Jessica Leyne rode a Ducati Multistrada 2400 miles through Japan (and a typhoon), as part of the round-the-world 18,000-mile Globetrotter project So I’ve made it! From the bootcamp in 2016, when riders for the Globetrotter
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Dolomites, Cortina… great European destinations that aren’t the Alps. June 2015 found Chris (BMW R1200GSA), Neil (KTM 950 Supermoto) and myself (R1200GSA) following a winding route to Lake Como and back. The initial plan included
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Forget Trump, there’s a far nicer side to the US – the Rustic Roads of Wisconsin Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck wrote of Wisconsin: “Why then was I unprepared for the beauty of this region,
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TESTED BY: John Milbank¦From £539.99¦www.tranam.co.uk¦01425 620580 Seen here in the ‘Guardian Red’ colour-scheme (£599.99), the E1 is a flip-front adventure-style lid with a composite shell, internal drop-down sun visor and removable peak. It comes with
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TESTED BY: Helen Milbank¦£129.99¦www.keisapparel.co.uk¦01256 704909 A perfect complement to my X30 heated vest, these gloves offer three levels of heat through their built-in, independent controllers. Like others, the heating elements are on the backs of
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TESTED BY: Helen Milbank¦£119.99¦www.keisapparel.co.uk¦01256 704909 Being cold on a bike is never fun, and for a pillion who’s not moving as much as the rider, it can be even worse. I hate being cold, which
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Last month Steve and Julie flew into Las Vegas, picked up a couple of Harleys and set off through the desert to the Californian mountains, Yosemite and San Francisco. This time we trace their route
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The technical riding challenge intensifies as Bruce Wilson’s expedition from Johannesburg to Cape Town with Trailquest enters its final stage… The Dutch word Baviaanskloof translates roughly as the ‘valley of baboons’, but to us –
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How do you prove a bike’s reliability? Ducati sent a Multistrada 1200 off on an 18,000-mile round-the-world trip. Frenchman Laurent Cochet did the Moscow to Vladivostock stint – we join him at Lake Baikal… An
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It might take a little longer now, but the annual pilgrimage to the Bol is never going to stop… I can remember 1978. I read a magazine article on the Bol d’Or by one Zed
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