To be honest this really wasn’t our 1st ride of 2010, we have spent many days, hours and miles over the extended winter it’s just that we have not really gone or done anything interesting (and this is??) but this was the 1st time that we had all managed to Read more
Another Saturday morning and another excuse to get together for a ride out and a breakfast, unfortunately I was unable to meet up with Bob, Chinny and Bonzo at Fromes Hill cafe where they started the day with a Big Boy breakfast before heading south towards Fowlers Motorcycles in Bristol Read more
As Chinny was unable to make this trip in April he and Bob decided to brave the wind and rain and have a short 400 mile ride so that Chinny could add the Lake District National Park and the Yorkshire Dales National Park to his list of national park’s he Read more
Bob and Bonzo had already had a ride up to Scotland to bag the 2 Scottish national parks in July but unfortunately Rig couldn’t make it due to work commitments, but now it was August and with a weekend off and nice weather forecast it was time for part 2. Bob Read more
Bob, Bonzo and Chinny had already managed to bag Pembrokeshire National Park (photo’s below) but due to work commitments I was unable to go along with them at the time, fortunately this weekend I happened to have a rare Saturday free and although Bob and Chinny were unable to come Read more
Where shall I start?, well there were supposed to be four of us to go on this trip up to Scotland as a finale to completing the British National Parks Challenge but unfortunately Chinny dropped out because he couldn’t get the time off from work… Bugger! At the very last Read more
Saturday morning and after a few cups of tea at Bob’s house we decided to head out for a breakfast at one of our favourite places, the Touchdown Cafe at Wellesbourne Airfield. Once we had fuelled up our bikes, Myself, Bob and Chinny made to 20 mile rider over to Read more
Snowdonia National Park is located in North Wales and was the first national park in Wales, the national park covers over 800 square miles it’s also home to the highest mountain in England and Wales (Snowdon) and the largest natural lake in Wales (Bala) so with that in mind and the Read more
– We no longer recommend the Salt Box cafe, over the last 12 months we have had very poor service, quality of food and noticed hygiene issues.
Today’s ride out was going to involve a lot of motorway miles, we were planning on getting down to the South West and unfortunately there’s only really one way of getting there quickly and that’s the M5. We left Bob’s house after our usual pre bike ride cuppa courtesy of Read more
Early Saturday morning and it’s another great weekend away on our bikes and this time we had a cunning plan, we aimed to visit the North of England and visit as many of the national parks as we could as part of the British National Parks Challenge. Unfortunately Chinny would Read more
Once again Bonzo’s craving for ice cream, sand castles and dirty seagulls took over and whilst we were busy tucking into our full English breakfasts at Crossgates Cafe he persuaded (pleaded more like) for us to head over to Aberystwyth for him to satisfy his sick primeval urges. Luckily for us the road Read more
Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Grim Riders British National Parks Ride 2009 Google Map
As most of us had now signed up to the British National Parks Ride we decided that we had better get started and went looking for our 1st point of the challenge. We decided to meet up with Bonzo (Ray was still off the road after last week’s incident and Read more
It’s never a good day when a mate goes down, but thankfully this story has a happy ending, at least as far as Ray is concerned. Ray came unstuck rounding a roundabout near Cardiff, losing the front end and sliding off his CBR1000. Fortunately, he walked away with nothing more Read more
This was intended to be our 1st proper ride out of the year, OK that’s not exactly true as we had been out a number of times battling the frozen roads around the West Midlands, including a couple of trips out for a quick breakfast to the Long Itch Diner Read more
It was a very cold day on Saturday as we sat at Bob’s house drinking tea and talking bollocks, nothing unusual there it must be said but while twittering away we eventually decided to head south into the Cotswold’s and hopefully end up at Fox’s Diner for a warming breakfast. Read more
Well we started our Saturday ride out in our usual way by meeting up with Bonzo and having a nice breakfast at Fromes Hill cafe where afterwards we were planning on going to go to Rhayader as the scenery is amazing this time of year and the tourists are still Read more
Bob and Bonzo met up at Fromes Hill cafe for a small bite to eat before heading east to the picturesque village of Bourton-on-the-Water in the Costwolds.
Well it all started with a bike clean on the 17th of September as we were not going to get much work done so the next morning Chinny was knocking on my door about 4.20am and after a cup of tea and a chat, we load the bikes up and Read more
After I sold my previous Triumph Sprint ST I started the search on what I wanted to ride next, after looking around for a week or 2 I decided that I really loved the Triumph Sprint ST so I went and bought another one!
After a couple of years in the wilderness without a bike Hank went and got himself another bike, this time he purchased a extremely well looked after Triumph Trophy 1200.
It had been over 2 years since we had last been to ‘Sunny Hunny’ so we thought it was about time we headed east and sampled the delights that Hunstanton had to offer, no we are not talking about cockles and mussels (alive, alive-O!) We decided to stop early in Read more
Saturday morning was nice, warm and dry so Bob and Chinny decided to meet up with Ray and Bonzo over at Crossgates cafe for breakfast before heading into Aberystwyth so that Bonzo could have a paddle while eating his ice cream and Chinny could catch up with his daughter and Read more
Due to my eldest son’s birthday being on the Saturday I couldn’t make the trip to Aberystwyth to eat ice cream and look at students…cough…err, I mean look at classic cars so instead me and Bob set out the following day for a little ride around a few of our Read more
It’s Saturday so that means only 1 thing, You’ve Been Framed is on! Ohh and it’s time to get the bikes out for yet another episode of the amazing adventures of Rig, Bob, Chinny, Ray and the unforgettable Bonzo! Only as usual Rig couldn’t make it today due to “family Read more
Saturday was a surprisingly beautiful sunny day for February so we decided to meet up with Bonzo and Ray at Jo’s Place Cafe on the A40 near Monmouth, the only problem was that as usual we were running a little late so that forced us to use the quikcer M42/M45/M50 route Read more
We kicked off the day with our usual grand meetup at Fromes Hill Cafe, where we were joined by Bonzo and Ray — because what’s a ride without a few mates and a solid breakfast to start the engine? As always, the food was top-notch, probably making every other cafe Read more
Grindleford Station Cafe was the chosen destination for today’s ‘quick’ ride out — well, quick by biker standards, anyway. It was only 80 miles away, but we were on a serious time crunch. We agreed that a hearty full English breakfast was absolutely mandatory, even if it meant having to Read more