Just spoke to the dealer (South London Motorcycles) about my order for the F 800 GS. All seems to be in order and he”ll ring me next week with the reg so I can insure it. I have already anticipated the big day by putting a promo picture of it in the side bar, as [...]

We have had a great February weatherwise! I have been out on the bike a lot in splendidly sunny weather and feeling warm enough until the sun goes behind a cloud when it suddenly feels cold and you realise that this is still officially winter with over 3 weeks to go before spring. The apparent [...]

My faithful old ZZR left my garage for the last time yesterday when it was collected by the new owner. Ebay had done its magic and found me a buyer offering the sort of money I felt the bike was worth and we are both happy with the deal. I do confess to feeling somewhat [...]

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

On Wednesday I took the ZZR for an outing to Horsham in glorious sunshine. It is probably the last time I shall ride it as the bike is on Ebay and the auction ends tomorrow. It was a great ride with the bike running well and the weather just about perfect for riding. Horsham itself [...]

And still brilliant today as well. I took myself off to Wiltshire on Saturday for a bit of gentle, aimless wandering around the hillier bits. I was pleased to find that once off the main roads, the smaller ones were pretty quiet. It was such a lovely day, inevitably quite a bit of traffic had [...]

The name of this blog is currently “Chris’’s Goldwing Blog” and that’’s a pretty accurate name as far as most of it’’s content currently goes but I have a problem.
I love my Goldwing better than any bike I have owned to date although I have done many more miles on other bikes, none has [...]

This is the sort of shit we have to put up with as motorcyclists in London. But I blame the folk that elected this sorry excuse for mayor or better still the idiots that decided we needed a mayor in the first place.
The British Motorcyclists Federation haveaccused London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s office of putting motorcyclistslives [...]

Well, not quite but I have put a deposit on one..

I went to the MCN show at Excel yesterday and this was what I needed to tip the balance. As soon as I saw the bike in the flesh, I  knew I had to have it and then, when I got on it and found [...]