Jennie has gone to the next town on a shopping/lunch trip with one of her mates.  As I've not been presented with a list of chores, a ve...

Autumn is absolutely the best time of year to ride a motorcycle on the Coromandel Peninsula where we live. The temperatures have dropped a b...

For most of my riding years, I've stuck with stock suspension, and probably much of it was with tired units because as young 'un wit...

Bikes aren't mentioned in this post but hope you don't mind as we are very proud parents.  We just got back from Christchurch in the...

Riders in NZ are about to pay a whole lot more for annual motorcycle registration and I’m not happy, not happy at all. When I cough up fo...

The northern part of the north island of NZ is currently in the grip of a drought but on the positive side, it's meant calm, warm days w...

I suppose that having ridden for more than 40 years, you notice trends and can compare them with past periods of time. Looking backward does...

About 7 years ago, thinking about the impact of good wheel alignment stirred what Jennie laughingly refers to as my brain!  I'd had some...

This blog is unashamedly about motorcycling but this post has nothing whatsoever to do with bikes apart from the event which prevented me fr...