motorcycle life
Photo collages Circumstances have been such that a lack of riding has led me to post this assortment of collages. The collages have typically been used as the featured images for a number of previous blog posts. The continued (slow) recovery from last months knee surgery has kept me off any of the bikes longer […]
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Bit of a look back I have recently changed the Instagram name I use for my bike pictures. The change to an Instagram page specifically for my bike pictures, rather than the generic one I use for all of my pictures (including bikes) meant I was starting from scratch with the bike pictures. Just at […]
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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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Every now and again I take a look at a short clip heading towards Amalfi on the Sorrento/Amalfi coast road. This one was done in 2015 on a Kawasaki Z1000 SX – it’s a decent bit of road, with pleasant views, especially if you catch it when it’s reasonably quiet You can see the short […]
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I wrote about visiting the Motorcycle Live at Birmingham’s NEC in Part One and have continued in Part Two with some more words and pictures from the show. It seemed that most of the major manufacturers were there.One absentee was MV Agusta, which was a pity really as the MV stand at a bike show […]
Read MoreLast year I traded one of my bikes (a CB1000R) for a new Z1000SX and during the second or third week that I had it I dropped it – thankfully it was at just about zero mph. A simple one really and one that should have been avoidable. As I pulled of the A road […]
Read MoreI recently responded to a Twitter post from a company based in Alfreton (Derbys) and they were looking for people to sample and comment on their cakes … but these were cakes with a difference and retail under the name of eat your photo So I suppose it wasn’t too hard to work out from […]
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