Touring Bikes

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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What happens if the motorail service due to whisk your bike down to Italy goes bust? You ride there instead. This all began with a planning exercise based on a promise to my wife that our bike tour would be simple and relaxed, a reaction to a very cold and wet ride down the Route…

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Embarking on a 120-ish mile jaunt around Wiltshire — with Salisbury Plain, stone circles and tanks carrying L-plates. I love chalk. Not the school blackboard variety, but the landscapes produced by this great swathe of ancient limestone that sweeps right across southern England. Find the right A and B roads, and you’ll be sharing these…

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Himalayan passes by Enfield Bullet – landslides, altitude sickness and not a lot of road. This ride was the hardest, most fantastic and rewarding thing I have ever done. Twenty-one riders on 16 bikes left Vashisht, a hill village in Himachal Pradesh, north India. There were three couples (I admired the pillion wives for their…

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This month, a UK Mid Ride, around the coast of Britain by Triumphs – what could possibly go wrong? Father and son, two weeks’ holiday in June, a brace of Triumphs (Street Triple and Bonneville) – what else could we do but a mega-ride around the UK (anti-clockwise)? We’d hug the shore as much as…

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Two day rides in one trip – Dumfries and Galloway up to Kintyre plus Glencoe. Sometimes the best bike trips are those where you pretty much go on the spur of the moment. Finding I had a spare day or two, I dug out the map, looked for roads marked as scenic and chose a…

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Looking for adventure in their own back yard, 27 strangers ride from Land’s End to John o’Groats. It started as an open invitation to anyone interested in riding from Land’s End to John o’Groats. I was going to do it the slow way on the same 105cc Honda CT110 that I’d ridden from Sydney to…

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