Don’t you love it when something really surprises you? Nathan Millward’s adventure motorcycle travel book The Long Ride ‘Home’ has just done that to me. Read on…
A friend recently sent out an email asking for articles for the BM Riders newsletter, and when he did so he started me thinking about a topic that has popped up a lot in conversations over the past year. Are e-books a good thing, and are they in fact a very good thing for motorcyclists? […]
Heard of Wilderness Lectures? If you are interested in travel then you probably will have. This Bristol based organization has been running for 25 years now. The organisers are all adventurers themselves, and easily attract top names from the world of adventuring. Who was that guy who walked across the Amazon? Who is that woman […]
The Motorcycle Live show at the NEC (National Exhibition Centre) in Birmingham is the UK’s biggest indoor motorcycle show, and for me it’s also the one with the most wow factor. Most of the motorcycle manufacturers are there and they spend thousands on putting their stands together. The rest of the show is an enticing […]
If you’ve read the first three parts of this series, you’ll be ready for some facts about Vietnam and travelling there.
A day on the road in Vietnam may require you to break with habit. If you aren’t a morning person then you’ll struggle a bit more than those lucky people who think nothing about bouncing out of bed at the first sound of the sparrows. If you are a morning, get up and go sort of person, then you are already winning and can have an absolutely amazing adventure in a land that sounds different, smells different and tastes different.
‘Vietnam? On a bike? Don’t hesitate, just do it! This challenging and exotic tropical country cries out to be explored, and there just isn’t a better way to do it than on two wheels. There are so many amazing things to see that you simply revel in having the ability to be in control of […]
Not long back, Birgit and I managed to scoot off to Vietnam for 4 weeks and what we found there far exceeded our expectations. Over the next 4 posts I’ll be telling about what we saw there, why we were inspired, what a day on the road is like and some facts you ought to […]
I’m often asked about what kit to take on a long trip but I’m not so brave as to attempt to tell anyone how to equip their bike and themselves. But, a few ideas may stop some lessons being learned the hard, painful, or expensive way.
A while back, Avon Tyres asked me to do an interview with them. Basically, they wanted to know who the hell Sam Manicom is. This is what happened…