2023
Rig’s TMBF 2023 Challenge
The Motorbike Forum challenge consists of taking a picture of your bike outside a specific number of locations, more pictures equal more points!
2021
Rig’s TMBF 2021 Challenge 100
With 2020 basically being a write-off, in more ways than one due to a myopic car driver failing to stop at a give way and writing off my Kawasaki Versys 1000 and nearly me in the process, bike riding has been dramatically reduced due to my injuries. I decided that Read more…
2019
Trip Gogledd Cymru
With the year marching on the time had come for a trip to the scenic North Wales before the great UK weather put any thoughts of that region out of the mind for another year. Initial planning included a trip to the Flintshire coast for a stop off at the Read more…
2019
Bison Run Out
Back on the Road Again…although, with apologies to REO Speedwagon, not leaving, but a return to two-wheeled adventures. It was time to get the new wheels back into the groove and have a trip out. After a two-year two-wheeled break from the roads other than a quick blast around on Read more…
Biker Friendly Cafes
Through The Gate
A roadside diner with a difference. Offering our home produced breakfasts, meats, lunches, sandwiches and drinks … either to take away or eat in!
2019
Bedford (The Bendy)
While having a mooch around the Adventure Bike Rider Forum I spotted a very interesting route that has been posted by Hammy named Bedford (The Bendy) and boy was it bendy! The route took me past Melton Mowbray and I recalled that the members of the East Midlands region of Read more…
2019
Day in the Cotswolds
While the UK was basking in unusually warm February temperatures (18 degrees Celsius) I decided to replace the front tyre as it was getting very low, well it had covered an astonishing 7,572 miles and while the rear tyre still had about 1,000 miles of tread left and had ‘only’ Read more…
2019
New Year’s Day ride to Grindleford Cafe
2019 looked like it was going to start in a very unusual fashion, it was going to warm (for the time of year, 10 degrees Celsius) and dry and with nothing planned the only sensible thing to do would be to get out on the bike. While I was contemplating Read more…
2019
Rig’s TMBF 2019 Challenge 100
For the 6th year running Rig is taking part in The Motorbike Forum UK Challenge 100 which is organised by the splendid fellows over at themotorbikeforum.co.uk. General tags. This year there are 12 tags per mainland UK region. Key: Green Bike – Racetracks Knife and fork – Café Tree – Read more…
2018
Rig’s TMBF 2018 Challenge 100
For the 5th year running Rig is taking part in The Motorbike Forum UK Challenge 100 which is organised by the splendid fellows over at themotorbikeforum.co.uk. The challenge consists of visiting 100 locations that are divided into 10 groups based on region and also 10 pubs. The pubs can be Read more…
2017
Triumph Factory Visitor Experience
The new Triumph factory visitor experiance opened it’s doors on the 1st of November 2017, and now a few weeks later I finally had time to head over to Hinckley and take a look. The Triumph factory visitor experience is located at Triumph’s factory number 2, otherwise known as their Read more…
2017
Rig’s TMBF 2017 Challenge 100
For the fourth year running Rig is taking part in The Motorbike Forum UK Challenge 100 which is organised by the splendid fellows over at themotorbikeforum.co.uk. The challenge consists of visiting 90 locations that are divided into 9 groups based on region and also 10 pubs. The pubs can be Read more…
2016
Iceni Rally 2016
This rally was one that I was looking forward to; I was totally clueless in which way to tackle this year’s event after my errors last time around. It wasn’t that my original plan was no good, in fact with hindsight it had the making of a sound rally, it Read more…
2016
2 Pubs and 2 Castles
It’s another glorious Saturday morning and with the rest of the RigsVille collective doing their own it was time to get out on the FJR and bag a few locations for this years TMBF 2016 Challenge 100. After looking at my progress map I realised that I only needed 2 Read more…
2016
Castles of North Wales
Well, would you believe it? I had another free Monday so I was up nice and early and just like last week I found myself heading west, but today’s ride would take me into north wales and also onto the magical Isle of Anglesey. My first stop of the day Read more…
2016
Aberystwyth Castle
