Why I should never buy a sportsbike

What a fantastic day! Weather was a bit dodgy to start with, but soon cleared up as I blasted around the North Circular to the Ace. Had a huge breakfast there, great as always, and then met up with the rest of the crew. 30 of us in total at the Ace, and for some…

I know I bang on about bikers here in London not getting the whole riding through the winter thing, or at the very least complaining every time the temperature drops below 5 degrees, but I do have a confession to make. I’ve been off work for the best part of two weeks; during that time…

I put Five Live in contact with Patrick last night to talk about the release (below) from the Transport Select Committee – Patrick McConnon was holding up the banner for londonbikers.com – he was talking about the idiotic idea about putting limiters on bikes – the MPs are obviously off their heads and need to…

I just had to post this – for all my cooking on the road, and ‘surviving’ by making sure I eat a good meal of an evening – it just never occurred to me to try to cook in a traditional 3 star hotel. Sure – I’ve had a crack at cooking in a motel…

I’d almost feel sorry for Starbucks if it wasn’t for the fact that whilst they certainly do produce a vast amount of mediocre coffee they are a massive pain in the butt that has driven the quality of coffee in London to the floor and beyond…. here in Melbourne the vast selection of independent coffee…