riding bikes and doing other things
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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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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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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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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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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Now that the simple format of the lockdown lookback posts are established (I write a few words then select a bunch of pictures from the time period in question), it’s time to move on with Part 5 of the series. In Part 4 I had mentioned and included pictures from a terrific trip in 2009, […]
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This post continues with the lockdown years theme and takes us back to 2009. It was January of that year when I traded my Suzuki GSX-R 750 for the 1,000cc model and I recall it being less than an ideal day when I collected my bike, temperatures were freezing and the day had started with […]
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This is the third part of the lockdown lookback posts. If you have read Parts 1 and 2 you will know I have turned to writing these posts to pass some time whilst actually getting out on a bike isn’t an option. If you missed the previous posts in this series you can read them […]
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I said in Part 1 of the lockdown lookback that having tidied the shed, the garage and the spare room as well as cleaning (and re-cleaning) the bikes I decided to have a tidy up of me digital picture collection and then to look back at pictures from over the years and post them in […]
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Having tidied the shed, the garage and the spare room at least three or four times, and polished each of my bikes to within an inch of their lives I was looking for something else to do and so turned to a task I had been putting off for a some time. For as long […]
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