This is your chance to get your mug in the mag; share your adventure stories and tell us all about your two-wheeled dream machine
Name: Lee Richens | Age: 38 | Occupation: Army soldier/tour organizer
FIRST BIKE: Yamaha YB 100
CURRENT BIKE: BMW R 1200 GSA
DREAM BIKE: Got it already, but wish I could afford to keep a Harley at the same time. The wife takes the other slot in the garage with her Triumph Tiger 800 XC
FERRY OR TUNNEL: Always the tunnel. I get seasick
MOST EXPENSIVE MOTORCYCLE ACCESSORY EVER BOUGHT: BMW panniers ridiculous money!
LIFELONG AMBITION: To win the lottery so I can afford to ride around the world
IDEAL TRAVEL PARTNER: Someone who has what I would call a ‘squaddie mentality’
MOST DANGEROUS MOMENT: After riding a 550-ish mile day and extremely tired, I misjudged the harshness of an Italian tunnel bend and rode straight into the wall at around 76mph
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT: Riding the Grossglockner Pass in Austria for the first time. It was summer, about 28°C, and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The mountain tops were covered in snow and the lower slopes were bursting with evergreens
WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST WHEN TRAVELLING: A proper English cup of tea. It’s the drink of champions
PERSON YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO MEET AND THE QUESTION YOU WOULD MOST LIKE TO ASK THEM: Colonel Buzz Aldrin. I’d ask him, ‘did you really see a UFO and what was it like?’
FAVORITE CRAP JOKE? A dyslexic man walks into a bra…
WRITE A 50-WORD PERSONAL AD FOR YOU AND YOUR BIKE AS IF YOU WERE BOTH GOING TO JOIN AN ADVENTURE BIKE RIDING DATING SITE: Rugged Hog-lover looking for a sow (definitely not a pig) to spend hours of fun balls-deep in dirt, and when the day is done, washing away the filth from all those nooks and crannies. Must enjoy attention to detail when degreasing nipples. If my wife ever found out, though, she’d add some teeth to my cogs!
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