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Last week I posted a short note on the cost of travelling into London from Buckinghamshire via public transport vs the motorbike. The difference was startling, I was expecting public transport to be more expensive, but was hoping to be able to dismiss the difference easily, and argue that the time spent on the train…

I’ve had to tune in to Rally RAIDio for the last couple of days to get the latest news and reactions to the Dakar being cancelled. What’s amazed me is the total lack of interest from main stream media. The BBC ran a story, and even as it was breaking ‘Terrorists stop Dakar’ it wasn’t…

I occasionally drop in great marketing ideas here – normally that’s a particularly well executed TV spot – but on this occasion it’s a piece of packaging. It doesn’t take a great deal of explanation, mainly because it’s been everywhere in the last couple of days – and that’s rather the point. Panasonic have driven…

I’ve often wondered where it all began. Where and when did I first get interested in Motorbikes. Was it because my next door neighbour when I was very young had a very very loud Kwack that would wake the whole street every morning? For years I thought that was it, the excitement of running to…

It seems only yesterday that I was posting here about my new and very exciting job at Lonely Planet. The Innovation Ecosystem Manager (no, I never stopped having to explain to people what that meant – in the end I went with ‘do cool shit’). In fact it’s been nearly two years since I left…