Reasons To Be Cheerful
The 10th Anniversary edition (i.e. new wraparound cover) of The Carin’ Sharin’ Chronicles Available from The Rider’s Digest shop, The Ace Cafe, Amazon or by order from any good bookstore Continue Reading
Reviving the live site!
The editor suffered a rather nasty infection at the tail end of last year and although it was sorted out eventually with a great deal of support and assistance from Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest Live
We are very proud to announce the arrival of our all new web site The Rider’s Digest Live! We’re aware that there are many regulars who eagerly await a new issue of Continue Reading
Race on over to our ‘Live’ site
Because that’s where you’ll find all of the new stuff; there’s an amazing archive here that you could spend a lot more time than you might have intended exploring but Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest issue 194 ~ Autumn 2016
The PDF of issue 194 of The Rider’s Digest is available to download absolutely FREE from our online shop HERE and as usual it is rammed full of the best motorcycling writing anywhere on the Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest issue 193 – Summer 2016
The PDF of issue 193 of The Rider’s Digest is available to download absolutely FREE from our online shop HERE and as usual it is rammed full of the best motorcycling writing anywhere on the Continue Reading
Image of the Month Poll
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Appalling!
This story has caused barely a ripple in the mainstream media but there’s been a fair bit of chatter within the ‘biking community’ and although the responses have varied widely – largely dependent on the kind of group who were Continue Reading
The BMW R5 Hommage
Motorcycle manufacturers commissioning one off specials is nothing new, in fact judging by the amount of PR blurb that we see in our in-tray it would appear that it has become Continue Reading
The Dark Side
Tom battles rain and London gridlock on a diverse pair of Dark Custom Harleys “In a world of the bland leading the bland, Dark Custom motorcycles are for those who Continue Reading
Precious Children Revisited
Towards the end of April a mum from Texas found herself at the centre of a veritable Twitter-storm after this photograph appeared online showing her boyfriend carrying her seven year old daughter on the Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest issue 192 – Spring 2016
The PDF of issue 192 of The Rider’s Digest is available to download absolutely free from our online shop HERE and as usual it is rammed full of the best 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Riders’ Lives ~ James Clark
1. What was your first motorcycling experience? Trepidation, followed by utter joy; same as everyone else. More specifically it was a Honda C50 that was so old it had a Continue Reading
Me & Harley McDee
The title of this piece is an affectionate nod to the ‘road’ classic most famously — not to mention most emotively and passionately — delivered by Janis Joplin. Although “Me Continue Reading
Twist & Go, Go, Go!
Many commentators have questioned who the current crop of larger capacity super scooters are aimed at? Well, rather than providing a definitive answer, the GP800 – replete with its 839cc V-twin Continue Reading
Paul Sample ~ The Interview
Whitchurch in Shropshire is one of those places that encapsulates the essence of Englishness with all its half-timbered houses, red bricks and stone-built churches. It’s a theme I want to Continue Reading