Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Motorcycle Live Nov 2025 – at the National Exhibition Centre I called at this year’s Motorcycle Live show this weekend at the NEC in Birmingham. The last time I was there was back in 2022 (see post here). The itch to get close to bikes is nagging at me. The frustration of not being able […]
Motorcycle Live Birmingham November 2022 November sees the Motorcycle Live show return to the NEC in Birmingham. It’s a bike show that has really has been around for some time, in fact it has been in existence since 1981. Although it’s been going for over 40 years, it hasn’t always been called Motorcycle Live. In […]
This post continues with the lockdown years theme and takes us back to 2009. It was January of that year when I traded my Suzuki GSX-R 750 for the 1,000cc model and I recall it being less than an ideal day when I collected my bike, temperatures were freezing and the day had started with […]
This is the third part of the lockdown lookback posts. If you have read Parts 1 and 2 you will know I have turned to writing these posts to pass some time whilst actually getting out on a bike isn’t an option. If you missed the previous posts in this series you can read them […]
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 […]
For a good while now there have been two bikes shows that I have tended to visit each year: The NEC show in Birmingham and the Manchester Bike Shows. In each of the last two years I have added the Llanfest (Llangollen Bike Festival) to my list – and in general each of the shows […]
It was the annual Llangollen Motorcycle Festival at weekend (Llanfest 2017) and a show that I went to last year and really enjoyed. To be honest it was touch and go as to whether we went this year due to the continuing erratic weather that we have been having. Given the nature of the show […]
Not only is February the month with the fewest days, its probably also the month with just about the least activity for me when it comes to the bikes. The weather is normally still a bit too cold and rubbishy to make getting one of the bikes out an attractive option and invariably there are […]
Yesterday my nephew and I drove through some of the most prolonged and torrential rain I have seen in a long time to visit the annual motorbike show Motorcycle Live 2016, at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. You can read Part Two here It was a bit of a late call as to whether […]
bit of a spur of the moment decision yesterday to nip down to the Manchester Bike Show – certainly a place where it would have been all to easy spend loads of money at