Fear & Loathing in LA LA Land
Everyone knows that we live in dangerous, lawless times; so anybody who rides an expensive or highly desirable motorcycle has to deal with the reality that there are hordes of Continue Reading
Uncomfortably Numb
With the increasing popularity of adventure bikes and an ever shrinking globe, it’s becoming more and more difficult for tales of momentous two wheel journeys to capture the public’s attention. Continue Reading
Riders’ Lives ~ Jennifer Capron Iddon
1. What was your first motorcycling experience? I was 13 years old when my friend and I borrowed her brothers FS1e ‘Fizzy’. She told me to ride it down the Continue Reading
Time Travel: A Biker’s Life in the 1970s
Human nature likes to revere the past as a lost utopia by selectively erasing the bad bits. It’s like those weirdos who live their lives as if it’s 1950, decorating Continue Reading
Underneath the Arches
It’s a funny thing, writing something for someone. I find that when you are visiting somewhere, an event, a place, with a view to reporting on it, you have a Continue Reading
Ask a Policeman ~ 184
Blade Runner Electricity, we can’t do without it, especially if you want to read The Riders Digest, but it always comes at a price, not just to our pockets, but Continue Reading
Six & the City ~ 183
Tuesday Confidence is a strange thing. I guess it’s not unlike trust; it can take time to gain it but even just the hint of doubt and it vanishes like Continue Reading
Hey, I’m With The Team
Club-level motorcycle racing has an odd relationship with the media. You’ll see race reports and lists of results, but not much else. Some of it has a regular slot on Continue Reading
Incredible India
Our first impressions of India were good except for negotiating the single lane bridge immediately after the border that all traffic going in both directions needed to cross. Being India, Continue Reading
Riders’ Lives – Andy Kershaw
1.What was your first motorcycling experience? Riding a friend’s Italjet around a field when I was 11. 2.What is your current bike? Harley 883 Sportster, which I’ve owned since 1990. Continue Reading
Eddie V-Max
Sharp-eyed regular readers, who saw the Chelsea Bridge pictorial we ran in issue 97, will no doubt have recognised the spectacular V-Max on the cover of this issue. That was Continue Reading
Six and the City
Tuesday Still not on the R6 yet, as it’s languishing in the shed on a trickle charger just waiting to be called back in to action, so daily commuting is Continue Reading
The Posh Boys’ Bike Club
I’ve always been pretty crap with names (but spectacularly good with faces) so if anyone had asked me a few years ago if I knew Steve Hallam, I wouldn’t have Continue Reading
Riders’ Lives – Paul Nicholas Blezard (aka Blez)
1.What was your first motorcycling experience? Aged 13, hiring a 50cc motorcycle and riding it on the streets of Rimini for an hour without mastering the clutch, but also without Continue Reading
Six and the City
Thursday Today I was told that I am no longer a biker. “What do you mean!?” I was told that I’m no longer a biker, just a bike rider Continue Reading
Paddy’s Perspective
Which Way Now? It’s something to ponder: Where’s the Bike Industry going? Chasing a GP dream or embracing environmentalism? Are the marketing men leading, or are consumers demanding change? Is Continue Reading
Jan’s Off Road Experience
In April 2012 I finished work to set up DragonMotoTours with my husband, Geraint, and I received a voucher for the Yamaha Off-Road Experience, (Y.O.R.E), as a leaving present from Continue Reading
Ask a policeman
I’d like to start by saying I’m not a writer, a reporter, or a journalist. I’m not highly educated and I possess very few literary skills, (thank goodness for smell Continue Reading
Riding Out The Recession
Ed Ricketts, the real-life marine biologist immortalised as Doc in Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, evolved a theory of how everything is connected in the natural world. He observed that the sea Continue Reading
Funky Mopeds
There was a time, many years ago, when some of the contributors to this august journal had long hair, pimply faces and flares, when there existed a sub culture Continue Reading
The Ace Cafe, Café Racers, and Racing Aces – Book Review pt. 1
It is doubtful that there is anyone involved in the world of British motorcycling whose life is not touched directly or indirectly by the Ace Cafe. A visit here, an Continue Reading
The Ace Cafe, Café Racers, and Racing Aces – Book Review pt. 2
The world of the contemporary café racer in the United States is more properly addressed in Seate’s Café Racer: the Motorcycle (2008). For the past five or so years Seate Continue Reading
Six and the City
Monday It’s March and I’ve now been wearing my heated gloves for what feels like forever (I was tempted to say, since November but that technically wouldn’t be correct ‘cos Continue Reading
Paul Sample: The Interview ‘Everyone chooses their own destiny; mine’s a bike’ – OGRI
Whitchurch 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 explore with Continue Reading
Portraits of the TT 2012
It had been 10 years since my first and last visit to the Isle of Man for the TT races, back in 2002 I had just changed jobs, as I Continue Reading