If riding an electric bike gets you out of the house and on a bicycle then they're doing their job. You still have to pedal them to get any help and the motor stops helping at 15mph so I make a point of keeping the average speed on mine over 15mph over a mixture of road and off road riding. It's not...

I'm happy to weight a pedal on my mountain bike but where I came unstuck earlier this year was when I ended up in the bottom of a rut and when it reached the point where the rut was deeper than the centre line of the pedal crank the inevitable happened and I exited sideways. Two cracked ribs and a f...

I have these still sat in the garage, if you are interested? http://www.adventurebikerider.com/forum/28-for-sale-wanted/487360-wolfman-expedition-dry-saddlebags.html#487360 Thanks Tigerman. I stupidly hadn't realised these needed racks so not for me. I've got a set for my 1190 Adventure and they do...

I feel that life cheated me by making me so old that I missed the opportunity to spend my year as a 16 year old on my first motorised vehicle riding a restricted Honda. Life was also unfair enough to make me feel forced to go straight from my unrestricted 50cc moped onto an RD250 which a couple of m...

I don't do the welding, I just make sure the machinists get the weld preps right so the welders don't sit around waiting while the butts are set but I've never heard of any of them being tested in the morning and that goes for coal, gas and nuclear powered stations. There won't be any more really bi...

After leaving school I did a 5yr apprenticeship as a Plater/welder and qualified as a coded welder. I was also schooled in the skills of machining and fitting and continued this career for almost 20yrs. But with advent of government schemes designed to turn kids into skilled welders, plumbers, bric...

It's a rotten time of the year if things aren't going well but in most cases we're built well enough to be able to take the knocks and get up again. my dad was told on the 23rd December last year that he'd got 6 months if things went well but my parents kept it until a few days into January before t...

Well christmas in uk and usa is commercialism with a capital C.... I dont do christmas in uk so for the 9 or is it 10th year in a row we are off to France in the motorhome its a traditional time in mainland europe... Used to go to far east or india and share in other religions celebrations.... At l...

noticed some of the stuff i like such tl1000s are starting to make money, who would have thought steve The profit part depends on when you bought it because they've not got even close to their new price yet. Another one that so many people say is a wise investment is a 916 which is true if you boug...

I did say earlier that I wondered if it had been restricted for some reason.