The Ebay sale didn't go through, so my Yamaha is still for sale. Contact me if interested.
This blog started when I owned and MZ Skorpion Traveller and a bike magazine dismissed it with the phrase 'you can't tour on a single'. The Skorpion's gone and was replaced by a Triumph Bonneville which I owned for ten years. My main bike now is a 2006 BMW R1200ST. I can't be bothered changing the name of the blog, so we're stuck with it!
Sunday, 19 May 2019
Sunday, 5 May 2019
Testing
Just a post to see if I've got my blog working again.
Yes, it looks like I have - more later.
Yes, it looks like I have - more later.
Sunday, 23 September 2018
DRG- 1 week to go!
Only a week to go to the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride where thousands of riders around the world don their most dapper clothes and raise funds for prostate cancer and mental health charities.
I'll be riding in the Glasgow Ride again and spent today giving my bike a good clean and polish.
This year I'll have my friend Jane riding pillion and her daughter Summer (age 8) will be doing some home baking for the after ride party.
Weather looks a bit more promising than last year (couldn't be much worse!), so we should have a good time.
Still time to enter, there are hundreds of rides taking place, so there should be one near you. If not, you can donate on my fundraising page.
Sunday, 2 September 2018
Holiday cabin for sale
A friend is selling a two bedroom 'off grid' (not connected to services) cabin just outside the town of West Kilbride, North Ayrshire (within walking distance of railway station). Following the birth of a child earlier this year, they've not used the cabin, so it's up for sale.
Cabin consists of an open plan lounge/kitchen/dining area, two bedrooms, and a shower room.
Lounge area with wood burning stove
Kitchen/dining area (Note: cabin has low wattage LED lighting throughout and a battery/inverter power supply system backed up by a remote control diesel generator. The generator usually lives in an outside shed but has been brought indoors whilst the cabin hasn't been in use.)
Bedroom 1
Bedroom 2
Electric shower
Cassette toilet
The cabin has a good, well surfaced access road
Cabin is offered for sale with all furniture, television, cooker, generator, etc as shown in the photos. Well insulated and all windows double glazed. Very good mobile phone signal (mast is about 200m away!), so Internet access available using a dongle. They are looking for offers around £25,000, contact me on normanwade@supanet.com including a telephone number and I'll pass it on to the sellers.
You know I'd leave the best to last - here's the view from the window!
View over West Kilbride, Seamill and the Firth of Clyde to the Isle of Arran - impressive!
Tuesday, 14 August 2018
Stolen bike
Saw this post by a German visitor who's bike was stolen. Please keep a look out for it.
Hello. My name is Heiner, I'm from Germany and my motorcycle is in the night of 05.08. was stolen from the Oxford Carpark in Newcastle Upon Tyne on 06.08.2018 while I slept in the hotel next door to take the ferry to Amsterdam. I had some nice days in England and Scotland before and unfortunately this trip had to end like this. Would it be possible to start a witness call, if someone has noticed something or if someone has my dull white BMW R 1150 GS or vllt the German license plate EL VG 14 has seen. It would also help if I could find the case that was still on the back. it is a black BMW suitcase. thanks a lot for your efforts
Owner can be contacted via Facebook here, or I can forward a message on to him.
Feel free to copy and post this message.
Monday, 6 August 2018
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