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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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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