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Dream Racer: Review

It seems incongruous to review a DVD that’s been on general release since 2012. However, Dream Racer has recently been nominated for another slew of documentary awards to add to Continue Reading

Posted On : January 24, 2016 Published By : Stuart Jewkes
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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

Posted On : March 23, 2015 Published By : Dave
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Bargain Basement Biking from Aldi

I have been waiting for the Digest to provide me with some gear for testing for some years and I must admit I wasn’t jumping for joy when it was Continue Reading

Posted On : March 8, 2015 Published By :
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Red Horse, Ready Rider

If the brutal truth be known, I wouldn’t even last ten seconds as a despatch rider. Quite odd, really, since The Rider’s Digest was started some seventeen years ago by Continue Reading

Posted On : January 10, 2015 Published By :
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Globe Girdlers Six

Hard to believe, but circling the world on a motorcycle goes back more than a hundred years. It did not start with Ted Simon, despite what many still believe (Simon, Continue Reading

Posted On : November 8, 2014 Published By :
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Beginnings: Fits and Starts

Where, oh where, to begin discussing Ashes to Boonville by Geoff G. Thomas? I could begin with why it wasn’t reviewed in November as originally planned. Or I could begin Continue Reading

Posted On : March 12, 2014 Published By :
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  • January 2014
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Rev’It Avenue GTX Jacket

Rev’It Avenue GTX Jacket As anyone who’s up on their country lore will tell you, a single swallow doesn’t make a summer. By the same token any all-year-round motorcyclist will Continue Reading

Posted On : January 22, 2014 Published By :
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Bitz ~ 185 Mondo Sahara

Austin Vince made his name in the mid-90s with Mondo Enduro, the film of his trip around the world with a bunch of a mates, all mounted on Suzuki DR350s Continue Reading

Posted On : December 3, 2013 Published By :
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Book Review – Che Sera Sera

On several occasions, I’ve pointed out that even if two motorcyclists travel the exact same route, they won’t have the exact same trip. The bikers will have different adventures, meet Continue Reading

Posted On : October 25, 2013 Published By :
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Book Review – Of Tourists and Travelers

As I sat down to write this month’s selection of fun and forensic book reviews, George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin. The verdict sparked a handful Continue Reading

Posted On : August 3, 2013 Published By :
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The Art of BMW Photos

Here are some of the luscious photographs that we couldn’t fit into Jonathan’s review

Posted On : July 23, 2013 Published By :
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Book Review – The Blunting of the Snark

The two books this month raise questions of when to be or not be contentious. One goes out of its way to be controversial as it can be, but comes Continue Reading

Posted On : July 23, 2013 Published By :
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The Ace Cafe, Café Racers, and Racing Aces – Book Review pt. 1

It is doubtful that there is anyone involved in the world of British motorcycling whose life is not touched directly or indirectly by the Ace Cafe. A visit here, an Continue Reading

Posted On : May 5, 2013 Published By :
view of a crowd of bikes outside the Ace Cafe London
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The Ace Cafe, Café Racers, and Racing Aces – Book Review pt. 2

The world of the contemporary café racer in the United States is more properly addressed in Seate’s Café Racer: the Motorcycle (2008). For the past five or so years Seate Continue Reading

Posted On : May 5, 2013 Published By :
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Book Review – What did happen to the British motorcycle industry?

British motorcycles – British iron, or Britiron as it is known by many – possesses a legendary, near sacred, status in my country. The craving for Britiron was once so Continue Reading

Posted On : March 1, 2013 Published By :
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Book Review – Of Tarmac and Tourists

A young African-American in leathers snaps a photograph of his KTM alongside a Triumph and a Suzuki parked on Jones Street in Greenwich Village. He is probably unaware that he Continue Reading

Posted On : September 11, 2012 Published By :
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Book Review – Riders and Roadcraft (Part II)

Whenever I examine a book about riding motorcycles, the image of a beginning rider with the book resting on the handlebars comes to mind. When the rider comes to the Continue Reading

Posted On : August 1, 2012 Published By :
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  • July 2012

Book Review – Riders and Roadcraft (Part I)

One of the great pleasures of collecting and reading old motorcycling books are the glimpses into riding in years, if not decades, gone by. The Rudge Book of the Road, Continue Reading

Posted On : July 1, 2012 Published By : Dave
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  • June 2012

Book Review – Books and Bikesploitation

Before we begin to ride, we imagine ourselves riding: in the dirt; to a far off place; as fast as we can; or even just across town.  Perhaps it started Continue Reading

Posted On : June 1, 2012 Published By :
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Storm Buff

  Buffwear Storm Buffs

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Adventure Backpack

  Overboard Adventureproof Backpacks

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Book Review – Spies and Samurai

Critics and reviewers get asked a lot of questions. The range goes from the absurd – do you actually read the books or see the movies you review? (Yes) – Continue Reading

Posted On : May 1, 2012 Published By : Dave
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VE-UK Scooter Parts

  VE-UK    

Posted On : May 1, 2012 Published By : Dave
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Held Talin Gloves

  HELD web site in English  

Posted On : March 1, 2012 Published By : Dave
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Box Magic Roundabout Helmet

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Posted On : March 1, 2012 Published By : Dave

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