Motorbikes, trips & travels. Words & pictures from the road.

quality sunday

had a cracking good late afternoon/early evening at Sarah and Damian’s – Pat and I walked the 7 or so mile round trip to compensate for the drink and food!

Regular visitors may have noticed that the title of the Blog has changed from its former T800 title to the new 55 and out title. The ‘About me’ section has been updated as has the My bikes section – more updates are on the way and a new section will be added soon and that […]

changes on the way for the Blog

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| General

In the next week or so there will be some changes to the way the front end of the Blog looks and some new work done on presenting information in ‘categories’. The reason for this is that the Blog continues to develop and has now attracted in excess of 12,000 views in the time it […]

site problems

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| General

currently dealing with site problems – 25 July

look who was here today

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| Family

… no explanation needed really

bit of a green day …

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| On the road, Z1000

Only a short ride today, but decent nevertheless – racked up about 140 miles – sort of the long way round for a coffee in Shropshire, but also used it as an opportunity to take a few pix at a place where I have took pictures of a few bikes in recent years. Well what […]

great day for …

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| On the road, V7 Cafe

Facebook readers can access the full article on the blog at http://1894tony.wordpress.com/ There’s load of pictures posted there clicking the first one opens the gallery I only had to make a few decisions today one of which was what bike to ride and the other was where to go – and although I got two […]

top quality service/top quality dealer

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| BMW RnineT, Product/service reviews

When we were setting off from Col’s to head down to Folkestone for the tunnel to Calais the weather wasn’t great – well it was less than great actually as it was chucking it down and looked set for a while. With that in mind I thought it best to change from my dark visor […]

still catching up

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| BMW RnineT, Family

still catching up with mail and things after the Road Trip – but one thing I did do last week was meet up with Sarah, Daniel and Emma when we took a short train ride to Marple for a decent coffee and scone … should be back to normal now with the Blog

Road Trip (RT14)

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| BMW RnineT, On the road

Got back from this years annual road trip on Saturday (RT14) but sub titled ‘The Stroking the Fox Tour) – Facebook readers can access the full Blog entry and photo gallery here: It was a decent trip but relatively low mileage (this year I did a shade under 2,000 miles) but that was because we […]