Archive for March, 2008

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Wine snob

There’s nothing better at the end of a hard day than a long cold beer, except perhaps a beautifully rich, deep bodied, glass of Bordeaux. Neither is that practical on a bike. The beer? Well it tends to be warm, and the wine? Frankly it doesn’t get out of France before I’ve finished off my [...]

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Monday, March 10th, 2008

Off-road training day

The Ady Smith school sounded like a really great way to spend the weekend. Not only was it going to be fun but I was also looking at it as further rider training and being able to relate some of things I learned on the weekend to my road riding.
Ady Smith runs a good school [...]

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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Adventure Motorcycling Review (the book)

I was looking forward to having a look at this book when it came out. As practical ‘how to’ guides on adventure motorcycling are a bit few and far between so it’s nice to see another title for people to pick-up when they start planning or even dreaming about a long trip.
On first impressions the [...]

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