Sep 1, 2010

A small but much needed update to the site today. Our video page has been given a bit of an overhaul. We are no longer using the default YouTube channel player thing as it was rubbish. Our videos are now being given pride of place on the page. As we have plans to be making a lot more in the future, this all makes sense! We are slowly making our way through the...

Aug 22, 2010

Amazingly, we still have 5 weeks until the adventure begins and we seem to be quite well organised. Tickets are booked, a rough plan is in place that will ensure we get to where need to be and some research has been done to ensure we make the most of our time away. This is all very unlike us so expect some panic a little later on! Last night most of the group...

I was recently given a piece of advice by a fellow RideAround blogger – “don’t test ride a BMW 1200 GS Adventure if you don’t want to buy one!”.  How true this turned out to be.  After about a mile of the test ride I knew from the ear to ear grin how true that advice was.  Since then I agreed to purchase the dealers demo model...

Aug 17, 2010

Leigh picked up his new R1200 GS Adventure today and so it was deemed necessary that both new toys went out for a short ride! Here we are at the coast in the fading light!

Aug 12, 2010

What started as a modest idea to go for a short ride through France has morphed, ridearound style, into an epic adventure that far exceeds most of our usual bright ideas. This, technically, is not true because we regularly have wild ideas, the difference this time is that our tickets are booked and the sat-navs are starting to tremble! At the end of September,...