So you’re planning on joining up with a group ride this weekend and you’ve never ridden with others before? Maybe you’ve been riding with a group for a while, but you were never sure of the etiquette? Here’s a guide to what you need to know…
So it’s winter and that means that for most of the time I’m out on the bike, it’s going to be something a bit more modern. My chop’s a great ride, but when it’s properly cold and wet, most of the time, I’m going to chose to ride something a bit more modern. My Triumph explorer has heated grips and a heated seat and I quite often ride with my Keis heated vest, keeping me pretty damned toasty even in the nastiest weather. But what if I do want to ride my chop? There’s no way that I want to fit heated grips to aRead More →
Claire and I were asked to present a workshop on how to plan a moto adventure at Camp VC this weekend. I promised I’d put up our notes and lists on the site as a blog post, so here they are…
It all went a bit Pete Tong today, if I’m honest. It started out so well, too.
Our day started with breakfast in the apartment hotel – I’d score some food the previous night, so we were able to avoid the inevitable disappointing hotel breakfast and make a fairly quick getaway. I was delighted to discover that the window to our ground floor room opened far enough that we could just climb out onto the car park rather than having to go all the way out through reception. Stuff like this makes me unaccountably happy…
Today has been wet. Damned wet. Ordinarily, I can cope with a bit of rain on the bike; I ride a big motorcycle with a lovely screen and plenty of weather protection. I usually wear waterproof textiles and good boots and gloves. On this trip though, not so much…
Today was a seriously long day, so in lieu of words, here’s some video from my helmet cam, in which Claire and I discuss our first day and how it was that we narrowly avoided getting kicked off the channel tunnel train for being on fire… https://youtu.be/j1rPNNWtbyo
A guest post from Claire… Motorbike trackers. We’ve all thought about getting them – but there are a lot of different choices out there. I’d like to give you an introduction to the one I use and tell you a bit about how to set it up.
So obviously, we’re going to want to carry some luggage. We also kinda want to avoid breaking down if we can help it. There’s only one thing for it – To The Batcave! I mean garage.
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