OK so take a look round your garage. What do you see – a beautifully ordered workplace in which you can carry out accurate and precise maintenance to your bike? Or is it a dumping place for just about everything that the family don’t want in the house from welly boots to cycles, behind which is your […]
Is there anything better than a riding trip away with your mates? From mid-week rides on a day off work to weekend ride-outs, and even weeks away on the trails and back roads, it’s good to get away and twist the throttle. But if you are anything like the guys we ride with, packing is […]
After the runaway popularity of our initial twelve inconvenient truths of off – road riding, we thought we’d revisit the subject. It’s all very well telling our readers all the shiny and great bits about riding bikes, but what about the dark side? What about the things we all kind of know but put to the back […]
Australian helmet manufacturer VOZZ have released images and video of their ground breaking new helmet. The new helmet uses a unique rear access method for riders to put it on, and once clipped shut, no straps are needed to secure it in place. According to Managing Director Mark Bryant the new design has been certified for […]
Riding a motorcycle can be hard work. Whether you are muscling your adventure bike through a Moroccan desert or slogging your trail bike through axle deep mud in a forest in the middle of nowhere, it’s common for both you and the machine to get a tad hot under the collar. THE MIGHTY KTM 1090 […]
Morning all and welcome to the March edition of our newsletter. In the UK, the weather has just started to improve slightly so at least the rain is warmer now, and the clocks have gone forward, so that evening rides are a possibility once more. OK it’s not Vietnam in the sunshine, but for those […]
Crossing water on a motorcycle – A simple guide. Crossing water on a motorcycle, whether rivers, water splashes or just deep puddles is one of the regular features of off road riding. For some it’s an exciting thing and a chance to pit your skills against the unknown, for others it sends a chill running […]
If you are anything like us, you learned how to ride a bike quite a while ago. Perched on a little dirt bike in a field, your dad sat on the back and showed you how to let out the clutch while feeding in the throttle before progressing into how to change gear. And with […]
Ok so we all know that riding bikes opens us up to all kinds of really nasty injuries. Whether self-inflicted or from the unwanted attentions of other vehicles, bits of the landscape or even other riders, the amount of harm we can do to ourselves is quite impressive. But way down on the scale from […]
Back in December, we ran a promotion with the Dave Thorpe Honda Off-Road Centre to win a free Enduro day in South Wales . All you had to do was send us an email to and we popped all the names into the hat. So, the draw was made at the end of January as […]