Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
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 […]
Motorcycling in the High Peak – BMW F800R Motorcycling in the High Peak – BMW F800R. I had a couple of hours free this morning (Sunday) so made the most of it with a few hours out in Derbyshire, in and around the High Peak on my BMW F800R. Initially I headed out towards Glossop […]
Something old – motorbike days picture post Something old – motorbike days, a short picture post from the weekend. I was out and about at weekend on the BMW F800R, not on a big ride just my fairly regular 70 mile round trip for a coffee (and on this occasion toast) at Cafa556. so a […]
Motorcycle road trip to Scotland July 2021 – Part 4 This is the final blog post in the short series of updates following my motorcycle road trip to Scotland. You can read previous parts at these links: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. The weather during the trip had been ideal and almost exactly […]
Motorcycle road trip to Scotland July 2021 – Part 1 Getting away for a few days on a bike is always something I enjoy. Getting away for a few days on a bike to Scotland – with a near certain forecast of good weather for the duration of the trip really is something special, something […]
Road trip to Scotland and finding the ‘left road’ – Part 2 I started this blog post (in Part 1) by saying how pleased I was to be able to at long last get away on a bike, and continue to feel just a little that things are heading towards a return to some sort […]
What’s happening and what’s the plan for 2021? There’s no question that 2020 fell somewhat short of being the best of years for many people and for many things – including of course not a great year for getting out on a motorbike. Covid 19 and the global pandemic pretty much saw to that. A […]
Back on the bike With the continued success of the UK vaccination programme it looks like getting out on the bike on a regular basis is not too far away. With that in mind I have one of my bikes booked in for it’s first MoT this coming Monday -so for the first time in […]
There have been a couple of days in recent weeks, that despite the onset of Autumn have made for pretty much ideal riding conditions – and I’ve been able to get out on each of my bikes, although the Moto Guzzi is currently in my local bike workshop having an electrical issue sorted, and which […]
New bike day at Derby Kawasaki – trading for a BMW F800R The first question Jack (from Deby Kawasaki) asked me when I arrived on Saturday to collect my BMW F800 RÂ was “are you excited”, it was a question that in all honesty he could have easily predicted the answer to – any day […]