Archive for May, 2021

Pole to Pole – Coda

Part 4 Leaving Amakusa I am riding across Kyushu to Beppu. I have abandoned my original riding plan due to the arrival of Japan’s rainy season (Tsuyu) a month early. I am fortunate to leave before rain and ride into fine but hazy skies. By chance I discover a nice […]

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25 years sharing good rides

I first started posting motorcycle photos and roads to the internet about ’95 – ’96, best I can recall. I had home internet around the time of Windows 95. Anyone remember the Start me Up commercial? Access was sold by the hour but there really wasn’t much content, WWW was […]

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Pole to Pole – South by Southwest

Part 3, Kyushu Disembarking from the overnight ferry in Shibushi proceeds quickly with so few people. For once a delay would be preferable as I ride out of the hull into heavy rain. I abandon my route to take the expressway. It is mid morning before I find a place […]

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Pole to Pole. Ishigaki to Wakkanai

With most of us being constrained to riding within our own borders I decided to look at how big a ride I could do inside Japan. Japan stretches a long distance. Wakkanai is 26km from Russia and gets 6.6 metres of snow a year. Ishikgaki is next to Taiwan with […]

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Blogger to WordPress – Two years on

It’s two years since I moved from Blogger to WordPress and my views have changed from what I first wrote about the experience. Recap I used Blogger for 13 years and with an aftermarket template I had a WordPress look with home page slider images and proper menus but there […]

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