What do you do on a Sunday afternoon when you’ve got a BMW R1200GS? You go green-laning and enjoy yourself! What do your three friends that have Suzuki Bandits do? They come with you and try their best to keep up! As Shane put it: Hindsight is a great thing! Logic is also a great thing! Quite why my logic concluded that riding my road bike off-road...

Well I have finally got around to taking my motorbike test recently and after possibly the second most nerve racking 45 minutes on a bike (the honor of first place goes to the first time I took the bike out in the wet but that’s another story!) I passed successfully Prior to the test I went out for a practice ride with one of the instructors from the...

It has been a little while since I updated you all on my progress. So, with that in mind, I guessed I best get myself sorted and change that.  Where to start? Well, I have now picked up a bike, in truth this was sorted a little while ago with a large deal of thanks to both Shane and Leigh. Without them who knows if things would have progressed! With a bike...

Nov 5, 2008

Here is a shot from 2004 with Aidy on his GSX-R and Dave on his Ducati! Remember the photos at the reservoir...

After 11 months I finally took my test and am pleased to report that I passed! A week earlier, Leigh also passed his test meaning that 3 out of 4 ridearound.netians are ready to ride! Dave will soon be joining us on the roads but he will be wearing the red L jackets for a while! More details on all this to follow!