Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Goodbye to the BMW F800R and welcome to the BMW F900XR TE. I wrote last week that it was time for me to say goodbye to the excellent BMW F800R roadster that I have had for the last three years or so. In my last post I mentioned I made three trips to Ireland on […]
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Time to say goodbye to the understated but decent BMW F800R I bought my BMW F800R back in August 2020, now just about three years on it’s time to say goodbye to the F800. I bought the bike from Derby Kawasaki a dealership that I had sort of randomly stumbled across when browsing the web […]
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BMW RnineT a classic roadster and a decent Sunday morning Not all bikes are created equal and there really is no good reason why they should be. The RnineT is a bike that is so much more than the sum of its parts … and its parts are all good. Manufacturers, journalists and bikers have […]
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Motorcycle in Ireland County Kerry, County Cork & Mizen Head Previously I wrote about heading for Mulranny in County Mayo and then about having a fabulous day around Achill Island. In this third and final post of this tripm after leaving Mary’s I head for an overnight stay in the town of Killarney then the […]
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Apologies for technical problems Please accept my apologies for any post dropping into followers email boxes to say that a new post had been published (when it’s actually been the same post) – the one about the roads of County Mayo. I’ve been grappling with a bit of a technical issue that has been impacting […]
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Motorcycle in Ireland – enjoying the roads of County Mayo This is the second part of this short series of blog posts ‘Motorcycle in Ireland’. If you missed Part 1 you can click back for it at this link. In that first part I had mentioned this was a fairly short trip due to other […]
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Motorcycle in Ireland, back to the roads of the Emerald Isle Good weather and some free time had me thinking about where to go for a short break – and to be honest on this occasion I wasn’t really thinking of anywhere other than Scotland or Ireland. Regular readers will know I was in Ireland […]
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Motorbike trip to Ireland – new post coming soon I have just got back from another excellent motorbike trip to Ireland. Last years trip in June was so good that I wanted to return before I had even come home. I did in fact return, and if you follow this blog you will have seen […]
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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 […]
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BMW RnineT – good morning sunshine, heading for the coast I had said the other week about how it felt like the change to better weather seemed to be taking an age this year. Thankfully it seems we have now turned the corner and with the good weather at weekend I was up, out and […]
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