Author: Matthew Cashmore

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…

Having learnt to ride on a 1997 CZ 125 9 years ago in Caerphilly and Cardiff I have little sympathy for people moaning about the weather in London, and ‘winter riding’ in the capital of this great country. I’ll try to avoid this becoming ‘when I were a lad’ entry; but when I were a…

How hard can it be? A 16 year old with a diploma from the local collage can do it, that polish chap I met at Chiswick Honda can do it, so can I. In fact, I booked myself onto a Motorcycle Mechanics course at Merton Collage in South London (just to be safe) – I’m…

It’s finally here, my new house, and with it (most importantly) is my new garage! I was adamant from day one that this garage was going to be a shrine to my bike. A clean, healthy environment with a red painted floor, white walls a ‘clean’ workbench, a ‘dirty’ bench and a kettle – not…

Yes I know it’s Christmas, and I know it’s the New Year, and yes I know the most important thing at a time like this is family, friends and home. But for some unknown reason I’ve really missed being connected to the net over the holiday period. I’ve moved you see, and this has lead…

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…

I’ve just finished reading the quite amazing book from Charley Boorman – Race to Dakar – First of all I want to make it clear that I really enjoyed Long Way Round, even though I’d watched ‘the real boys’ doing it several years earlier on no budget, with no support crew and certainly no big…

Not one to post about scooters very often but this caught my eye http://www.mp3.piaggio.com/index_eng.html Essentially it’s a scooter, but, it has three wheels! No news at the moment about how it rides or what it costs but tomorrow is it’s launch day and one of our members over at londonbikers.com is test riding it –…

I’ve resisted posted this for some time because it was a real accident and my old boss felt dreadful about it – he was exceptionally sorry and made sure everything was paid for and repaired. But it’s still quite funny.

I run a website for bikers in London called londonbikers.com – it’s a pretty cool site that has an amazing forum and collection of users losley defined by a standard internet forum. It’s been pretty noisy lately, with the very vocal majority, pointing out what they see as problems in the way the site is…