Left home in the cool pre-dawn for what I thought would be a morning excursion but one thing lead to another and before I knew it I’d gone Coast to Coast and still had to get home, which is near the coast so…
(more…)Bones and Coasts to Coast to…
Category: Looong Ride Reports
Goldenweek Wander – Part 7 – Homeward bound…
A great end to a good long ride!
(more…)Goldenweek Wander – Part 6
Scrabbling around the mountain passes…gates and all!
(more…)Goldenweek Wander – C2C – Part 5
Wakey Wakey hand off … Oh crap!
(more…)Goldenweek Wander – Part 4
The tyres are almost round enough for the Twistybutt….almost.
(more…)Goldenweek Wander – Part 3
Scouting the routes for the Coast to Coast is done. Headed for Hida!
(more…)Goldenweek Wander – part 2
We’re on the scout for the 2019 Coast to Coast Twistybutt…and it’s wet…
(more…)Goldenweek Wander Part 1
Let’s get this started with our riders out on the road April 28-30. Enter the trio of Oyly, John and Michael on a KTM GT and a duo of S1000XRs.
(more…)An 1100km romance with an S1000R
This particular S1000R is the top of the line 2016 model with all the factory options and around 1200km on the odometer. On first impression, it is a little odd looking with a left headlight looking like a boxer that’s taken a few too many right hooks. But everything, as oddly placed and proportioned as it is, has a place and a function. What shall we call this oddball?…
(more…)Honshu End2enD – One from the bucket list!
Having ridden coast to coast several different ways, endured some expressway marathons, scrabbled over and around a surfeit of crumbling mountain passes and even risked life and limb on a frozen northern adventure, the bar was just about high enough for one of those ‘…one day…’ rides. Yep, it was about time for a whopper.
This one goes a ways back and definitely needed some working up to. But, boy o boy is it a day dream filler!
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Touge Express 