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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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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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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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what I love about my current motorbike is when you open up the garage door it smells like a motorbike. It has that oil/leather/metal quality to it. The BMW didn’t have any smell. The company had the distinct smell of bullshit towards the end but the bike itself had no aroma. Back in the day [...]

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This is just a video short of Si riding through the English Peak District en route to cambridge. Si Johnston set off from Coleraine in Northern Ireland on this day and I was lucky enough to ride with him across the English Peak District for some of the way. His ultimate destination being Mongolia and [...]

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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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Well after a few weeks of modifying the CB500 I am nearly finished. I’m waiting on a fly screen to arrive and I could do with some highway footpeg’s to improve the comfort on long distances but for now I would say it is 90% complete. This is my Honda CB500 overlanding bike . It’s [...]

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A great vid from Svengalie. Who has been in this scenario. You are in a field and you see cows. You wrongly assume they are scared of humans and then they start making their way towards you at speed. I know I’ve been there and I’ve shit myself. Frantically scrambling over barbed wire fences and [...]

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