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Touring

New Tyres and a Plan

November 12, 2008

When lubing my chain after my trip to Wales on the GS, I noticed that my rear tyre – a TKC80 was split between a couple of tread blocks. It wasn`t catastrophic looking and it had brought me back from Wales in one piece, but not wishing to tempt fate, I had the tyre replaced [...]

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Ireland here I come!

August 10, 2008

Tomorrow I am off to the Irish Treffen on the Goldwing. I have never been to Ireland before so it’’s a real first for me. There is one fly in the ointment however, the ferry tickets were booked by fellow Kent Winger Vern and the timing is such that we have to leave at 04:30 [...]

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Getting Serious!

July 1, 2008

Got down to Metal Mule today and had these beauties fitted. It’s two 38l side panniers and a 45l topbox. To get the balanced set-up the standard exhaust was replaced with a slimmer Scorpion exhaust. It is no noisier than standard but sounds quite different – better I think.

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Italy 2008

May 23, 2008

Back from a marvellous tour of Umbria, Tuscany and the Marche courtesy of Beach’’s Motorcycle Adventures.
I was riding a brand new BMW 1200GS equipped with a Garmin 276C GPS (great system – miles better than my Garmin 2820 I reckon, at least for my uses) that was filled every couple of days with lots of [...]

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Trailer ordered, 8000 mile service booked, new tyres needed

April 29, 2008

In my (respectable on-road) Goldwing life – as opposed to my (irreverent off-road) GS life, I have decided it’s time to get a trailer for the bike. I hasten to say that is not a trailer to carry the bike on but a trailer to tow behind the bike. This will alow me to dump [...]

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Patagonia Movie

February 17, 2008

Friends (Brian and Shira who publish Backroads Magazine) I made on the Patagonia Trip put this together – it’s great.

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Thoughts on riding gear

December 5, 2007

Patagonia certainly tested my choices of riding gear thoroughly thanks to some very cold winds, rain, dust and wind as well as taking a pretty heavy tumble that road-tested my stuff. I am glad to say that it all worked pretty well in keeping me warm, dry and safe but with varying degrees of comfort [...]

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Patagonia

December 5, 2007

It’s hard to compress into a few words just how big an impact my trip has had on me. It is unquestionably the finest motorcycling trip I have ever made and two reasons stand out. Firstly the place is simply magnificent in its variety but most of all in its feeling of being vast, unspoilt [...]

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Back from the Fin del Mundo

November 24, 2007

Patagonia was simply amazing – totally fantastic in every respect. My trip was all I hoped it would/could be.
This is as far as the road will take you in South America and what a road! Mountains, deserts, rainforests, glaciers, lakes and let’s not forget the wind. It blows constantly in the south – relentless and [...]

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Completely Bonkers??

June 29, 2007

My paper Aerostich catalogue landed on the mat yesterday and for those of you who haven’t yet acquired one of these I suggest you do so without delay – it is a veritable Aladdin’’s cave of biking gear porn and guaranteed to be injurious to your financial health.
On the back cover was an ad for [...]

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