Your Ride

How to make sure your next trip is enjoyable, the overnight stops memorable and the border crossings forgettable. There’s a real romance to just grabbing your keys, ramming some pants and a toothbrush into the tailpack and heading for the border. The freedom of just escaping without a plan is something that gets us through…

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Packing light for a quick two-up ride on the new V-Strom 1000 XT to the Welsh coast and back. It was one of those rare long weekends. The sun was out, I had a test bike still on loan, and for once the wife wasn’t at work and was oddly willing for a bit of…

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The art of combining a boys’ trip and a ride with the wife. I find that the best plans always start with a degree of confusion, and this was no exception. Barbara and I had set time aside to ride somewhere in Europe, but that was as far as the plan had got – then…

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I know the perfect place for an amazing biking weekend – but don’t tell anyone! What’s the best biking destination in the UK? Wales perhaps, or maybe the Lake District? Both have lovely roads but these tend to get a little too busy for true motorcycling enjoyment. What about the Highlands in Scotland, with all…

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There’s more to Morocco than desert. Chris and Dee Finch tackled the Atlantic coast and mountain passes. With autumn weather approaching, we couldn’t resist the lure of sunshine in Morocco – specifically, the Sahara and some spectacular passes over the Atlas mountains. We would get there as quickly as possible, taking the Portsmouth ferry to…

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As the evenings draw in, here’s one to warm your cockles – an after dark coast-to-coast ride on the shortest night of the year. It started with a casual conversation after some thought (not much) and some beer (considerably more). With roads so congested during the day, especially in the summer, why not do a…

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Keen to see how the new Yamaha SCR950 fares in the real world, Nathan Millward takes it on a trip along the east coast, through Skegness, Scarborough and Whitby. The rain was fierce in Scarborough. I’d not seen a downpour like it for quite some time and the only thing to do was huddle under…

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He was planning a 13,000-mile epic ride in the USA, so John Ward hired a Harley, right? Nope, he shipped his 13-year-old Deauville over and wrote a book about his experiences – a few extracts follow… Heading westward from Sin City, we rode into the wilderness of Blue Diamond Road towards Pahrump. There was just…

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