Motorcycle life – motorbike travel and pictures
Off to find the sunshine and warm roads in Spain & Portugal. I’m about to head off to Spain and Portugal for what promises to be a decent bike trip, and it’s a trip I mentioned a week or two ago. I’ll be traveling via Brittany Ferries on the Plymouth/Santander crossing. Although my journey will […]
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, […]
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 […]
I’ve said for a long time that you can tour on any sort of bike, and ultimately it’s hard for me to imagine any bike that doesn’t come with some sort of compromise. Clearly depending what your expectations are and what you want from your bike will depend on the level of compromise. My earlier […]
It’s been a little quieter than usual on the Blog for the last couple of weeks, as my wife and I have been away on a road trip in Spain and Portugal. The trip was fantastic, glorious roads and weather and all pretty enjoyable. I’ll catch up and post updates over the next few days […]
It feels almost too early to start thinking about Spring, but I must admit even though January isn’t over I have started thinking about the prospect of better weather and places to ride to this year. The only fixed bike trip I have in the diary for 2017 is a couple of weeks in Spain […]
The second book I have written is now available on Amazon. I published my first book What if You Don’t Break Down, last August (in ebook format) Recently it has alos been published in paperback format – you can skip back and read my Blog post about that book here My new book is called […]
There are a couple of posts on this Blog about a book I wrote and self published earlier this year (2016) – WHAT IF YOU DON’T BREAK DOWN Since then a few people have asked me how is the book doing and are you writing another, so I thought I would answer that with this […]