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Longest Day Challenge (LDC) 2025
I first heard about the Longest Day Challenge (LDC) in 2024, I saw one of the bikes entering being fixed by someone I followed, this got my attention, and had to have a Google. It turns out this ‘organised mayhem’ has been running for thirteen years! Originally the LDC was a daft idea by John Continue reading
The Llangollen Motor Museum
Llangollen in mid-Wales is world famous for the magnificent Pontcysyllte Aqueduct that carries the Llangollen canal over the River Dee valley. The aqueduct is indeed a superb testament to the UK’s amazing industrial heritage. But it is not the only nod to the achievements of our forefathers in the area: Tucked away, down a bumpy Continue reading
Flypasts and Cordial. Checking out the Cotswolds
I had been looking forward to this run for some time, it was coming at the end of a quiet week off work: Life had conspired against me (who’s paranoid?) to prevent me getting more than a few derisory miles under my belt on a bike. So when Saturday morning dawned I was a little Continue reading
Yamaha SRX400 – Less is More
There are many strange things about motorcycling: for instance I had owned a Triumph 900 Sprint from new for six years. A fabulous beast of a bike with a lusty and tuneful triple engine at the heart of it’s appeal, but something was missing. Can’t really put my finger on it, but the link between Continue reading
Better Late Than Never
I am extremely late and very much new to the world of motorcycles. In fact I had never actually even sat on one until I was a grand old age of forty five years old! Getting Into it To get started I took my CBT Back in April 2024. I survived that and got my Continue reading
New Show in Town – The Poolehall Bike Night
It’s always fantastic when a new bike night opens up locally. Better still if this happens to be held at a delightful rural venue, situated on sinuous road that weaves its way across some stunning and quintessentially English countryside, so typical of the Worcestershire/Shropshire borders. The A442, otherwise known as (by me!) as the ‘Cafe Continue reading
Ever Wondered What True Love Looks Like? A XJR1300, That’s What
I’d always wanted a motorbike. Ever since I was about fourteen years old. My dream was finally fulfilled when I took my CBT eleven years ago. From that on went onto cover over 6000 miles in only nine months on a wee Lexmoto Arrow 125. Determined to Go Larger… I sold the 125 and worked Continue reading
A Matter of Choice
Recently I had a bit of a medical ‘do’. The recovery from this has resulted in me being unable to ride a motorbike much since last July and not at all since last September. Not great. To make matters worse the nature of the condition means that I am going to be restricted (not by Continue reading
Enough – Is 100bhp All You Actually Need?
Back in 2015 I bought myself a fabulous MV Agusta 1090RR Brutale. A beautiful bike and I loved it. The punchy four-cylinder engine kicked out 168bhp. The thing was called Brutale for good reason! The MV was a real Cane Corso (Bull mastiff) of bike. Mean, powerful and oh so fast. Too Much? MV Agusta Continue reading
Suzuki X5 200 – Stan Stephens Eat Your Heart Out
I’d just passed my bike test riding my mother’s Honda C70, only days after my 17th birthday. Immediately I swapped a Suzuki GT250 I’d been restoring for a very rough Suzuki X5: The insurance was much cheaper being a key reason for the switch. Not the Best Example of the Breed Test riding X5 revealed Continue reading