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.
Apr 20th, 2009
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.
Apr 1st, 2009
Bought myself some new wheels back in Sydney. Shiny new Triumph sportsbike. Fun fun. Same (but newer year) as the one that carried me 30,000 km around Europe and Morocco.
Braking technology on bikes just took a leap forward with Honda’s introduction of ABS in their top of the range sports bikes. A discussion of motorcycle brake technology and psychology follows.
Feb 13th, 2009
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.
Jan 26th, 2009
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):
Jan 24th, 2009
I’ve uploaded an introduction to motorcycle gear video on youtube. It’s got some quick tips on the gear needed for motorcycling. Nice and short (under 5 minutes).
Jan 22nd, 2009
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.