Archive for May, 2008

Trailer time

Yesterday I went off to North Walsham to pick up my new trailer at Freewheel and also got a trailer towbar fitted at the same time. The weather going up was horrid - a grey murk that resembled a London smog in many ways, except for the foul smell that used to accompany those. It [...]

On the Goldwing that is. I bought it just a year ago when I started this blog and it has performed beautifully during the time since then but I guess part of that is getting it serviced regularly and so I took it into Doble’’s yesterday for the scheduled service. I reckon a 4000 mile [...]

Italy 2008

Back from a marvellous tour of Umbria, Tuscany and the Marche courtesy of Beach’’s Motorcycle Adventures.
I was riding a brand new BMW 1200GS equipped with a Garmin 276C GPS (great system - miles better than my Garmin 2820 I reckon, at least for my uses) that was filled every couple of days with lots of [...]