Skip to content
The Rider's Digest The Rider's Digest

Real world motorcycling since 1997

Time Travel: A Biker’s Life in the 1970s
Oct 26 2013

Time Travel: A Biker’s Life in the 1970s

Ask a policeman
May 5 2013

Ask a policeman

Men and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Or Plus ca change)
Aug 3 2013

Men and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Or Plus ca change)

There’s No Such Thing As An Original Triton
Jul 2 2013

There’s No Such Thing As An Original Triton

On Yer Bike
Jan 20 2014

On Yer Bike

Precious Children Revisited
May 17 2016

Precious Children Revisited

Primary Menu
  • Home
  • Features
    • Cartoons
    • Image of the Month
    • Opinion
    • Riders’ Lives
    • Travel
  • Contributors
    • Blez
    • Des Senior
    • Dave Gurman
    • Jonathan Boorstein
    • Oldlongdog
    • Martin Haskell
    • Antony Loveless
    • Boy Biker
    • Group W
    • Paddy Tyson
    • Ricardo Rodrigues
    • Stuart Jewkes
    • Simon Kewer
    • Wizzard
  • Previous Issues
    • Issue 164
    • Issue 165
    • Issue 166
    • Issue 167
    • Issue 168
    • Issue 175
    • Issue 170
    • Issue 173
    • Issue 177
    • Issue 172
    • Issue 174
    • Issue 169
    • Issue 176
    • Issue 171
    • Issue 178
    • Issue 179
    • Issue 181
    • Issue 182
    • Issue 183
    • Issue 184
    • Issue 185
    • Issue 186
    • Issue 187
    • Issue 188
    • Issue 189
    • Issue 190
  • Bikes
    • Triumph
    • BSA
    • Norton
    • Harley Davidson
    • BMW
  • Shop

Category: Editor

  • Home
  • Editor
Category:
  • Editor
  • Poll
  • Spring 2016
  • This Month

Image of the Month Poll

Have a look through these dozen images (they’re larger below) and vote for your favourite. [socialpoll id=”2362419″]    

Posted On : May 25, 2016 Published By : Dave
Category:
  • Editor
  • England
  • Spring 2016
  • The UK
  • This Month

Appalling!

This story has caused barely a ripple in the mainstream media but there’s been a fair bit of chatter within the ‘biking community’ and although the responses have varied widely – largely dependent on the kind of group who were Continue Reading

Posted On : May 22, 2016 Published By : Dave
Category:
  • BMW
  • Editor
  • Slider
  • Spring 2016
  • This Month

The BMW R5 Hommage

Motorcycle manufacturers commissioning one off specials is nothing new, in fact judging by the amount of PR blurb that we see in our in-tray it would appear that it has become Continue Reading

Posted On : May 22, 2016 Published By : Dave
Category:
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • Slider
  • Spring 2016
  • This Month

Precious Children Revisited

Towards the end of April a mum from Texas found herself at the centre of a veritable Twitter-storm after this photograph appeared online showing her boyfriend carrying her seven year old daughter on the Continue Reading

Posted On : May 17, 2016 Published By : Dave
Category:
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • This Month

From the Old Editor

The heading of this editorial, as with so many things I write, can be taken more than one way (well the way I see it, there’s no point in having Continue Reading

Posted On : October 16, 2014 Published By :
Category:
  • Editor
  • This Month

From the (New) Editor

There’s a big difference between contributing to a publication and editing it; between adding a voice to the choir, and conducting it. Maybe I hadn’t thought it through during the Continue Reading

Posted On : October 16, 2014 Published By :
Category:
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • February 2014
  • This Month

From the Editor ~ Feb 2014

The day after the mini January issue went live at the beginning of the month, my wife and I spent a surprisingly balmy, occasionally barmy, but absolutely delightful day strolling Continue Reading

Posted On : February 2, 2014 Published By :
Category:
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • Issue 186
  • January 2014
  • This Month

From the Editor ~ 186

As has become the tradition here at Digest Towers (well we did it last year), once again the January edition has been cut to the bone to allow everyone involved Continue Reading

Posted On : January 9, 2014 Published By :
Category:
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • Issue 184
  • November 2013

From the Editor ~ 184

I found it fascinating reading Stuart’s interview with his friend Andy whose riding career started in the nineteen seventies (Time Travel p.130), not least because while mine began at around Continue Reading

Posted On : November 3, 2013 Published By :
Category:
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • Issue 183
  • October 2013

From the Editor ~ 183

Whenever I was writing my editorial for the printed version of The Rider’s Digest, there was always the thought at the back of my mind that quite a few people Continue Reading

Posted On : October 5, 2013 Published By :
Category:
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • September 2013

