Westminster Council is still wrong

Why oh why oh why do they insist on putting them in the middle of bends? Does anyone at the council know what they do to bikers!? On the way to my new house I counted 12 manhole covers in places where they can cause me to lose grip as I’m going around a corner…12……

…beside the seaside! And so on. Mark With is 40, divorced and riding a motorbike around the coast of Europe. He is certifiable, but by God I envy him no end. I’ve really been enjoying his flickr stream, with beautiful shots of sweeping coast lines and cloudless skys. It rather helps matters that he’s riding…

I’m very very much against road pricing, the latest (old) idea to come out of one of the governments think tanks; Each vehicle has a box that receives position signals from satellites (the ‘downlink’) (GPS or the European Gallileo system) and records vehicle movements in some sort of local memory. At some specified interval the…

Now with panniers, originally uploaded by mattcashmore. I’ve finally had a few weeks back in Australia and it’s all starting to feel more like home than a place I happen to be spending some time. Part of that is all the gear turning up for the bike, and the other bit is my brother coming…