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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

Posted On : June 23, 2015 Published By :
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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

Posted On : January 11, 2015 Published By :
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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

Posted On : October 28, 2014 Published By : Dave
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The Gathering of Biker Chicks in Ireland

Into the West – A tour of the rugged west coast of Clare 18th & 19th October 2013 The day had finally arrived for our adventure into the west. Across Continue Reading

Posted On : December 3, 2013 Published By :
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Gentlemen and Ladies (Dressed Like Gents) Start Your Engines

A few years ago I was chatting to Mark Wilsmore, the Ace Cafe impresario, and I asked him why there were so many four-wheel events at a biker caff. Mark Continue Reading

Posted On : December 3, 2013 Published By :
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ISSUE 184

If you decided to invest the princely sum of one pound sterling on the PDF version of  issue 184 you will be getting no less than 236 beautifully laid out Continue Reading

Posted On : November 3, 2013 Published By :
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Riders’ Lives – Iain Banks

1.What was your first motorcycling experience? Discounting Honda 50s and 90s, a Suzi GT185 that I was loaned for a few months back in 1976. Electric start, let me tell Continue Reading

Posted On : July 2, 2013 Published By :
Customised Triumph low rider
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The Posh Boys’ Bike Club

I’ve always been pretty crap with names (but spectacularly good with faces) so if anyone had asked me a few years ago if I knew Steve Hallam, I wouldn’t have Continue Reading

Posted On : June 2, 2013 Published By : Dave
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In The Saddle

Dear Dave, Just read TRD and liked it so much I recommended it on Facebook. You must tell The Boy Biker that he only learnt half a lesson when he Continue Reading

Posted On : May 5, 2013 Published By :
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BREAKOUT

It’s rush hour in downtown Marseilles and I’m filtering through the seafront traffic on Harley Davidson’s new Breakout. It’s been an interesting day and one that challenges my preconceptions as to Continue Reading

Posted On : May 5, 2013 Published By :
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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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Paul Sample: The Interview ‘Everyone chooses their own destiny; mine’s a bike’ – OGRI

Whitchurch 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 explore with Continue Reading

Posted On : April 26, 2013 Published By : Dave
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Portraits of the TT 2012

It had been 10 years since my first and last visit to the Isle of Man for the TT races, back in 2002 I had just changed jobs, as I Continue Reading

Posted On : April 26, 2013 Published By :

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