Talk about trauma. drama and facing your demons. Within the first hour of yesterday morning I'd been through the mill and this is why. The Sprint was in for an MOT, the Tiger got picked up for some major surgery down in South Wales and the Transalp was back with Honda. Holly mother of Mary, I was bikeless. Anyway, I managed to get over all that with a nice sit down, a cup of tea and a dunking biscuit but the scars remain.I picked up the Sprint with its new MOT just after 5pm and with the weather on side thought I'd have a blast down to Chippin...
Hello there. This is a technical blog, one in which I'm going to discuss the finer inner workings of computer coding, though, for the sake of your boredom and my head staying intact I'll restrict it to PHP, Mysql, Apache and a little CSS, Java and HTML.Well that's more than enough of that, let's talk bikes. I've been working most of last night and some of today fixing up a review section for all those lovely motorcycles designed to help us live our dreams and empty our wallets. And you can see the rotting fruit of my feeble effort here. Actuall...
Good morning. It's a wild, windy, showery day in Stratford upon Avon and I'm due to set off to London within the hour. But first I have to deal with a serious bout of gear anxiety.My gear anxiety levels have grown over the years as I've assembled a wardrobe to rival a squadron of super models - I'll be contacting the Oxford English Dictionary to submit 'squadron' as the collective word for Kate Moss and co presently. It's a dilemma alright. Which jacket will best shrug off today's showers (as if they are any different from yesterdays), what th...
I'm currently running a very complicated social scene with the multiple bikes in my life. Trying to find the time for all involved means there's just not enough of me to go around and the inevitable has happened, the relationships are breaking down. As of next Tuesday the Transalp is going back to her past life with Honda, the new bought Tiger is taking time away and going in for an engine rebuild on Wednesday which means I'm left with my old flame, the Triumph Sprint. With the arrival of the newer, younger Transalp I've been neglecting the old...
If you live in Stratford upon Avon you learn about life, stay cool and take things in you're stride. We're all like that here. I mean what else would you expect from a population that lives with the constant presence a certain resident of old who taught us that love and tragedy are simply a daily occurrence, a bit like toast and Marmite if you like. Anyway, the new love of my life has gone and thrown a crank shaft bearing........Aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh. That's right, the Tiger which I've owned for all of three days...
Well, I threw in the towel over the weekend and went intravenous with the intoxicating elixir that goes under the name of multiple bike syndrome. The way I see it, there's just no point in fighting something that's far too big and powerful to resist. Best to just go with the flow and do something productive such as throwing caution to the wind. Yes, that's code for; I've gone and bought a Triumph Tiger. But not any old Tiger, my hard earned left my sweaty palm in exchange for a 'Steamer'. A 'steamer' is the affectionate name given to the old ...
Good morning. Well the nail-biting lasted long into the night as I watched the Ebay time clicker run down on the Pan with the price hovering around the £3000 mark. The bike in question was first registered in 2000 and had only 7,000 miles on the clock with all the service and MOT's to back up the claim. Not a scratch or scrape was in sight.As the sweat gathered on my brow into small glistening drops that gravity sent rolling over the edge of my nose and onto the keyboard the battle between the two guys in my head played it's course. 'Go o...
I'm seriously thinking that I need to visit a councillor specialising in motorbike delirium. That said, a modicum of sense is returning between the ears today as I fight the urge to bid on the Pan and the Tiger on Ebay. Just what am I thinking? Here we are in an economic crisis, I've two bikes I can use; (the Sprint I own and the Transalp is on loan) and I'm seriously thinking of buying two more bikes - though I would sell the Triumph Sprint, in time, if I liked the Pan. I think.I've never had these urges with cars or other 4 wheeled motors. In...
Well, it had to happen, and I'm afraid this is it. I've decided to come out of the closet and write another blog.If I'm understanding things correctly then a blog is like a diary, where I'm supposed to write about really boring things that are happening to me right now, or at least, interesting things that no one wants to read that happened in the not too distant past. To cover all readers needs, I'll do both.First up; about about a year ago I sat down and wrote a list of all the exciting adventures I was going to do over the coming 12 months a...
I've been too busy with Adventure Travel magazine over the past two months to do anything with this site other than wish I had more time to work on it. I'm hoping to do something about that over the next 6 months, oh, yeah.The good news - I've spent lots of time out on the Transalp (one of the reasons I've not had time for the site I guess) and have come to the conclusion it's a fantastic machine. Probably the most comfortable and no stress bike i've ever ridden.I've also paid my first ever visit to the Ace Cafe on the north circular down in Lo...
To use on on-line euphemism, you never forget your first blog,. Anyway, this is it, my first blog about setting up this site www.adventurebikerider.comMy name is Alun Davies and 15 years ago I founded a magazine called Adventure Travel. Last year I sacked myself as editor to concentrate on developing the magazines web site which you can check out here www.atmagazine.co.ukSo why bikes? Well, since the age of 14, when I first plonked my backside on an unstable CZ 175 I've been hooked and there can't have been 6 months since that day when I've bee...
After an absolutely mad weekend which seen us cover approx 1300 miles I thought it time for a little gentle stroking of the Sprint, it sort of calms me. Fortunately the new high screen I ordered off Sprint Engineering had arrived over the weekend so with screwdriver in hand I wheeled the Triumph into a sunny spot and set to work.
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