To Infinity and Beyond by Stephen Holmes Take two old Nortons, two old friends and follow in the footsteps, or rather the tyre treads, of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and Alberto Granado. That was the plan hatched by friends Pete Sandford and Steve Holmes inspired by the film ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’. The two Model 18 500cc [...]
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To Infinity and Beyond Book Review
March 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Motorcycle Book Reviews
Tags: Che Guevara·Infinity and Beyond Book Review·Motorcycle Diaries Book·To Inifinity and Beyond Book
TT3D Closer To The Edge Review
April 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Motorbike Films, Motorcycle News
Miraculously our local Cineworld was showing, for one night only, the 3D TT film recorded at the 2010 TT. Why miraculous? Because our Cineworld rarely (read never) shows motorcycle films. Not that I believe they have any particulat bias, just that larger towns and cities usually get first dibs and we get left out in [...]
Tags: Isle of Man TT film·TT3D·TT3D Closer To The Edge Review
A Third Wheel Book Review
July 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Motorcycle Book Reviews
A Third Wheel – The Eccentric Alternative – A Guide To Sidecars amd Trikes by Simon Potter I much prefer to read motorcycle travel stories than trawl through facts about a particular marque or indeed, as in this case, information about sidecars and trikes. However, this book landed on my desk, probably due to my [...]
Tags: how to set up a sidecar·how to set up a trike·motorcycle books uk·sidecar books
Running With The Moon – A Motorcycle Book Review
February 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Motorcycle Book Reviews
A Boys Own Adventure riding a motorbike through Africa – so says the byline. When Jonny Bealby set out on his African Odyssey by motorcycle he was already an experienced motorcycle traveller. I tell you that because he was not someone looking for their first real motorcycle adventure but rather an ordinary chap who had [...]
Tags: jonny bealby book·motorcycle adventure book·overland motorcycle adventure·Running With The Moon book
Quentin Tarantino’s Hell Ride Review
January 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Motorbike Films
I’ve read that in producing this film Quentin Tarantino was using the Seventies biker film genre as his inspiration and in that respect he succeeded in making a reproduction of how truly awful those films were. If you believe that at very biker bar there are half-naked and completely naked women cavorting around in mud [...]
The Hunt For Puerto Del Faglioli by Paddy Tyson – Book Review
January 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Motorcycle Book Reviews
So, where’s that then? Is the thought that immediately springs to mind, especially if like me you have read a few motorcycle travel books and like to think you have a reasonable geographical knowledge. But Puerto Del Faglioli? never heard of it? Read on….. Paddy Tyson is one of a slowly growing group of what [...]
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Overland To India Book Review
December 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Motorcycle Book Reviews
Second only to my love affair with Ural Motorcycles and Sidecars is the one that has been going on since the early 1990s with Enfield Bullets. Way back then, in the mists of time, there was a programme on TV about how Enfield Bullets were still being made in India and had just started being [...]
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Vroom By The Sea Book Review
September 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Motorcycle Book Reviews
Vroom By The Sea is the second book by Peter Moore set in Italy travelling by Vespa. Peter meets up with old friend Marco, Vespa mechanic extraordinaire, who looked after Sophia the Vespa from Vroom With A View, following Peter’s return to the UK. For this trip Marco arranges for Peter to buy a 1972 [...]
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Jack Daniels TT T-Shirt
January 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Motorbike Films, Motorcycle Book Reviews, Motorcycle Reviews
Classic Motorcycles purveyors of lots of great Classic goodies on which to spend your hard-earned have just launched another t-shirt in their Isle Of Man 2009 TT range. This is a particularly splendid t-shirt in the Jack Daniels style as you can see from the photo. It is printed on both sides with the famous [...]
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Red Tape and White Knuckles Book Review
September 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Motorcycle Book Reviews
Red Tape and White Knuckles is the story of the journey by motorcycle traveller Lois Pryce down the length of Africa. Ever since reading Jupiter’s Travels by Ted Simon the possibilities of overland travel has excited me but, unlike Lois, aside from a bit of safe European travel that is about as far as I [...]
Tags: Lois on the Loose·Lois Pryce·Red Tape and White Knuckles book review