riding bikes and doing other things
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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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 […]
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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 […]
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CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE LATEST POSTS LOCKDOWN LOOKBACK – THE MOTORCYCLE YEARS I said in Part 1 of the lockdown lookback that having tidied the shed, the garage and the spare room as well as cleaning (and re-cleaning) the bikes I decided to have a tidy up of me digital picture collection and […]
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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 […]
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I know some people ride all year round whatever the weather conditions, I make no apologies for not being one of them, but now that March has passed and April is here it’s certainly the time of year when my riding season starts, and I can’t wait. It’s always the time of year that for […]
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This is my third and final post from this years Manchester Bike Show at Event City. Click these links if you want to catch up on Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 pretty much had the words, Part 2 was very much a photographic focus on exhausts and this third and final post is […]
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Its all about the exhausts … it seems the variety of bike exhausts are almost as plentiful as bikes themselves – they really do come in all shapes and sizes. Some seem to enhance the bike whilst other make me wonder what on earth the designers were thinking off (not withstanding the design restrictions and […]
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I went down to the Manchester Bike Show with my nephew yesterday at Event City which is located right next door to the Trafford Centre. The weather in Manchester on Saturday was just glorious and although I didn’t travel by bike, plenty did and they were able to make the most of what felt like […]
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I was asked recently to look at a product that essentially is an online storage/archiving facility for your own digital legacy. It’s called Vivala.me and it looks like a pretty neat and secure, online service for not only fully protecting all your digital information, but then actually managing it properly if the worst were to […]
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