In retrospect, flying in the day before you have to ride the width of England isn’t the best idea.
then again, maybe it’s not the be worst either. I flew in last night and eventually found my hotel. It was small. noisy and very cheap. I barely slept at all and this morning, I picked up [...]

So here it is: The day before I fly to London, pick up a rented FJR1300 and head around Europe for ten days. Up until today, it’s been mostly panic mode. I made a late night dash to buy a cordura suit the other day as I figured my leathers were too hot and the [...]

So it’s seven days and counting to my European jaunt – about 4000km from England, into Northern Italy and back again and obviously taking the long way round – and I’m starting to panic about what to take.
I’m taking the trip with a bunch of liter-bike riding Brits, all friends of someone I went [...]

I’m guessing you, like the majority of the worlds population live in a city. The problem with cities are too numerous to go into here, but the main one is they really aren’t that much fun to ride a bike around. Or at least not in my experience so far.
After being woken literally at the [...]

While channel surfing the other night, I was pleasantly surprised to see some all-too-brief highlights from the Isle of Man TT. Now, for some reason or other I’ve rarely been in a position to watch whole races but this year, thanks to the miracle of the internet, was my chance.
But what were my options? The [...]