June 2018 After 16 long years and over 100,000 miles of service, it was finally time to retire my trusty British-made Altberg Clubman Roadster boots. They were still waterproof, cozy in the winter, and like a hug for my feet—but alas, they were starting to show their age. So, the Read more…
Robert Telfer has been making custom sat nav mounts for a number of years, in fact the first one I purchased was to fit my Triumph Sprint ST and when I sold the bike I left the mount on for the new owner as I had no intention of buying another Read more…
With the Triumph Street Triple R now fully run in I decided it was time to splash the cash and hit it with a few farkles, all unnecessary of course, but were on the list if and when I got around to it. The usual upgrade on any motorcycle is Read more…
After much deliberation on the purchase of luggage for the KTM 1190 Adventure I have finally settled on a modest system of the Dakar Panniers from Bags Connection. The usual solution to this problem is the aluminium type with scaffolding mounting frames which was far more than my needs required Read more…
Today has been a day that has been coming for a while, it was time to replace the ancient, crumbling excuse for a radiator that I had fitted on the Blackbird. Replacing the radiator seems to be a common issue with high mileage (50,465 in my case) Blackbirds and with Read more…
I headed off to the 2014 Motorcycle Live show with two main items on my shopping list, one of which I actually achieved and the rest consigned to the “perhaps next year” column. I arrived just before the 10am opening time so joined the lengthy queue at the entrance of Read more…
Do the words of Hugh Alan Cornwell et al. “There Just Hanging Around” apply to your biking gear? Yes? then you need to get them sorted, “hang about” you say “how can they be sorted?” Flimsy coat hangers don’t last long when hanging the great weight of a motorcycle leather Read more…
We can all spend a great deal of hard earned cash on the many leather products on the market so it makes sense to look after them. A few years ago I came across Leather Genie Balsam and after reading the entire publicity splurge I decided to give it a go. It Read more…
Like many people these days I have a ‘smartphone’ these are fantastic devices as you can use them not only to text your loved ones that you’re OK, telephone your mates to let them know you’re running late, posting your latest bike photos on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ you can even 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 originally for use in aerospace applications, all the products used Read more…
Let me get this bit out of the way first, this must be the one of the best items ever produced for a motorcycle (unless you have a shaft or belt driven bike of course) A Scottoiler is a small chamber (5 inches long) that connects into the vacuum between the Read more…
May 2002 Altberg (also known as Alt-berg) is a small company based in Richmond, North Yorkshire that originally and still do make excellent walking boots, I believe that a number of the employees at the company ride motorcycles and so they decided to start manufacturing motorcycle boots. The boots are Read more…
One of the only problems with my brand new Triumph Sprint ST is it’s plastic fuel tank, now this is not that much of a problem, except for the fact that about 4 months before I purchased my Triumph, my lovely wife bought me a brand new Oxford Ultra Sports Read more…