This post is out of date and predates my living in Japan. Please go to my Japan menu for more recent and better posts about riding Japan. Despite a major incident on tour I again enjoyed riding in Japan. My original plan got washed out due to the unseasonable arrival […]
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I needed to make some repairs to my Alpinestars textile pants which I managed to touch against the hot exhaust of the Honda CBF600 whilst on tour in Germany. It only took a couple of seconds to melt the outer nylon and inner layer and lucky there is mesh inside […]
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I visited the Kawasaki world in Kobe Japan. It is not a large display however reading about the other things Kawasaki build was of great interest. For example I knew they made some of the trains operating in Tokyo however not also many other cities trains in Japan and Asia […]
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Ultimate Alps Tour with Edelweiss In May 2020 during the lockdown I revisited this post and realised I had at the time barely written anything about this tour and posted a mere dozen images that were straight from the camera (since I did not start post processing my photos until […]
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This was written some time ago when Held had just 6 different motorcycle gloves, Held have since expanded with 1000’s of new items and most are made in China, but this post is about their original gloves. I have been talking about getting new gloves for the tour and I […]
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2023 update. Apologies all the links in this article seem to be now broken and the reports referenced are no longer on the sites that originally had them nor can I find them elsewhere. I leave this post here for now but may delete in future if I cannot fix […]
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I have purchased some new riding footwear and have chosen a pair of Joe Rocket Meteor boots. I decided I wanted to go for a 3/4 boot that was waterproof. Larger than this becomes less easy to walk in and wear under pants. Being waterproof I think is important if […]
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I took my previous Shark RSR helmet out for a spin yesterday to revisit an item designed to cut wind noise on helmets I had purchased some years ago. Called the Windjammer II from Proline Sports UK I first purchased this to use on a KBC helmet I previously owned […]
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4 days off work with more of less half decent weather seemed too good to just sit around home. Thursday evening I hatched a half baked plan to do a ride to the Tablelands way and getting all my gear ready and working out a route took late into the […]
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This post was edited and photos processed 2019 After previously having to cancel this ride I was determined to go this time no matter what so I set out only to ride into one of the hottest days on record. Yes that is 44 degrees or 111F in the old […]
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Update 2018 – still using this helmet – best I have ever owned. Replaced liner and visor and also have the N44 helmet to replace this one but find myself grabbing it when I go overseas as it is so good. Update 2012. The N43 is now released in Australia […]
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BMW City Pants. I have purchased some new riding pants. My old draggin jeans no longer fit me and was looking for something better. For about the same money these pants from BMW have a special soft armor in the hip and knee that shapes itself somewhat and an […]
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