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    Cork 2019 Toy Runs

    Sunday 1st December ... Weather forecast, sunshine all the way ! Sunday 8th December ... Weather forecast ... ?
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    Cork Toy Run 2018

    A pleasure to participate in the Cork Toy Run, Sunday 9th of December 2018. Set off from The Two Mile Inn, Midleton, travelling to Franciscan Well, North Mall, Cork City. Collecting donations of Christmas presents for Families of Cork under the care of Barnardo’s and Cork Penny Dinners. All...
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    Frank Thomas glove gripe ...

    Thistles and Bah Humbug ! Frank Thomas glove, still nice and comfy, warm and waterproof after only eighteen months of light use, but has now started to wear thin, tear apart along the side of the index finger, with whatever the low quality outer layer material used in the construction...
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    Beware ... loose gravel !

    Beware, the southern, hair-pinned side of the Healey Pass in West Cork/County Kerry has been resurfaced. Lots of loose gravel causing front wheel deviation during braking and cornering !
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    The Black TA stolen from Sneinton, Nottingham.

    Despite being chained to a ground anchor at his home in Sneinton, Nottingham, Uk, during the night my former Black Transalp was stolen from it's current owner. Owner had returned from a weekend jaunt to the Lake District, he, his G/f and the TA are booked for ferry and accommodation for a trip...
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    World's Largest All Female Biker Meet 16th July, 2017.

    World's Largest All Female Biker Meet 16th July, 2017. AT and I will be accompanying G/f on her scarlet Scrambler to this event. Lynn's Raven Cafe A41/A49 Junction, Prees Heath,Whitchurch, Shropshire SY13 2AF, United Kingdom. Worlds Largest all Female Biker Meet 2017 World's Largest All...
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    Open consultation: Improving moped and motorcycle training

    Summary Changes to moped and motorcycle training to make sure newly-qualified riders are better prepared for riding on modern roads. Should motorcyclists be able to upgrade their licence to ride larger bikes by taking a training course, instead of having to take more tests ? Give your...
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    New Year's bargains ...

    Go to: BykeBitz Share and enjoy !
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    Black Friday Bargains !

    Pssst ! Motorcycle Luggage & Accessories | Bykebitz 20% off at checkout using code BF16
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    Stolen !

    G/f's Son's 125 KSR Moto - Reg. FG65 XRS, pictured in happier times. Bastards cut through the heavy chain in broad daylight, outside a Nottingham church where the KSR was parked, 10/11/16.
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    The Mount Etna Ash Dance

    16:00 Hours, 16/08/16. The Africa Queen, seemingly unimpressed at my demonstration of the Mount Etna Ash Dance.
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    Stolen: 2 x GPz900r

    STOLEN on the night of 19/8/16 (from South Milford Hotel near Squires), a red and silver GPz900r, Yorks Reg No: E703 AAW, also a blue and silver GPz900r, Reg No: C368 RPD. Police informed ... Any help in retrieving the two bikes much appreciated (https://www.facebook.com/alan.wright.108)...
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    TA 650 Engine Noise Paranoia.

    My Black TA (the one that the engine of went phut Big-Time in France back in 2014 - see links below), now has a replacement engine in it that goes just as well as a good 650 TA engine should … But … bearing in mind my earlier experience of that cataclysmic TA 650 engine seizure in France …...
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    Standing/riding

    Any of you lot ever been pulled for standing up on the pegs whilst negotiating bumpy bits of public road ? Tomorrow, I have to go see a Maltese cop, that saw me standing on the pegs as I was going over an undulating stretch of Maltese public tarmac.
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    Approaching Calais

    News reports of desperate fellows, intent upon getting across the water to the Uk, attempting to gain access to cars, vans and trucks that are queuing for the ferry at Calais. During their approach to the Calais ferry/tunnel terminals, have any returning motorcyclists experienced problems with...
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    The Next One ?

    Girlfriend is entirely, comfortably, happy with pillioning about on the 650 Transalp … … that we’ve done a few laps of Sicily upon. But, Transalp 650, two-up with luggage, will take its own sweet time on the tedious motorways, autoroutes … … and autostradas between the interesting Fun&Games...
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    Might I enquire ...

    What is considered to be a 'Big Trailie' ... as a TTR250, DRZ400sm and 2x TA650 rider, wondering if I can legitimately remain here in such exclusive, exalted Big Trailie company ... ? Yours Humbly, ©-©
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    Grrr and Double GRRR !

    Went to Gzira for afternoon tea with the eighty-nine year old ‘Father-in-law.’ Across the road from his apartment, a motorcycle parking bay, occupied by a knocked over moped … grrr And no ****er had bothered to pick it up. Double Grrr ! So, of course, I went and did. Yours angrily ©-©.
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    XRV has been quiet

    aaah ... Here you all are !
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