Last Sunday and Monday, I was on BMW’s off-road skills course. It was wet. Which was nice. Wet meant slippery and there was a lot of crashing, from low-speed muppetry, to a proper 50mph off when practising acrobatics. I picked up my XChallenge often: only BMW would think that a […]
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Responsibility
I love my KTM, and giving it a good pasting, but I’m fed up of seeing KTM riders monowheeling a couple of feet off the bumper of the car in front, or soaring through the traffic with a huge speed differential. In the last ten months, I have seen the […]
Read MoreK1200S at Cadwell, Jun 2006
Last summer, I took a track day at Cadwell. What a great circuit: highly 3D with some fast stretches and several bottle checks. A smaller bike might have been a good idea, but where’s the adventure in that? (That’s me, at the front again. I think the instructor was just […]
Read MoreMy first time
On a bike that is. I’m on the left, in the lead (obviously). I was about 8 IIRC and I fell off seconds later, but I think I managed a few laps before and after.
Read MoreDriving’s great, but it’s not as good as the real thing
Magnificent ride home last night on the KTM from London. Left the M4 at the usual place, with dusk gathering and made it home just as the last of the light left. The lanes were empty and the countryside beautiful. I spotted a lone white horse in a verdant shallow […]
Read MoreRiding home from London
Don’t just follow the M4. Leave at the westernmost junction near Reading (whatever number it is) and do the obvious thing: south then third exit (north) off the second roundabout, turning left into the lanes. Just keep following the sun and you end up joining the B road from Newbury […]
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