The Rider’s Digest Issue 191 – Winter 2015
Issue 191 of The Rider’s Digest is available to download absolutely free in Adobe PDF form from the online shop right here. In this 154-page issue we road test the Continue Reading
The 2015 Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride – London
It’s late September and while Maggie May’s toy boy really should be back at school, hundreds of motorcycle enthusiasts across London and the South East of England were spending their Continue Reading
Thanks for the Imagery
To kickstart this little article, I ought to declare that as a non-biker of forty years standing, my knowledge of motorcycles is non-existent. I know nothing about bikes whatsoever, absolutely Continue Reading
A CAR!!!
When I informed the editor that due to a series of unforeseen events, I would be substituting a Saab convertible for the BMW/Ural combo that I described in “The Grand Continue Reading
Looking For Adventure and Whatever Comes Our Way…
More than 700 outdoor types attended the Adventure Travel Film Festival (ATFF) recently at London’s Mill Hill School. The school, whose alumni includes one Austin Vince, (former army officer, former Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest Issue 190 – Autumn 2015
Issue 190 of The Rider’s Digest is now available absolutely free in the usual Adobe PDF format from either the online shop right here, or from the links in the Continue Reading
Top Mountain Cross Point
A Rider’s Digest Exclusive In spite of a rock solid reputation for straight talking, honesty and integrity that stretches back to 1997, The Rider’s Digest rarely seems to pick up Continue Reading
Royal Enfield’s New London Showroom
Royal Enfield has continued with the planned expansion of its footprint in the UK by opening a second exclusive store in London. The store, in Mitcham, South London, will stock Continue Reading
British F2 Sidecar Championship @ Anglesey Circuit – 25/7/15
The editor (me) and Mark The Chef (author of the Honda Collection feature in Issue 187) went to Anglesey Circuit in North Wales for what was ostensibly a two-day club Continue Reading
Fatal Attraction
The original working title for this month’s offering was: “Women… D’oh!” However I decided that while the Homer reference (that’s Simpson, not the Greek geezer) gave a clue to the Continue Reading
Gallery: Electric Motorcycles – The Story So Far
As a follow-up to his in-depth assessment of the Harley-Davidson LiveWire in Issue 189, here’s a gallery courtesy of electric evangelist Paul Blezard featuring a few examples of the LiveWire’s Continue Reading
Behind The Lines
During the summer of 2014, with the Tower of London surrounded by thousands of vivid red ceramic poppies and the nation finding many different ways of paying tribute to those Continue Reading
You’ll Believe A Man Can Fly…
Freestyle Motocross evolved out of playtime. Mainstream pro MXers would ride in their free time, off-season, on some piece of off-road ground that happened to facilitate air. As is the Continue Reading
Falling Head Over Heels
Manoeuvring the Aprilia inside the small front garden was tricky. It wasn’t difficult in a way that was likely to convince the smiling woman in the doorway that I was Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest Issue 189 – Summer 2015
Summer is here and everybody is out riding, so here are 188 pages of top-quality inspirational motolit via Issue 189 of The Rider’s Digest, available via [free] Adobe PDF download Continue Reading
Souvenirs From India
Of course I would have loved to have had my Enfield with me but it wasn’t that sort of trip to India this time. It was a ‘proper’ holiday with Continue Reading
Land’s End or Bust!
Blez recounts a memorable ride to the end of English earth on an Indian-built bike with a proud British history, inspired by an intrepid journey half a century earlier. When Continue Reading
Motorbike Fast
Motorbike Fast by Suzi-Mae (who is 11 years and 5 months old). I hold on tight, I look straight ahead, Leaving behind my warm, cosy bed. Now I’m ready and Continue Reading
Riders’ Lives Special ~ ‘Hairy Biker’ Dave Myers
Since they burst onto our TV screens almost 10 years ago, The Hairy Bikers have ridden a variety of machines into our living rooms, prepared some very tasty looking meals Continue Reading
The Northward Route
The pages of just about every motorcycle magazine are covered in articles about the newest, the best or the most-hyped ‘adventure bike’. I’m not going into this topic because I’ve Continue Reading
Riders’ Lives: The John Surtees Interview
When you get a group of motorcyclists together discussing racing heroes, the same names tend to crop up, all richly deserving of the accolades that follow: Geoff Duke, Mike Hailwood, Continue Reading
Brenda’s Bike
I am not a biker. I am a retired GP from Bristol who is part of a small development project in rural Ethiopia, helping out with worthy aims such as Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest Issue 188 – Spring 2015
Here we go folks, here’s the brand new Issue 188 of The Rider’s Digest – just in time for that post-winter shakedown and cobweb removal (of the bike, that is). Continue Reading
The Grand European Tour Revisited
I’ve noticed that irrespective of whether or not they subsequently make it into print, travel stories often seem to start over a few large whiskies, half a dozen pints, or Continue Reading
Held Gloves review ~ A Man For All Seasons
As last year’s ‘riding season’ was drawing to a close (i.e. when sensible leisure riders SORN their bikes and the rest of us start digging out our cold weather kit), Continue Reading