Tag: motorcycle
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Guest Blog: A Guide for Young Motorcyclists
A first for me, I think, but I was approached by PR professional and writer Joe Thomas with this article on entering the world of motorcycling. Well, who knows, it may well be helpful. All the article is his and given without further comment from me. I wasn’t paid to host it either! It may…
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green biker, Green biker
As the year of the election approached, and battle lines were drawn up, it became clear to me that the major parties had all failed. More, the entire political system had failed, to the point “a pox on all your houses” didn’t contain sufficient vitriol to carry the anger and contempt I felt. However, given…
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Tomb Stone Bristol
The roads are ever more congested and dangerous, they tell us. So here’s a new delight – small almost invisible teeth in the road, that will catch you and rip you from your motorcycle and eat you up! Even if you’re in a car you’ll be very sorry you drove along Clarence Road, in my…
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Hoggin’ the Bridge
Hoggin’ the Bridge is an annual charity bike ride, initially established in the year 2000 for Harley’s (hence the Hog in the Hoggin’) but now attended by up to four thousand motorcycles, trikes and even quads of various manufacture. Starting on the England side of the old Severn Bridge, it took some time for all the bikes…
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New screen
Wanting to put a screen on Morrigan, my Triumph Thunderbird Storm, I found almost nothing available online and very few pictures of potential options. Now that I’ve solved my immediate problem (and fitted a screen) I thought I’d blog it a bit, so that the next biker who went down this route would find something…
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Midlife Crisis [tick]
So many jokes about the midlife crisis; about hitting the half century. And I laughed and thought nothing of it. And then, like puberty or an unexpected menopause, it hit. lol So, I went to the wife and said “what do you think – bike or another woman?” And surprisingly… she said bike! Which was a…