Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Pictures and updates from rides and trip
The motorbikes may have changed but the story stays the same Sometimes life gets in the way of things. Family commitments, work commitments, bad weather, good weather and even a global pandemic can change what we do and how we do it. Sometimes we just make plans and change them and sometimes we just change […]
Rolling back the years – BSA, Honda & Moto Guzzi at Broxton. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about meeting a guy called Ian who was on his pretty impressive Triumph TR6 and who I had met when I stopped at the Broxton Butty Van (get directions here) located behind the Edgerton Arms in […]
Superb day on the BMW F900 XR – out and about in North Wales The change in the weather in the last week was welcome and I intended to make the most of it. On the previous day my wife and I had headed off (in the car) to Ambleside in the Lake District, but […]
Suns out, the bikes are out and the roads are dry …for now After leaving the Broxton butty van stop and having chatted to Ian about his very decent Triumph TR6 (see previous post here) I headed on and took a non direct route back towards Whitchurch before heading for home. On the way I […]
Triumph at Broxton – a nod to Honda’s 1966 nicest people ad’ In 1966 Honda served up one of its most distinctive and memorable advertising lines in America. Some people say the line ‘You Meet The Nicest People On A Honda’ is one of the most genuinely iconic motorcycle sales slogan ever. Last time out […]
BMW F900 XR The Old Stores motor bike cafe & Horseshoe Pass. The recent upturn in the weather has meant that in the last couple of weeks I have been able to get out on each of my bikes. A few days earlier I had headed to Cheshire on the Moto Guzzi V7 and stopped […]
Moto Guzzi V7 Cafe – out and about and coffee at Tilly’s. Apart from taking the Moto Guzzi for its MoT last week, it seems absolutely ages since I have been out on it. The ride up to MW Motorcycles for the MoT is so close to home that it barely counts as a ride […]
Note: this post was first published in 2017. Because it has consistently proved to be popular I have ‘re-issued’ it with a few minor publishing and presentational amends. Can you really tour on a Kawasaki Vulcan 650s – the truth? Can you really tour on a Kawasaki Vulcan 650s and is this modern take […]
The new BMW R12 and the R12 RnineT – then out on the RnineT Last week my wife and I called into the Williams BMW showroom in Manchester. It wasn’t’ really a planned visit in so much as we had been elsewhere and decided we would nip down there mainly because I wanted to […]
Come on spring, come on summer – lets have some good weather Although it’s still only early April, my mind has been wandering back to last year and the prolonged period of dismal weather that stayed across the UK and parts of Europe for way too long. Anyone remember the names of the various storms […]