riding bikes and doing other things
I have recently received a terrific new book as a gift – ‘The Complete Book of BMW Motorcycles’. It’s a book that covers all models from 1923 to 2015 … and that’s a lot of models to cover. It’s a well structured publication and takes the reader through the early days and origins of the […]
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It’s November so it’s the time of year to make the trip down the M6 to the NEC in Birmingham to the annual Motorcycle Live show. As in previous years I made the trip with my nephew Andy – and it’s fair to say we both thought this years show was well worth making the […]
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I wrote in the previous Blog post about what a miserable year 2019 had been from a biking perspective I alos said that despite that I was already looking forward to 2020. All things being equal I will have made a reasonable recovery and a decent level of progress that will allow me to enjoy […]
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By any measure 2019 has been a pretty miserable year in terms of biking for me. Shoulder surgery in March and then just as I was well on with the recovery from that … a broken knee and a partially ruptured tendon in May set the tone for pretty much the rest of the year […]
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Well it’s almost 11 weeks since the knee fracture and over 12 weeks since I was last out on one of my bikes and (even that was delayed due to recovery from shoulder surgery) but at last the prospect of getting back on a bike is within sight. After having my leg in a straight […]
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It’s just a day short of seven weeks since I banged my knee and fractured it – which meant the first four weeks I did almost absolutely nothing and then the last couple of weeks doing a little bit more but a long long way off anything like normal activity. The bikes remain in the […]
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Its a slow job but progress is being made. If you saw my Doctors Orders, post the other day then you’ll know that apart from other things I’m a little way off from getting getting back on the bikes, so much so that my scheduled trip for July has been postponed. But progress is being […]
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It’s June already and I can’t even say that my biking this year (2019) has been a stop/start affair. It started later than usual and then stopped and it’s remained stopped and I don’t quite have a date yet for when it might get started. It was a later than usual start to my biking […]
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I wrote a post a short while ago about doing what the doctor says, this was written following some routine shoulder surgery – which although on the way to recovery has got in the way of getting out on the bikes as much as I would have liked, especially with the decent spell of weather […]
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A couple of weeks back I had been browsing the Wunderlich website looking at everything I didn’t know I wanted and didn’t know I needed … and I noticed that I could request the 2019 catalogue, which in a way seemed sort of unusual given that almost everything is online now. As much as I […]
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