Introducing… The Yamaha WR280R Adventure
Yamaha’s XT660Z Tenere is an excellent overlander – and even better when the suspension is upgraded and the engine opened up with a better silencer and airbox. It [read more...]
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Vote Now! Overland Expo ‘Best Shot’ Photo Competition
Pau has reached the final eight in the Overland Expo photo competition with this picture. The winner will be chosen by public vote. So please take a moment to click in the [read more...]
Practicing What I Preach: Turning to The Light Side – Finally
Back in 2014, after a year and a half riding my Tenere through South America, I wrote a blogpost entitled, “Turning to The Light Side – The Argument for Lightweight [read more...]
Back to The California Superbike School – Level 2
This is the second article I wrote for Motorcycle Explorer Magazine, covering my experiences during Level 2 of the California Superbike School syllabus and my emerging views [read more...]
Advanced Training with the California Superbike School
This article appeared in the January Issue of Motorcycle Explorer Magazine. It looks a Level One of the California Superbike School syllabus which I attended in August [read more...]
The Road to Damascus…. on a Scrambler
‘You can have an adventure on any bike”. It’s a well-used mantra, but mention ‘adventure motorbiking’ or even moto-touring these days and most riders, it [read more...]
Britain’s Patagonia – the North West Highlands
Chile, a country of 756,000 square kilometres, boasts a modest population of about 17 million people. The United Kingdom is less than a third of the size at 243,500 square [read more...]
Through The Highlands – a Pictorial
Scotland on Scramblers – Back on the Road
It has been a long while since I was last blogging, but I’ve been busy on two wheels during that time. We celebrated Pau’s birthday at the Yamaha Off Road [read more...]
New Yorkian Streets – a Pictorial
The locals still mostly speak Spanish, but Mexico feels a long way away. Scenes from the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn. (Click on any image in the gallery to view the [read more...]
Mexican Streets – a Pictorial
Colour, art and culture on the streets of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajauto in, central [read more...]
The Way We Roll 5 – España
It’s been a while, but finally The Way We Roll returns with Episode 5, from Spain. To view the other episodes in ‘The Way We Roll’ series, click HERE [read more...]
I’ve Left, but I Haven’t Arrived
I’m back on the road, heading north through France. Pau is now on the other side of the Altantic, working for a couple of months. I am taking the Tenere home. After [read more...]
We Used To Talk….
I was out on the street with my camera in Barcelona. A kid went by on his skateboard; it was only after I photographed him that I realised he was also ‘on the [read more...]
A Postcard from Barcelona
It’s true…. Old guys on bikes always get their girl. (Check out the sensible bloke in the expensive convertible to the left of the frame – I don’t see [read more...]
Andalucia – A Pictorial
If one region captures the essence of Spain for a visitor, it is Andalucia. Bullfighting and matadors, white-washed villages nestled in the dry hils, Moorish cities steeped [read more...]
Shutter Art, Barcelona
One characteristic that Barcelona shares with some South American cities is an abundance of street art. However, here the term needs to be more precise – [read more...]
Beauty and The Beast
It would be a statement of the obvious to point out, even to a non-rider, that the experience of riding a moto is very different to driving a car. But perhaps it is less [read more...]
Calling all XT660Z Tenere Riders…..
For anyone out there looking to modify their XT660Z, I’ve just added a detailed list of all the mods done to my bike in the ‘The Bike’ section above. Or, [read more...]
The Story Behind a Chain Oiler
The world is full of man-made things. They are all around us, woven inextricably into our daily lives. From today’s cutting-edge technologies, to infrastructure built [read more...]
Photo Journey, Poland
Being back in Europe, I took the opportunity to do some more photography training with my good friend, Johnny Fenn. Two or three times a year, Johnny runs photography [read more...]
A City on Two Wheels
From a Buenos Aires winter to a Barcelona summer. The language may be the same, but the feel of the two cities is as different as the temperatures in each. It’s only [read more...]
A Difficult Farewell – Part Two
Bolivian roads are prone to being blocked by acts of nature and protesting locals; they are also, in many places, fairly straight and usually void of traffic empty. A [read more...]
A Difficult Farewell – Part One
Buenos Aires: I’m back where is all started – two years and nine months, and 53,000 kilometres ago. The circle is complete. After returning to Peru from trips home [read more...]
A Chapter Left Unfinished – Part Two
I write a blog to entertain, inform and perhaps sometimes inspire others. I also write it to learn; choosing to share with others demands of my greater discipline in thought [read more...]
A Chapter Left Unfinished – Part One
Over the last month or so, I have been conscious that my input into the blog has faded away. To the reader, the story must have seemed to have abruptly stopped. For me, this [read more...]
Colonising Cusco
We are back in Cusco. We returned from Chile to Peru with time to spare before Paulina starts working in Huaraz and the parts I need for my moto arrive from the UK. So we [read more...]
From Road to Rally – Project 2015
It all started about 16 months ago on Easter Island – the most remote inhabited place on earth. The urban grind of Santiago, where I had been staying with Paulina in [read more...]
“Call Of The Wild” – Bike Rider Magazine (NZ)
Issue 125 (November) of BIKE RIDER MAGAZINE NZ features “Call of the Wild” – my article originally published in Free Wheeling Magazine, encouraging riders [read more...]
A Motoquero’s Camera Rig
The longer my trip has gone on, the more stuff I have managed to dispose of – or at least swap for smaller or lighter alternatives. I have progressively ‘slimmed [read more...]
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