The Rider’s Digest issue 194 ~ Autumn 2016
The PDF of issue 194 of The Rider’s Digest is available to download absolutely FREE from our online shop HERE and as usual it is rammed full of the best motorcycling writing anywhere on the Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest issue 193 – Summer 2016
The PDF of issue 193 of The Rider’s Digest is available to download absolutely FREE from our online shop HERE and as usual it is rammed full of the best motorcycling writing anywhere on the Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest issue 192 – Spring 2016
The PDF of issue 192 of The Rider’s Digest is available to download absolutely free from our online shop HERE and as usual it is rammed full of the best Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest Issue 191 – Winter 2015
Issue 191 of The Rider’s Digest is available to download absolutely free in Adobe PDF form from the online shop right here. In this 154-page issue we road test the Continue Reading
A CAR!!!
When I informed the editor that due to a series of unforeseen events, I would be substituting a Saab convertible for the BMW/Ural combo that I described in “The Grand Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest Issue 190 – Autumn 2015
Issue 190 of The Rider’s Digest is now available absolutely free in the usual Adobe PDF format from either the online shop right here, or from the links in the Continue Reading
Behind The Lines
During the summer of 2014, with the Tower of London surrounded by thousands of vivid red ceramic poppies and the nation finding many different ways of paying tribute to those Continue Reading
You’ll Believe A Man Can Fly…
Freestyle Motocross evolved out of playtime. Mainstream pro MXers would ride in their free time, off-season, on some piece of off-road ground that happened to facilitate air. As is the Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest Issue 189 – Summer 2015
Summer is here and everybody is out riding, so here are 188 pages of top-quality inspirational motolit via Issue 189 of The Rider’s Digest, available via [free] Adobe PDF download Continue Reading
Souvenirs From India
Of course I would have loved to have had my Enfield with me but it wasn’t that sort of trip to India this time. It was a ‘proper’ holiday with Continue Reading
Land’s End or Bust!
Blez recounts a memorable ride to the end of English earth on an Indian-built bike with a proud British history, inspired by an intrepid journey half a century earlier. When Continue Reading
Riders’ Lives Special ~ ‘Hairy Biker’ Dave Myers
Since they burst onto our TV screens almost 10 years ago, The Hairy Bikers have ridden a variety of machines into our living rooms, prepared some very tasty looking meals Continue Reading
The Northward Route
The pages of just about every motorcycle magazine are covered in articles about the newest, the best or the most-hyped ‘adventure bike’. I’m not going into this topic because I’ve Continue Reading
Riders’ Lives: The John Surtees Interview
When you get a group of motorcyclists together discussing racing heroes, the same names tend to crop up, all richly deserving of the accolades that follow: Geoff Duke, Mike Hailwood, Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest Issue 188 – Spring 2015
Here we go folks, here’s the brand new Issue 188 of The Rider’s Digest – just in time for that post-winter shakedown and cobweb removal (of the bike, that is). Continue Reading
The Grand European Tour Revisited
I’ve noticed that irrespective of whether or not they subsequently make it into print, travel stories often seem to start over a few large whiskies, half a dozen pints, or Continue Reading
Held Gloves review ~ A Man For All Seasons
As last year’s ‘riding season’ was drawing to a close (i.e. when sensible leisure riders SORN their bikes and the rest of us start digging out our cold weather kit), Continue Reading
The Rider’s Digest Issue 187 – Winter 2014
This is it! After nearly a year away, the brand new Issue 187 of The Rider’s Digest is now available to download for FREE via the online shop either here Continue Reading
Paul Sample ~ The Interview
Whitchurch in Shropshire is one of those places that encapsulates the essence of Englishness with all its half-timbered houses, red bricks and stone-built churches. It’s a theme I want to Continue Reading
HOG in St Tropez
Long before Brigit Bardot and the jet set celebrity pack put St Tropez on the map, it was just a sleepy little fishing port where the calloused hands of old Continue Reading
More American Motorcycles
What’s the difference between the editor of The Road and the editor of The Rider’s Digest? While Mutchie gets to hang with the HOGs in the South of France, I Continue Reading
Fear & Loathing in LA LA Land
Everyone knows that we live in dangerous, lawless times; so anybody who rides an expensive or highly desirable motorcycle has to deal with the reality that there are hordes of Continue Reading
Spaceship Awareness
It’s all too easy to dismiss that thing you do on your bike, as nothing more than a traffic-choked, soul-destroying grind; particularly when you consider that for what seems like Continue Reading
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
Riders’ Lives ~ Gary France
1. What was your first motorcycling experience? As a 16 year old, I bought a Honda C90 and rode it year round. As a family, we didn’t have much money, Continue Reading