Search:

My pockets are always full of snacks, so I'm sure I can live without a mid-ride cuppa and cheese toastie for once. But, you know....

On Monday, I'll be taking a daytrip to the Forest of Bowland from Hawes. It'll be less than a 120 miles as I want to save energy for a longer trip to the North Pennines the next day. Hopefully a...

I'm not going to.

There's the underside strap going under the locked down pillion seat.

There will be two straps going to and from the rear corners of the bag, ducking under the tail by two...

I always supposed that once I progress from my 125 I'd be getting a top box, now I know for sure.


The underside of the bag has a strap that can go under the removable pillion seat.

Annoyingly...

Just learnt that the Manor Farm Cafe at Bellerby has new management. The hours and menu have slowly built up and it seems to be fully operational now.

Maybe I should loop the two rear corner straps under the tail, so they're both going from one side of the bike to the other?

https://i.postimg.cc/jjNzyyth/17149280156263276158477995685887-01.jpg

Just had a trial go at attaching my roll bag to the pillion seat of my CB125R.

There's a fat single strap that gets locked in place by feeding it under the pillion seat. The only possible four...

Lovely ride in the Wolds and Howard Hills, with an accompanying pitter patter of tiny deaths on my visor. At one point I felt myself wipe out an entire family of weeny bugs in one go.

Since it's good to have it as well-grooved habit when it's needed, I've been looking for every opportunity to take a steep hairpin at in 1st gear. On the flat, my 125 is very tetchy in first, but on...

Took the A19 up to Yarm, against a very unhelpful headwind, then turned west and went to Barnard Castle. Then south to Langthwaite, over to the Tan Hill Inn and south via Keld and the Buttertubs Pass...

I dunno, I do prefer

https://colchesterkawasaki.co.uk/upload/images/---2024%20Kawasaki/Z650RS/2024%20Z650RS%20RD.jpg

to
...

Having thoroughly enjoyed my daydreams of the various 350 Royal Enfields, I'm having an even better one about the Interceptor 650. Ultimately its a bit too retro for me, but thinking about how it...

Bike got whatever you call a service 4,000 miles after the 600 miles service. They seemed to think everything is fine. On Thursday I might get to go for a real ride, not just trudging up and down the...

I didn't

I've decided that if I were the kind of guy who just wanted a bike to pootle over to Masham on a Sunday morning, have a brew and a bacon roll and good old natter before turning round and pootling...

I got a bit too close to the North Sea today, whilst fabricating a nonsense route to Hull, and oh my word the chill of the easterly wind. Made the sunshine totally irrelevant.

Since T does like his nice things to be nice, I'm enjoying the thought of his pride and joy having a proper home, and also the thought of his having a second bike for when circumstances might not be...

How sick am I of the A1079? Very sick. What a tedious road. Have done 425 miles in the last 5 days. Yesterday going over the Wolds the headwind really had it in for me, wouldn't have gone out in that...

When I passed this pub on Thursday, I felt guilty for not stopping, what with it being called The CB Inn:

https://i.postimg.cc/HxmW2XYL/Screenshot-20240413-162910-Maps.jpg

It was one of his videos that helped me first come to the conclusion that the 500F was what I wanted :)

I've watched several of these videos on the new NX500, just as I did with the previous 500X....

https://i.postimg.cc/tRKL5HjT/17129466206057801813184851352080-01.jpg

Woke this morning to the news that my octogenarian mum has put herself in hospital with a broken something, so I guess my mileage is going to take a step up as I swap my enthusiastic beginner's...

A heart-rending tale! :dejection:

Leaving my Direct Access until after my trip in May. Once I've a full license, I would be astonished if I buy anything other than a CB500F in Unnecessary Yellow:
...

Found the clouds had lifted a bit while I was having lunch so went north over Buttertubs, north to Keld and then north again to Tan Hill Inn, where I turned east, eventually coming down...