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
Due to other commitments only myself and Bob could get out today and even then I had to be home early, so we decided upon a little run into the Peak District for breakfast. We took our usual route through Lichfield and down the A515 until we stopped for petrol Read more
It was mid-August and Bob was starting to get itchy feet and he wanted to go and have a paddle in the sea (probably to soothe the itching) So early on a Saturday morning myself, Bob and Chinny jumped onto our bikes to meet up with Ray and Bonzo, we Read more
After a couple of years being unable to ride his Blackbird due to ill health it was great to see Chinny out on his bike again and as a celebration we decided to mark the event with a short ride out to Fromes Hill Cafe. After the usual excellent full Read more
It’s June so that can mean only 1 thing, it’s time for Bob, Ray and Bonzo to head to France and Spain. This year they spent 12 days to traveling down through France via the ferry crossing from Portsmouth to Cherbourg and into Spain so that Ray could have a paddle Read more
We started today’s little jaunt with breakfast outside in the glorious sunshine at the lovely canal side Cafe near Sutton Cheney known as Sutton Wharf. Here you can sit and watch the narrow boats pass by while munching on a bacon batch or in Bob’s case a nice big fry up! Read more
The Red Marley Hill Climb is classic motorcycle hill climb that takes place near Great Witley in Worcestershire. This was the 1st time I had been to this event and from what I had heard about it I was really looking forward it. Due to everyone else having other commitments Read more
We started the day meeting up with Ray and Bonzo at Fromes Hill Cafe for our usual get together and fry up. This was also the first time we had seen Bonzo’s new blackbird (The fastest Honda Blackbird colour – silver) so we spent the next 10 minutes looking over his bike Read more
Saturday morning was cold, blooming cold in fact but that didn’t stop me and Bob leaving the warmth and comfort of chateau-la-bob for the mostly dry roads of Oxfordshire in search of fried food and strong tea. The plan was to have a ride around the glorious roads of the Read more
After hearing about the lads at JangleJangle prancing around Sherwood Forest pretending to be Robin Hood, we figured we’d pop over there ourselves—though, true to form, Bob insisted on auditioning for the role of the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. I’m not sure how the tights would look on him, but Read more
I must admit that I wasn’t overly looking forward to this years NEC Bike Show, I’m not sure why but the last few years shows have just been more of the same and were getting boring but due to work commitments myself and a few of the others couldn’t make Read more
This was the tenth year of the Bristol Bike Show and for the last couple of years it was one of the shows that I had always wanted to attend but never got round to it, but this year was the exception. Rather than just jump onto the M5 and Read more
and another hot summers day so we decided to head to the coast for some ice cream, we started the day meeting up with Bonzo at Fromes Hill Cafe where we had our usual full English breakfast before heading down the A417 and then onto the A44 and Read more
Early on Saturday morning Rig and Bob left Tamworth for a trip to the seaside and down one of my favourite roads from Ashby-De-La-Zouch to Melton Mowbray where we picked up the B676 to where we stopped for breakfast at the A1 Truck Stop. After an excellent breakfast we then Read more
Saturday June 3rd 2006 Set out at 3.45am for the ferry and for once it was not freezing cold, pouring of rain or blowing a gale, but it was a bit foggy and cold. I was supposed to meet the lads around 4.15am at Newbury services but only allowing ½ Read more
We started the day at Fromes Hill cafe meeting up with Ray and Bonzo before heading off towards Ross-on-Wye and then onto the B4521 into Abergavenny where we stopped at the infamous Abergavenny bus station cafe. After leaving Abergavenny, we headed out of town onto the A40 to Brecon and then Read more
Ray and Bonzo had a little ride around Abergavenny the B4246 and the B4521 and ended up in Brecon.
We started the day at the excellent Fromes Hill Cafe where we met up with Bonzo and Ray who had travelled up from near Cardiff for our usual ride our morning ritual of coffee, bacon, egg, sausage, beans with a sprinkling of mickey taking. After fuelling up for the cold Read more
We met Bonzo and Ray in Malvern for a little tootle along the A44 to Evesham before heading along the B4035, past Shipston-on-Stour and we carried on along the B4035 almost to Bloxham where we took the A361 to Chipping Norton and then the A44/A436 into Stow-on-the-Wold before turning left onto Read more
The Brecon Beacons National Park has some of the finest views in all of Wales as well as some of the best roads a biker could dream of including the A4069 Brynamman to Llangadog but today we were going underground! We had decided to head down to the National Showcaves Read more
After bob recently scratched his Honda Blackbird, his Altberg Clubman Roadster boots were getting a little worn out (They have stood up to quite a bit of abuse over the years what with a couple of bike get offs, numerous scrapes along to road due to Bob’s right leg falling off Read more
I know! I know! after last years show I said it might be the last time we visited this show due to the size of the event, the lack of quality stall but to be honest we were in the area and thought we would give it another go. We met Read more
On a glorious July day we decided to head into North Wales to enjoy the spectacular roads and scenery that Wales offer so after stopping at our usual Welsh breakfast stop at Dinkys Dinah we headed up the A5 and then onto the B4396/B4391 into Bala where we stopped to Read more
Well it all seemed like a good idea at the beginning; four of us were going, then down to three, then to two and that just left Ray me but we decided to sod it and decided to go for it anyway, so with the GPS setup on my Honda Read more
– For today’s little ride out we had decided to head up to Leeds to have a look at the amazing collection of arms and armour that is on show that the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds but as everyone will know nothing happens before we’ve had our Read more
We started at Thunder Road Motorcycles in Bridgend for their official opening and spent a while admiring the new models (and new bikes) then we went on to a new cafe that Bonzo found called Village Farm Cafe on an industrial estate in a place called Pyle, the grub was superb! Read more
This years West Mids Riders Egg Run was a very well attended event with over 400 bikes, passengers and over 1000 easter egg’s turning up at the event starting point at the McDonalds in Bassetts Pole for a ride around Birmingham and ending up at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
