The National Motorcycle Museum occupies an 8-acre (32,000 m2) site in Bickenhill, Solihull, England and holds the world’s largest collection of British motorcycles. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Grim Riders Motorcycle History Trail Google Map National Motorcycle Museum
The Coventry Transport Museum (formerly known as the Museum of British Road Transport) houses a collection of British-made road transport, the reason it’s located in Coventry because the city was previously the centre of the British car industry. There are Read more
It’s March 2013 already but unfortunately due to the poor weather we having been having this is the first time we have managed to get out and bag our first location in this year’s Grim Riders charity motorcycle challenge, the Read more
The Touchdown Cafe is based at Wellesbourne Mountford Airfield and it is an extremely popular cafe with pilots using the airfield as well as bikers.
The B4246 from Blaenavon to Abergavenny is only around 6 miles long but as you come out of Blaenavon the road winds uphill, before a great view of the Black Mountains unfolds in the distance. From here, it’s a sharp descent through Read more
Fromes Hill is located on the A4103 between Hereford and Worcester and is part of Fromes Hill services, the place is very easy to find due to the very large Tank outside!
Queenswood Cafe is a lovely timber framed building in Queenswood Country Park on the A49 between Hereford and Leominster at the top of Dinmore Hill.
Another stop on the 2012 Sculpture Trail ride: Anish Kapoor’s Temenos, looming over the north-east corner of Middlesbrough Dock in Middlehaven like some giant alien antenna picking up cosmic vibes from Teesside. At 110 metres long and pushing 50 metres Read more
Bob and Bonzo, connoisseurs of quirky road trips, fired up the Honda Blackbirds and set off for the north of England with a cheeky detour into Scotland, on a mission to bag the last stops of this year’s Grim Riders Read more
Another stop on the 2012 Sculpture Trail ride: Henry Moore’s King & Queen, sitting regally over Glenkiln Reservoir with enough majestic charm to make you wonder if it’s secretly running the local sheep population. It’s just one of several sculptures Read more
Another one for the 2012 Sculpture Trail ride: a pair of towering scrap metal giraffes that turned up outside the new Omni Centre in Picardy Place back in 2005, and have been stopping traffic ever since. Helen Denerley built the Read more
Next stop on the 2012 Sculpture Trail ride: the Angel of the North, Antony Gormley’s colossal steel guardian that’s kept watch over Gateshead since 1998, perched on a hill above the A1, A167 and the East Coast Main Line like Read more
Last one on the 2012 Sculpture Trail loop: the Apollo Pavilion in Peterlee, a slab of brutalist concrete that’s spent most of its life dividing opinion. Victor Pasmore built it between 1963 and 1970, part sculpture, part footbridge, and the Read more
Bob and Bonzo, armed with their trusty Honda CBR1100 Super Blackbirds—aka the two-wheeled jets of the road—set off on an epic adventure to Aberystwyth. Their noble quest? To hunt down the holy trinity of a perfect day out: Sun, Sea, Read more
The Empowerment was designed by the artist Stephen Broadbent, sponsored by Alstom Power (now Siemens), and completed in 2002, the sculpture spans the River Witham in Lincoln’s City Square. It takes the form of two aluminium-and-steel human figures reaching to Read more
The Halo Smart Clean is a multi stage process that removes road grime, salt, old waxes and co-polymers from the bike before applying a coating of ACF-50 to protect the bike from corrosion. With the exception of the ACF-50 which was designed Read more
On our way to visit to the Dream sculpture in St. Helens and Another Place sculpture in Crosby all part of the Grim Riders Sculpture trail ride 2012 we decided to head north into the Peak District, we also decided Read more
Dream sculpture in St. Helens. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map
Another Place Sculpture in Crosby. Websites: Grim Riders Web Site Sculpture Trail Ride Google Map Google Street View Map
Once again, Bob, Bonzo and Ray loaded up the bikes and headed south in search of something. Nobody had thought to establish what that something actually was before leaving, which, with hindsight, may have been the first mistake. France came Read more
The Ace Cafe, just off the North circular in London is one of the worlds most famous cafes, it was opened in 1938 and soon became very popular with bikers as it still is these days.
The Ponderosa cafe is located at the top of the infamous Horseshoe Pass near Llangollen, Wales and is probably one of the best known biker friendly cafes in the UK.
The Cafe Express is part of Crossgates service station complex at the junction of the A44 and A483 Nr Crossgates and as with most of the places listed here it’s very popular with bikers of a weekend, the food is the typical freezer to fryer kind of stuff and would never win any awards but it’s clean, edible and the staff are always friendly, what more could you want?
After selling my Triumph Sprint ST I spent all my spare time reading Internet forums, searching eBay and even looking in local newspapers in search of inspiration for a new bike until eventually I found a nice looking Honda CBR1100xx Blackbird
Simply start from Newtown and follow the signposts for the A483 towards Llandrindod Wells. From here you’ve got over 23 miles of what could be one of the best motorcycle roads in the whole country. When you reach the island Read more
Starting from traffic lights on the junction of the A40/A466 in Monmouth turn right onto the A466 sign posted Chepstow This is a lovely twisty road that hugs the River Wye on the Wales/England border and passes the beautiful village Read more
Starting from the A40/A49 roundabout near Ross-on-Wye, head along the A49 for just over a mile towards Peterstow. When you reach Peterstow, turn left onto the B4521 and follow this road all the way to Abergavenny. It’s a route that Read more
Starting from Dolgellau, follow the A470 towards Barmouth, but after about a mile turn right onto the A494 to Bala. After Bala, turn left onto the A4212. This is a great road that has you winding past a picturesque landscape Read more
Start from Tenbury Wells and follow the signs for the B4204 towards Worcester. It’s an easy road to pick up and a pleasant one to ride, taking you through the Worcestershire countryside with the Malvern Hills never far from view. Read more
