Archive for 2010

Vitesse Boots

I currently have in the cupboard a variety of unsuitable riding boots. One pair are simple walking boots/shoes with little protection and which I have already stopped using. Another pair are also short height boots/shoes from Alpinestars that after a days riding bite into my arch no matter what I […]

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V2 visor sponge

I admit freely I am often slow to recognize a good thing. Be it I get too absorbed elsewhere or follow the herd or end up going round in circles before realizing I had it right to begin with. And that’s just motorcycles, the harder stuff of one’s personal life […]

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Japan Ride 2010

This post is out of date and predates my living in Japan. Please go to my Japan menu for more recent and better posts about riding Japan. Despite a major incident on tour I again enjoyed riding in Japan. My original plan got washed out due to the unseasonable arrival […]

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Textile rider gear repairs

I needed to make some repairs to my Alpinestars textile pants which I managed to touch against the hot exhaust of the Honda CBF600 whilst on tour in Germany. It only took a couple of seconds to melt the outer nylon and inner layer and lucky there is mesh inside […]

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Kawasaki Good Time World

I visited the Kawasaki world in Kobe Japan. It is not a large display however reading about the other things Kawasaki build was of great interest. For example I knew they made some of the trains operating in Tokyo however not also many other cities trains in Japan and Asia […]

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Europe Alps Tour

Ultimate Alps Tour with Edelweiss In May 2020 during the lockdown I revisited this post and realised I had at the time barely written anything about this tour and posted a mere dozen images that were straight from the camera (since I did not start post processing my photos until […]

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Held Score gloves

This was written some time ago when Held had just 6 different motorcycle gloves, Held have since expanded with 1000’s of new items and most are made in China, but this post is about their original gloves. I have been talking about getting new gloves for the tour and I […]

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Be Seen, Be Safe ?

2023 update. Apologies all the links in this article seem to be now broken and the reports referenced are no longer on the sites that originally had them nor can I find them elsewhere. I leave this post here for now but may delete in future if I cannot fix […]

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Joe Rocket Meteor boots

I have purchased some new riding footwear and have chosen a pair of Joe Rocket Meteor boots. I decided I wanted to go for a 3/4 boot that was waterproof. Larger than this becomes less easy to walk in and wear under pants. Being waterproof I think is important if […]

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Helmet Windjammer

I took my previous Shark RSR helmet out for a spin yesterday to revisit an item designed to cut wind noise on helmets I had purchased some years ago. Called the Windjammer II from Proline Sports UK I first purchased this to use on a KBC helmet I previously owned […]

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Easter New England Tablelands Ride

4 days off work with more of less half decent weather seemed too good to just sit around home. Thursday evening I hatched a half baked plan to do a ride to the Tablelands way and getting all my gear ready and working out a route took late into the […]

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Meltdown tour

This post was edited and photos processed  2019 After previously having to cancel this ride I was determined to go this time no matter what so I set out only to ride into one of the hottest days on record. Yes that is 44 degrees or 111F in the old […]

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