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
Falling Head Over Heels
Manoeuvring the Aprilia inside the small front garden was tricky. It wasn’t difficult in a way that was likely to convince the smiling woman in the doorway that I was 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
Motorbike Fast
Motorbike Fast by Suzi-Mae (who is 11 years and 5 months old). I hold on tight, I look straight ahead, Leaving behind my warm, cosy bed. Now I’m ready and 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
Brenda’s Bike
I am not a biker. I am a retired GP from Bristol who is part of a small development project in rural Ethiopia, helping out with worthy aims such as 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
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
Megamoto Mega Trip
The universally accepted truth about supermotards is that you can’t ride one for more than a few hours at a time and you certainly can’t tour on one – that Continue Reading
Riders’ Lives ~ James Clark
1. What was your first motorcycling experience? Trepidation, followed by utter joy; same as everyone else. More specifically it was a Honda C50 that was so old it had a Continue Reading
Less Than Hog Wild
It would have been nice had The Art of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycles (2014) arrived in time to be included in the winter round-up featured in Issue 187. It would have Continue Reading
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
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
Elefant Escapades
On a whim I call my fellow conspirator Andy and ask him if he fancies doing the Elefant Rally. Typically, he replies that he can’t see any reason not to Continue Reading
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
Me & Harley McDee
The title of this piece is an affectionate nod to the ‘road’ classic most famously — not to mention most emotively and passionately — delivered by Janis Joplin. Although “Me Continue Reading
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
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
DCT – The ideal automatic transmission?
In the beginning, there was only a single speed and a crude ‘chain’ of linked pieces of leather to transmit power from a motorised bicycle’s engine to the back wheel. Continue Reading