Ride Report Journal

November 27, 2019

Electric Motion Trials Experience

I have many regrets in life, but one that at times stings the most is that I didn't ride trials bikes as a kid. Gro...

November 14, 2019

Gear Guide - Track Kit

This year I decided to ditch my humble, Stig of the Dump look and equip myself with some decent track gear. There a...

October 23, 2019

Yamaha R1M Masterclass - Silverstone

Half a million quids worth of fun! I don’t know about you but after I’ve watched a MotoGP race, WSBK to a lesser d...

September 25, 2019

Yamaha XSR700 - Plastic Surgery

I love the Yamaha XSR700, but it's not a particularly attractive motorcycle in standard form. It looks like Quasimo...

August 14, 2019

Gear Guide - Acerbis Ottano

I've been doing more and more greenlane and adventure riding recently, mostly in a 15-year-old Hein Gericke jacket ...

August 09, 2019

Suzuki Katana - Ride Report

I hadn't even mastered a balance bike in 1981. In fact back then I couldn't even evacuate my own bowels properly wi...

June 10, 2019

Bell Eliminator - Gear Guide

I haven’t had a new helmet in a little while but seeing as Bell are supporting the Bike Shed show this year I thought...

May 06, 2019

Indian FTR1200 - Ride Report

Remember that smug and satisfying feeling you got when you handed in your schoolwork early? Nope, me neither. But I ...

April 21, 2019

Indian FTR750 - Ride Report

I've been following flat track in the USA for decades, perhaps not really closely at first but in the last few years...

March 14, 2019

DTRA 2019 Season Launch

Last weekend we hosted one of our favourite annual events - the Dirt Track Riders Association flat track season laun...

January 10, 2019

Torotrail Off-Roading in Spain

For me 2018 was the year where I finally stopped talking about off-roading and started doing more of it. My soul has...

December 19, 2018

Triumph Scrambler 1200 - Ride Report

The revival of the scrambler as a style, a genre even, has brought with it some ambiguity as to what scrambling act...

December 17, 2018

Scrambler 1200 - Riding Gear

No wonder my case nearly blew the scales at the BA check-in, there's a lot of gear to review here. Thankfully some of...

December 04, 2018

Ross, Stew & Gerry's Spanish Adventure

This year I realised a dream, or silenced a multi-decade procrastination at least, and bought an enduro bike. Howeve...

October 09, 2018

Race Report - Cannons Enduro

After what seemed like three lifetimes worth of procrastinating I decided to shit rather than get off the pot, and b...

September 25, 2018

California Superbike School

STOP PRESS - CSS is now closed in the UK, but the global franchises are still operating OK, time to let the cat out ...

September 05, 2018

Ride Report - Honda CB1100RS

When myself, Dutch and Gareth clapped eyes on Honda's CB1100RS at EICMA a couple of years ago all three of us were ge...

August 08, 2018

Ron Haslam Race School

I'm nearly 40 fucking years old, how the fuck did that happen? I can't quite get my head around that fact but there'...

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