Everywhere Virtually

Tomorrow or should I say today some friends of mine arrive from the Czech Republic. They are a 3 strong team but only two of them have set off in advance of the third who is sorting out visas back in the UK. They are part of the 2010 London to Cape Town team. Riding [...]

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All great adventure motorcyclists have periods when their bikes are off the road, their bikes are incapacitated or they’re incapacitated. In my case the recession clipped my wings adventure motorcycling wings for a while. I’m far from being unlucky though because I happen to be residing in one of Europe’s best countries for motorcycling in [...]

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As we trip into the wee small hours of the morning I remembered that I should log two highlights that happened to me yesterday. The first being the arrival of Austin Vince & Lois Pryce’s DVD. As the embryonic components of a hack are beginning to take shape in a secret Austrian garage I have [...]

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A few weeks back at the Horizons Unlimited event in Derbyshire I said to a friend of mine if he was ever in Austria to give me a shout and we’d meet up, sample the local cuisine and have a ride around the lakes and mountains to the South West of Linz. I’d met Paddy [...]

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My friend Simon is keen to get into motorcycling. That said he has 3 large tasks before him. Firstly he needs permission from his wife (or I say get it anyway as it’s easier to ask for forgiveness), then he needs a bike license. This is somewhat complicated by the fact he lives in Germany. [...]

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I woke up at 8am and due to the heat and stuffiness of the room felt a bit groggy and puffy eyed. Not a pretty picture. Due to some good fortune the room happened to be on the ground floor and the bikes were right outside which mean’t we could pass the bags out of [...]

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I was all set to ride back to Austria and because of the fact i was bringing some things back for M the loading didn’t and couldn’t take place until the day of departure. There was not enough room in my folks garage to man handle a heavy bike. Well perhaps not really heavy but [...]

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Before I write another thing I would like to thank Grant & Susan Johnson and Chris Colling & Dave Lomax at adventure-Spec for making my attendance possible this year. Without them it would not have happened. the 2010 10th anniversary event was much bigger than previous years. As I rode up the driveway to Lumb [...]

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www.awayfromhere.org I had the pleasure of meeting up with Si Johnston yesterday. He had embarked from Northern Ireland early on in the day, Coleraine to be exact with the today’s destination being Cambridge but ultimately he is headed for Mongolia. That’s quite a ride by anybody’s standards and he had a deadline to meet. The [...]

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I’ve got a lot of time to think right now. This is a bike blog so I will spare you the financial and employment thoughts but the bike thinking has gone off the wall. Right now my problem is I’m about to be bike-less very soon. In about a weeks time. This is a problem. [...]

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