Beyond 1200

I take a long time to learn my lesson.
There are plenty of documented times when bike maintenance should have been done, but didn’t get done, resulting in a not-so-good ride. There are other times when I’ve done some slightly crazier offroad riding and broken parts, which is to be expected, and that is all in [...]

On Tuesday morning I went on the coldest ride I have ever done, at the point where I finally gave up and headed home I was actually feeling a bit scared. So how did I get into this mess?
Not So Good Preparation
Continuing with my efforts to make myself weather-proof I went to the motorbike store [...]

There’s something wonderfully refreshing about the dark.
I’m not talking that semi-dark in the city, where the distant glow of street lights are always visible, and the glaring stare of an LED is always close at hand.
Pitch black. Just you and the glow of the moon.
That’s how my ride on Tuesday morning was. It was dark, [...]