I got fed up with not being able to sync the Tomtom Rider 1 with my Scala Rider bluetooth headset and also with the somewhat flaky track recording that depends on a third party app that I installed to the Tomtom. So after swearing to avoid doing business with Touratech if I could avoid it, [...]

I have been awaiting the arrival of BMW crash bars for the GS since I ordered the bike. The last news I had on these was that there were “production problems” with no further news on a projected delivery date.
What these production problems might be in something as apparently simple as a set of [...]

If you wonder why there are quotation marks where there should be an apostrophe, you are not alone, I am as puzzled as you.
It started when I “upgraded” to Wordpress 2.5.1 and I started to get a couple of lines of php warnings before the blog proper loaded. I also couldn`t access the blog`s admin [...]

I ordered some of these for the GS quite a while ago - in late April if memory serves - at which time they were awaiting delivery of the new Scorpion exhausts which are needed if one wants a balanced pannier set up with no exhaust cut-out, as I do. As I was going off [...]

It just happens to be blocked by a rather large tree root..
Turning six bikes round in a lane narrower than the bike is long necessitates some rather hard work..

It was a brilliant day, organised by Mike Wilson at South London BMW. Six brave souls, including Mike - bravest of all for looking after us! - [...]

For some greenlaning tomorrow that is. Recalling my last outing, a few precautions have been taken, such as to have had a bashplate fitted and I have removed one mirror from the bike - the other will come off before we hit the dirty stuff. One problem is deciding where to put stuff like an [...]

I had a great ride yesterday with guys on the UKGSer forum. We started and finished at Newlands, taking in three counties in a 120 mile loop thorugh some very pretty country side and along a fine mix of roads including some gravelly muddy stuff that almost threatened to become off-road, shady country lanes and [...]