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
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
Dream Racer: Review
It seems incongruous to review a DVD that’s been on general release since 2012. However, Dream Racer has recently been nominated for another slew of documentary awards to add to 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
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
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
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
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
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
Less Than Hog Wild
It would have been nice had The Art of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycles (2014) arrived in time to be included in the winter round-up featured in Issue 187. It would have Continue Reading
Red Horse, Ready Rider
If the brutal truth be known, I wouldn’t even last ten seconds as a despatch rider. Quite odd, really, since The Rider’s Digest was started some seventeen years ago by Continue Reading
Globe Girdlers Six
Hard to believe, but circling the world on a motorcycle goes back more than a hundred years. It did not start with Ted Simon, despite what many still believe (Simon, 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