Blimey. Some jolly spiffing old motorcycling motion pictures here chaps ..

http://www.britishpathe.com/search/query/motorcycle

Thats my afternoons entertainment sorted! :whistle:

Great little series of videos following Ross Nobles attempt at the Red Bull Romaniacs 2011 ..

http://www.adventure-spec.com/default/b ... deo-series

It's scary how much I want one of these..

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Like others have said - we added insurance before we left (Carol Nash). We got a small amount of Dirhams in Algeciras before we left Spain, the rates are pretty bad, but it's handy. We crossed at Ceuta and had no problems at all, but found Tetouan to be full of people eager to prey on un-savvy touri...

Noticed a recent Citreon advert with a blind spot detector, a great idea on a car from a bikers perspective obviously, but I thought that would be quite a nifty idea on a bike too. Obviously not a life-saver replacement, but every bit of help seems like a good idea. Looking around the web I was surp...

I did my first long distance tour to Morocco last year and would have loved to have just grabbed a map and ridden off, but with such a tight budget after saving for so long I did feel a certain amount of pressure to make sure I didn't miss anything while I was there. This led to quite an amount of p...

RAM mounts .. RAM Mounts

Only issue I had was the iphone tilt detector tilting the screen when I went round corners.

Quite interesting maps of tourism density based on data taken from geo-tagged photographs posted on Google...

http://www.bluemoon.ee/~ahti/touristiness-map/

.. handy for those trying to escape the masses.

Off to Iceland this year, via Denmark for first time. Plus a local jaunt around Normandy - friend just bought a farmhouse their and I'm looking forwards to being a WW2 tour guide for a while.

Saw plenty of animal cruelty there last year - cobras with fangs "fixed", baby apes being caught nr Azrou, chameleons for sale as spell ingredients, big cat skins, mules being beaten etc. Animals are just tools to make money for many there. It is worth being aware of before you go if you'r...