 you can read it here.  Links to earlier parts in the Lockdown Lookback series (parts 1 to 9) […]

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lockdown lookback – motorbike years part 10

May 23, 2020
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As the lockdown continues in the UK I have continued to cast my mind back to previous years biking and trips and this lockdown post reflects back to 2017. 2017 was quite simply a standout year for my biking. There was the usual general activity that included the Manchester and NEC bike shows and another […]

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lockdown lookback – motorbike years part 9

May 14, 2020
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Part 9 of this series moves the lockdown lookback onto 2016.  This was another year that turned out to be a pretty decent biking year and saw the addition of another new bike to the garage … it was the year that saw my wife return to ride pillion on a bike for the first […]

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lockdown lookback – motorbike years part 8

May 12, 2020
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  This post goes back to a 5,000 mile European trip that I did in 2015 and that I had mentioned in the previous Lockdown Lookback Part 7.  In some respects it was a trip of two parts – the first part was with three friends making our way from the Spanish port of Bilbao, […]

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lockdown lookback – motorbike years part 7…

May 10, 2020
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Part 7 of this series of ‘lookback’s continnues with from Part 6 with biking activity from 2013 before moving onto 2014. You can find Part 8 here. This was another good and really enjoyable biking period, it was also a time that saw another another change of bike. I loved the Honda CB1000 R. In […]

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lockdown lookback – motorbike years part 6 …

May 8, 2020
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Part 6 of the Lockdown Lookback features another couple of European Road Trips (RT11 and RT12) one of which was memorable for me for all the wrong reasons when I was involved in an avoidable accident on the A55 in Italy and which put something of a dampener on the trip. This was also a […]

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