With the announcement that the Bol D Or is returning to its spiritual home, Paul Ricard there is no question, we are going. The Bol has in the past been run at Le mans and in more recent times at Magny Cours but Ricard is regarded by many as the true home of the Bol. …
A drive through the night see’s us arrive in Bourg St Maurice with rain threatening, pretty soon its not just threatening, its pouring down, it doesn’t take much thought process not to ride but wait the weather out for the next few days when the forecast looks much better. Our wait is rewarded on Sunday …
With a trip to the Alps approaching we thought it would be a good idea to get our eye in, an uplift weekend, Cwm Down and Forest of Dean, things didn’t go according to plan with a couple of big offs, a dislocated shoulder and a trashed leg. Here are some pictures of two that …
Friday night in the pits at the Spa Classic in Belgium, a pack of Kawasaki’s, a herd of Suzuki’s broken up by Laverda’s, Moto Martin’s, Egli’s, P&M’s and a host of Harris’. The XR41 was pretty dam cool, an iconic bike built to win the world endurance championship, the forerunner of the GSXR range. Big …
My route back to sitting in a kayak has been a recent trip to Nepal. Kayaking pretty much ruled my life between 2003 and 2009, circumstances change and whilst my head tells me I am a kayaker the truth is that the frequency of trips to the rivers had reduced to such an extent that …
A couple of hours drive, just east of Pokhara lies a small valley through which the Madi Khola flows. it’s one of the smaller Himalayan rivers, almost alpine in appearance and is rightly described in the guidebook as a fesity little number and a jewel of a river. The Madi is lower volume than the …
off a mountain and we are airborne above Pokhara with views of the lake, the urban sprawl and Annapurna. Starting 700m above the tow we catch a thermal and climb into and through the cloud before heading out over the lake to loose our height in a series of turns that see’s us above thw …
I have no idea what this is, not a scooby do, but, we like it.
This is the fourth year that the Le Mans 24 hour race has brought the Word Endurance Chanmpionship to a close. Moved four years ago to the end of the season finale having traded places with the Bol D Or at Magny Cours, Le Mans is the second of the 24 hour races with further …
How it comes to pass that the Tour starts in Leeds is a little beyond me, but with the worlds greatest cycle race passing the front door we had to take part. The weather forecast is bleak, but in the best tradition of weather forecasters being wrong, the sun shone and shone. These fellas probably …