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 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
Beach Boys
Margate. Or should I say ‘Margit’ in deference to my dad? I remember it well. As a kid we used to have our family holidays there. A 100 mile round Continue Reading
Winter Hacks (With Spokes)
If we all lived in a climate like Arizona or Australia there would be no need to consider buying a different motorcycle to use during the long winter months. Unfortunately, Continue Reading
Motorcycle Live 2013
I ought to sue Honda for intellectual property theft. There I am, thinking I’ve got first call on the whole ‘riding as a form of meditation’ thing, and now here’s Continue Reading
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
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
Hey, I’m With The Team
Club-level motorcycle racing has an odd relationship with the media. You’ll see race reports and lists of results, but not much else. Some of it has a regular slot on Continue Reading
HUBB UK 2013
The Horizons Unlimited (HU) website and forum for overland travellers was started way back in 1997 by Grant and Susan Johnson, a couple of Canadians who had spent 11 years Continue Reading
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
Oval Motorcycle Centre
Doing it yourself is more satisfying and rewarding than having it done for you – surely a statement wide open for a passionate discussion. When applied to motorcycle maintenance however Continue Reading
In The Saddle
Hi Dave, I loved the book review and was chuffed that Ace Times came through it in pretty good shape. In respect of the writer’s observations re Ace Times, on Continue Reading
Riders’ Lives – Dave Boulineau
1.What was your first motorcycling experience? 10 years old, riding our semi-new 1968 Honda 50 Mini-Trail. All that freedom and raw power at my fingertips. Mastering the field next to Continue Reading
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
Why I Hate – Sorry – Love, London
For several years I worked for one of the very best despatch companies I ever came across. Working out of Slough I enjoyed one of the most lucrative periods of Continue Reading
Ask a Policeman
How much trouble can I get into with an illegal number plate? Well, it all started one fine sunny day when myself and a couple of colleagues were using a Continue Reading
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
Riders’ Lives – Paul Nicholas Blezard (aka Blez)
1.What was your first motorcycling experience? Aged 13, hiring a 50cc motorcycle and riding it on the streets of Rimini for an hour without mastering the clutch, but also without Continue Reading
Paddy’s Perspective
Which Way Now? It’s something to ponder: Where’s the Bike Industry going? Chasing a GP dream or embracing environmentalism? Are the marketing men leading, or are consumers demanding change? Is Continue Reading
Ask a policeman
I’d like to start by saying I’m not a writer, a reporter, or a journalist. I’m not highly educated and I possess very few literary skills, (thank goodness for smell Continue Reading
Secondary Effects
I read other motorcycle magazines somewhat regularly. I’m more interested in their letters-to-the-editor than I am in their latest shoot-out between six identical motorcycles. I don’t care about elite Continue Reading
The first sunny ride of the year
It’s been a funny old winter. I started out determined to ride right through as I have done in previous years. Anything aside from snow will see me out on Continue Reading
Funky Mopeds
There was a time, many years ago, when some of the contributors to this august journal had long hair, pimply faces and flares, when there existed a sub culture Continue Reading
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
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