Category: On this day

1. On Book Lovers Day - Books that have inspired you to ride, travel or even fix your beloved Motorbike...

   Posted on 10:00am Wednesday 9th Aug 2017

   We recently asked the member of our facebook group, which books have inspired you to ride, travel or even fix your beloved Motorbike...
   
   Wondering if it was Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Jupiter's Travels, Race to Dakar (Charley Boorman), the very funny Bonjour! Is This Italy? or one of four great Adventure Motorcycle Travel Books by Sam Manicom? Or maybe even our own book from THE BIKER GUIDE! 
   
   Here are the results 

   Touching the World: A Blind Woman, Two Wheels and 25,000 Miles - Cathy Birchall and Bernard Smith (15 votes)     

   Jupiter's Travels - Ted Simon (9 votes)

   In Search of Greener Grass - Graham Field (5 votes)

   Into Africa - Sam Manicom (5 votes)

   Lois On The Loose - Lois Pryce (3 votes)

   These Are The Days That Must Happen To You - Dan Walsh (3 votes)

   Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (3 votes)

   and THE BIKER GUIDE book (3 votes) (we are honoured to be mentioned)
   
   Other books mentioned were 

   Old Man On A Bike - Simon Gandolfi 

   The Long Ride Home - Nathan Millward

   Notes from the Road Vol IV - Derek Mansfield

   Running with the Moon - Jonny Bealby

   Gone Riding - Dom Giles

   Is That You Angus? - Fergus O'Connel

   Without Let or Hindrance - Dick Powell

   Race To Dakar - Charley Boorman

   Bonjour! Is This Italy?: A Hapless Biker's Guide to Europe - Kevin Turner

   Red Tape and White Knuckles - Lois Pryce
   
   See our section for travel books 

    

   

2. To all the amazing ladies that ride on International Women's Day!

   Posted on 9:00am Wednesday 8th Mar 2017

   Especially as pictured - Sue Harrison, Lisa Morris (Two Wheeled Nomad) Tina Ratcliffe, Esther Carroll, Clare Hodgson and friends, Rachel Lasham (Wander On A Honda)

   

    

   #InternationalWomensDay

3. To all the amazing ladies that ride on International Womens Day

   Posted on 8:00am Wednesday 8th Mar 2017

   

    

   To all the amazing ladies that ride on International Womens Day
   Especially as pictured Liz Foulis, Rachael Connell, Julia Hall, Karen Goddard, Lisa Morris (Two Wheeled Nomad), Rachel Lasham (Wander On A Honda) and the Curvy Riders Motorcycle Club...

4. Roses are red, violets are blue, I love my motorbike, do you?

   Posted on 9:30am Tuesday 14th Feb 2017

   

5. Happy Birthday Jonathan Rea

   Posted on 9:00am Thursday 2nd Feb 2017

   Born 2nd February 1987 in Larne, Northern Ireland.

    

   Currently competing in the Superbike World Championship where he was crowned champion in 2015 and 2016.
   
   

   Jonathan was named Irish Motorcyclist of the Year in 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2016.

    

   See more on his website
   
   

   www.jonathan-rea.com