riding bikes and doing other things
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, […]
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Every now and again I take a look at a short clip heading towards Amalfi on the Sorrento/Amalfi coast road. This one was done in 2015 on a Kawasaki Z1000 SX – it’s a decent bit of road, with pleasant views, especially if you catch it when it’s reasonably quiet You can see the short […]
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For the back end of my trip I had decided to spend two nights in the pretty German town of Saarburg, close to the Luxembourg border leaving me with just one final stop over that I planned to make somewhere reasonably close to the Dunkirk for the DFDS ferry home a few days later. The […]
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After staying in Bad Wiessee in Germany I decided to head for Lake Konstanz and booked a place in the small German village of Bematingen. It was another decent day, pleasant roads and easy and relaxed riding in good weather. By this time I definitely had started to get that feeling that I was at […]
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I had decided that I would head back into Slovenia and stay at a place called Lokve a short distance from Nova Gorica. The roads from Udbina, (which I wrote about in Part 4) were decent and initially took me past a fairly large military installation that looked to still be in use and then […]
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In my previous trip post I wrote about riding along the Dalmation Coast, past Dubrovnik and onto the pretty seaside town of Cavtat. I stayed in Cavtat for one night before heading back up the coast and then into the mountains – my destination was the small town of Ubdina in the Lika region of […]
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I’ve been back just over a week now from my most recent ride on my Z1000 SX, where I set off without much of a plan. I had got dates in the diary a while back when I booked the P&O ferry from Hull to Rotterdam and a return (DFDS) ferry from Dunkirk to Dover […]
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Although there was something of an improvement in the weather during April, it still hasn’t really been that good so far, which in turn has disappointingly meant that it has been a pretty slow start to the ‘biking year’ for me, compared to previous years. On the positive side I have managed to get out […]
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Pressed from the Motorcycle News Website Source: Kawasaki Z1000SX old vs new | MCN
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I wrote about visiting the Motorcycle Live at Birmingham’s NEC in Part One and have continued in Part Two with some more words and pictures from the show. It seemed that most of the major manufacturers were there.One absentee was MV Agusta, which was a pity really as the MV stand at a bike show […]
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