I bought some SW Motech engine bars for the GS from Nippy Normans. They were a good price compared with other makes and they arrived swiftly. Both left hand and right hand bars went on the bike easily enough although the lower bolts must have been made from putty as the hex key started to [...]

Friends (Brian and Shira who publish Backroads Magazine) I made on the Patagonia Trip put this together - it’’s great.

Patagonia certainly tested my choices of riding gear thoroughly thanks to some very cold winds, rain, dust and wind as well as taking a pretty heavy tumble that road-tested my stuff. I am glad to say that it all worked pretty well in keeping me warm, dry and safe but with varying degrees of comfort [...]

It’’s hard to compress into a few words just how big an impact my trip has had on me. It is unquestionably the finest motorcycling trip I have ever made and two reasons stand out. Firstly the place is simply magnificent in it’’s variety but most of all in it’’s feeling of being vast, unspoilt [...]

Patagonia was simply amazing - totally fantastic in every respect. My trip was all I hoped it would/could be.
This is as far as the road will take you in South America and what a road! Mountains, deserts, rainforests, glaciers, lakes and let’’s not forget the wind. It blows constantly in the south - relentless and [...]

Well, I survived another bout of off-roading. This was certainly an experience and totally unlike the BMW course last weekend. I have to say that the BMW course was in my view much better value and far more professionally run. To be fair, the BMW course advertised itself as skills building whereas the Honda offering [...]

I had a fabulous couple of riding days in Wales doing this course in preparation for my Patagonia trip. The photos on this certificate don”t really do the course or the environment justice. I bounced up and down dale (with rocks) through ruts and rivers and mud up to my ears (especially when I [...]

We seem to have been having a fair bit of good weather in the last few days and I have been out on the bike a lot. I discovered one handy feature of the back rest I installed recently and that is that my handheld GPS picks up a good signal when left in the [...]

This is supposedly a blog about my Goldwing experiences but the weather is keeping the lid on those at present! The great performance of the Wing in bad weather has shown me that I needn”t fear a bit of rain but the skies and forecasts do nothing to encourage me on to it at the [...]

Well not problems - challenges rather. On the clothing front, I finally sprang for a BMW Rallye 2 Pro suit. No that’’s not me modelling it! I shudder to think what my Goldwing buddies are going to say if they see me in it. However, it has good protection and if Ewan McGregor and Charley [...]