Category Archive for 'On the road'

Considering the near hysterical response to some isolated yob of a cyclist thumping a bus driver, why aren’t we hearing calls for private car owners to be banned from the roads after this attack: “Car owner bashed ranger and bit cheek”?

As soon as you mention you’ve been touring on motorbike the conversation immediately turns to talk about the series “The Long way round”. This is both flattering and insulting to motorcyclists, so a parody was bound to happen.

I’m back in Sydney after three and a half or so years of working my way through firstly Hong Kong and then the UK. As usual with me moving country: it was down to a last minute rush to get everything packed.

The sun was rather low in the horizon and directly in front of me on the road as I headed west in Morocco.
Like any safe rider I decided I was spending too much time worrying about something and not enough about riding itself.
My solution (courtesy of my trusty roll of Gaffer tape):

Not quite sure what the lower half of Europe has against milk, but there seems to be a concerted effort to marginalise or banish milk from anywhere obvious. Even tracking down UHT milk is a bit of a tough task with it usually stuffed somewhere between the scouring pads and the drain cleaner (maybe that [...]

My first attempt at a video mini-documentary kinda thing of my most recent tour. I’m kinda proud of it, think it was a fun project. Tried to mix it up a bit, make it a bit more interesting than 10 minutes of riding down a free-way.

The big journey to morocco begins with some bumps as a puncture and no sleep kicks off this tour.