Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Seven year itch – not a chance happy anniversary you beauty. It was back in 1955 when the American romantic comedy The Seven Year Itch with Marilyn Monroe was released. That in turn led to the super iconic picture of Monroe with her white dress being blown upwards while she stood on top of a […]
Summer arrived again just for one day – so out on the RnineT Summer 2024 already seems to have a similar feel to summer 2023. Seemingly endless rain day after day is really making biking more miss than hit. You might recall that last year (around about this time) I cancelled my planned trip to […]
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 […]
Not so much showers as downpours – it’s time to stop raining Last time i wrote I said I had been out on the BMW RnineT and had also been down to Williams to look at the new R12 nineT … I had also spent plenty of time dodging the rain. It’s not that I […]
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 […]
BMW RnineT – but what a silly error with the Moto Guzzi Last time out I had been on my superb BMW RnineT, but with the welcome change in the weather it felt an ideal time to get out on the Moto Guzzi V7 for a few hours. Knowing I had a fairly busy day […]
BMW RnineT looking good in black & white I accept that with many things beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, and I suppose that motorbikes are no exception. I find that with the BMW RnineT it’s a bike that I really like the look of no matter which angle I view it […]
Sunny motorcycle days on the RnineT Sunny motorcycle days on the RnineT. Sunshine and a BMW RnineT are a hard combination to beat. What’s not to like about sitting astride the boxer twin and taking it easy down Cheshire back roads without any particular plan and without any particular place to go. I did a […]
BMW RnineT – over due miles It seems like it’s been too long since I was last out on a motorbike – and it seems that way because it really has been too long. Normally I would have been back on the bikes in maybe late February and certainly by March, but this year I […]