General Ramblings

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…

I was going to write something nice about Ian’s new bike – a Honda Silverwing I was going to point out that it doesn’t look half bad, that it is rather comfortable, that it does sound quite good, I was even going to go as far as saying I wouldn’t be too embaressed to ride…

I can’t stress enough how much I’m looking forward to getting to my new house, and more importantly my new garage. The one on the far left is mine – my new flat is above it – and there’s another garage out to the right you can’t see – we own the whole building but…

Really don’t ever let me buy a sportsbike From Lee Harkers NEC 2006 Photoset on Flickr 

Got back from the 2006 Motorcycle and Scooter Show at the NEC quite late on Friday night and have just started going through my swag bags. I’m quite pleased to say I managed to bag 8 side-stand pucks, 24 sweets, 12 pens, 4 key rings and a free poster of a topless girl on a…