From the Editor ~ 182

Travel, it’s said, broadens the mind and it’s difficult to imagine how it could fail to do so. Having said that I know there are plenty of tourists who’ve been Continue Reading

Posted On : September 5, 2013 Published By :
Category:
  • August 2013
  • Editor

From the Editor ~ 181

It’s been the same thing every summer for as long as I can remember but the din seems to be getting exponentially louder year on year; in fact sometimes I Continue Reading

Posted On : August 3, 2013 Published By : Dave
Category:
  • August 2013
  • Editor
  • England
  • Events

The Clever Girls and Boys’ Club

In my report on the Posh Boys’ beano in the railway arches (issue 179), I admitted that thirty odd years earlier when I was a courier with a keen sense Continue Reading

Posted On : August 3, 2013 Published By :
Category:
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • Issue 180
  • July 2013

From the Editor ~ 180

Greetings, I don’t know how the weather’s been down your way but I’ve got to tell you it’s felt pretty damn summery in London for the last few days. Unfortunately Continue Reading

Posted On : July 2, 2013 Published By : Dave
Category:
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • Issue 179
  • June 2013

From the Editor ~ 179

Earlier this month I read “Sons of Thunder”, which is a fine compilation of motorcycle writing assembled by Neil Bradford and showcasing twenty-six top-notch contributors including Roald Dahl, L.J.K. Setright, Continue Reading

Posted On : June 3, 2013 Published By :
Category:
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • Issue 178
  • May 2013

From the editor ~ 178

It’s interesting that Oldlondog should choose a Steinbeck reference to illustrate an article about his local bike shop because the American Nobel Laureate was very much to the forefront of Continue Reading

Posted On : May 5, 2013 Published By :
Category:
  • April 2013
  • BMW
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • England
  • Other Bikes
  • Suzuki

From the Editor ~ 177

As many of you will be aware, I tend to leave me editorial until the very last thing. This is partially to lend it a degree of immediacy in recognition Continue Reading

Posted On : April 26, 2013 Published By :
Category:
  • August 2012
  • Dave Gurman
  • Editor
  • Featured Area
  • Issue 169

From the Editor ~ 169

The floor in our kitchen and all the way through to the back door is a sea of shiny black granite. It was one of the things that attracted us Continue Reading

Posted On : August 2, 2012 Published By :

Recent Comments

  • Martin Langan on On Yer Bike
  • Mark on Time Travel: A Biker’s Life in the 1970s
  • Dave on Reasons To Be Cheerful
  • Pencuse on Reasons To Be Cheerful
  • Rigz on Time Travel: A Biker’s Life in the 1970s
  • martin carroll on On Yer Bike
  • Mandy (Wallasey) on Time Travel: A Biker’s Life in the 1970s
  • Christine Taylor on Time Travel: A Biker’s Life in the 1970s
  • Dave Gurman on The Dark Side
  • R Hudson on Time Travel: A Biker’s Life in the 1970s

Categories

  • Reviving the live site!
    1
    Posted On: 7 Apr 2018

    Reviving the live site!

  • The Rider’s Digest Live
    2
    Posted On: 7 Apr 2018

    The Rider’s Digest Live

  • Race on over to our ‘Live’ site
    3
    Posted On: 7 Apr 2018

    Race on over to our ‘Live’ site

  • The Rider’s Digest issue 193 – Summer 2016
    4
    Posted On: 2 Jul 2016

    The Rider’s Digest issue 193 – Summer 2016

  • The BMW R5 Hommage
    5
    Posted On: 22 May 2016

    The BMW R5 Hommage

  • The Dark Side
    6
    Posted On: 18 May 2016

    The Dark Side

Less Than Hog Wild
Posted On: 11 Jan 2015

Less Than Hog Wild

Red Horse, Ready Rider
Posted On: 10 Jan 2015

Red Horse, Ready Rider

Globe Girdlers Six
Posted On: 8 Nov 2014

Globe Girdlers Six

Beginnings: Fits and Starts
Posted On: 12 Mar 2014

Beginnings: Fits and Starts

Culture ~ Jupiter Travels, Jupiter Co-Brands
Posted On: 3 Dec 2013

Culture ~ Jupiter Travels, Jupiter Co-Brands

Book Review – Che Sera Sera
Posted On: 25 Oct 2013

Book Review – Che Sera Sera

Culture ~ The First Annual Motorcycle Film Festival
Posted On: 3 Oct 2013

Culture ~ The First Annual Motorcycle Film Festival

Culture – With an Eagle on the Back
Posted On: 5 Sep 2013

Culture – With an Eagle on the Back

Advertise

Navigate

  • Home
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Sitemap
Copyright All rights reserved
Theme: Royal Magazine by ThemeinWP