Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Pictures and updates from rides and trip
Its all about the exhausts … it seems the variety of bike exhausts are almost as plentiful as bikes themselves – they really do come in all shapes and sizes. Some seem to enhance the bike whilst other make me wonder what on earth the designers were thinking off (not withstanding the design restrictions and […]
I was asked recently to look at a product that essentially is an online storage/archiving facility for your own digital legacy. It’s called Vivala.me and it looks like a pretty neat and secure, online service for not only fully protecting all your digital information, but then actually managing it properly if the worst were to […]
Author interview with travel writer and motorbike enthusiast Tony Burns. Source: Tattooed Mummy’s Randoms: Wordy Wednesday with Tony Burns
Not only is February the month with the fewest days, its probably also the month with just about the least activity for me when it comes to the bikes. The weather is normally still a bit too cold and rubbishy to make getting one of the bikes out an attractive option and invariably there are […]
Found this on the MCN site and it follows a survey of more than 12,000 MCN readers. My personal favourite from the bunch that made the top 10 is the 2005-2007 Grisso.This article has been ‘pressed’ from the MCN site Source: Top ten Moto Guzzis | MCN
Pressed from the Motorcycle News Website Source: Kawasaki Z1000SX old vs new | MCN
With dull, cold and grey weather throughout January, it’s been hard over the last few weeks not to think about warmer weather and to start looking ahead to 2017 on the bikes, which has also prompted me to start writing a series of Blog posts to capture my year on the bikes.V7V Inevitably there will […]
If you read my last Blog post about Biker Shirts and Biker Shorts then you’ll know my mind has started to turn towards Spring and the coming biking year. In that post I mentioned about a planned trip to Spain (that’s already sorted and booked) and that I also needed to make a decision about […]
It feels almost too early to start thinking about Spring, but I must admit even though January isn’t over I have started thinking about the prospect of better weather and places to ride to this year. The only fixed bike trip I have in the diary for 2017 is a couple of weeks in Spain […]
Towards the end of last summer (2016) I wrote and published a book/travelogue, What if You Dont Break Down. That book was published on Amazon in ebook format, meaning it can be read on a number of devices, including Kindle, ipad, iphone, Android phone etc The book has now been published in paperback format and […]