Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
A chance meeting A few weeks ago I had called to the J&S store in Northwich and got chatting to a fellow biker. We had a general chat about this and that and then got onto talking about trips and travels. It turned out that Rob had a trip to Scotland coming up and as […]
After the last three bike rides being on the new BMW F800 which I picked up last week from Derby Kawasaki I decided that yesterday’s ride would be on the RnineT and altogether different riding experience. I headed out early along the familiar Cheshire roads out towards Alderley Edge, before turning towards Jodrell Bank and […]
Since picking up the BMW F800 R last weekend I have managed to get out a couple of times and probably done around 350 or so miles now. The first ride was around the Cheshire area, heading out from home via Stockport, Alderley Edge, Jodrell Bank and Holmes Chapel and then towards Oulton Park but […]
The prospect of superb weather along with a modest amount of effort to make a decent route set the potential for a decent days biking … and I wasn’t disappointed. Yesterday I was off and on the road before 07:30 am and headed out towards Waddington and Dunsop Bridge in the Ribble Valey – north […]
Although the weather was much greyer and much cooler than of late it was dry and so with the prospect or poorer weather in the coming day I got the BMW out and head for the Forrest of Bowland area – an exceptioanlly pretty part of the UK – only did about 150 or so […]
This post goes back to a 5,000 mile European trip that I did in 2015 and that I had mentioned in the previous Lockdown Lookback Part 7. In some respects it was a trip of two parts – the first part was with three friends making our way from the Spanish port of Bilbao, […]
Now that the simple format of the lockdown lookback posts are established (I write a few words then select a bunch of pictures from the time period in question), it’s time to move on with Part 5 of the series. In Part 4 I had mentioned and included pictures from a terrific trip in 2009, […]
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 […]
I’m not sure of the origin of this picture, but in my opinion it’s worth a look. If you are the owner and you would like me to credit the picture or remove it then please let me know
The rather odd February weather provided me with an unexpected opportunity to get a few miles in on one of my bikes – and for me my first ride of 2019. All in all it was decent enough and also provided me with the first ‘biker breakfast’ If you’ve missed the recent posts with some […]