I found myself in one of those rare occasions where I had a day off in the week and with the rest of the RigsVille collective working it was an ideal day to get out on the FJR and pick up some of The MotorBike Forum Challenge 100 tags, after Read more…
2016
National Road Rally 2016
Second attempt at this rally, and, being the easiest of the year from a riding point of view, is a fine way of spending a Saturday riding some decent roads on your chosen route without the problem of possible detours up goat tracks in the middle of Wales or Devon. Read more…
2016
2016 Biker Rallies Challenge
This was my second event organised by Rob & Barbara and they certainly work hard at the job. All the scouting that is involved must take untold hours so it is a big thank you from me to the pair of them for all their hard work. The event this Read more…
2016
Ride the County 2016
The “Ride the County” concept is a by no means small effort to raise funds for the Thames Valley Air Ambulance, this very activity brings to the fore the ever-present debate of the necessity of these events in order to raise money for what is a first class service up Read more…
2016
South West Peninsular Rally 2016
Into my second year of Motorcycle Scatter Rallies and the SWPSR is the first up on the calendar. The idea is to visit so many points during the day between 08:00 and 23:59 the start and finish being in Langley, South Somerset. This event is split into four categories: Gold Read more…
2016
Bonzo’s Rough Day Out
The day started later than usual as bob had a bit of work to see too first!, on a Saturday too, what is the world coming too?. It did give me the opportunity to take the scenic route to his place and mop up a couple of local TMBF Photo Read more…
2016
Bonzo’s Bandit Debut
According to the weathermen, the day promised to be a dry one. With this in mind Bob was eager to get the BMW R1200RS out on the road for a blast, not to mention trying out all the GoPro and associated gizmo’s he had been suckered into purchasing to make Read more…
2016
Rig’s Rainy Ride Out
After all the rain and cold weather we have recently it was great to wake up on Saturday morning to see blue(ish) skies and to feel the warm(ish) breeze, today was going to a great day for getting out on the Yamaha FJR. After a quick email conversation with Bob Read more…
2016
Billy No Mates, Blustery Day Run
Billy had been eyeing the weather forecast for the last few days and sure enough, the expected rain was hammering down, these weather forecasters were getting better. It was no all doom and gloom however, the rain was forecast to hold off over the Iceni region and it was south Read more…
2016
Billy No Mates, 5 Castles Run
End of January already, where is the year going?, Billy found himself with a free Saturday so it was all go, the weather was forecast to be on the cool side of cold but a good chance of a dry day, somewhat rare at the moment and given that storm Read more…
2016
Rig’s TMBF 2016 Challenge 100
For the third year running both Steve and Rig are both taking part in The Motorbike Forum UK Challenge 100 which is organised by the splendid fellows over at themotorbikeforum.co.uk. The challenge consists of visiting 90 locations that are divided into 9 groups based on region and also 10 pubs. Read more…
2016
Steve’s TMBF 2016 Challenge 100
For the third year running both Steve and Rig are both taking part in The Motorbike Forum UK Challenge 100 which is organised by the splendid fellows over at themotorbikeforum.co.uk. The challenge consists of visiting 90 locations that are divided into 9 groups based on region and also 10 pubs. Read more…
2015
Iron Butt Iceni Rally 2015
The Iron Butt Association seem to be the masters of the rally scene but a 36 hour rally or even the 18 hour version seemed to be a step too far for me to contemplate. Step up the inaugural running of the Iceni Rally, this is planned as an 8 Read more…
2015
Brecon to Hay Bluff
`twas another splendid August Saturday morning and we were hopig for a large turnout for today’s rideout but due to a few members of the RigsVille collective having to perform other duties only myself and Bob were out to play from the Midlands so we decided to meet up with Read more…
2015
A Rare Day Off
Finding myself with a rare day off from work and other family related duties I pondered over how best to spend such a rare and golden opportunity. Unfortunately the Infiniti Red Bull Racing team didn’t need my driving abilities today (our calendars didn’t match up) Chris Evans still had not Read more…