Having spent three days in Bangkok, eating cakes, drinking bad cocktails and getting excellent massages, it was clear the time had come to venture elsewhere - lest this year's foray into South East Asia turn into nothing more than an implosion of hedonism. It was, therefore, with the perverted e...
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Further to my last, light-hearted post about having to abandon my car, I do hope whoever managed to smash into it, pushing it off the road and into this sign has the decency to report it or get in touch. I'm quite pleased though, because I had just had it fixed and was wondering what to spend my tho...
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WOE IS ME. Here is my story for the local newspaper, the Daily Grind: Snow Reason to Panic Bloody disgrace, Lisa. A little bit of snow and the whooooole country grinds to a halt! All over Britain,copywriters like this idiot are taking their 35 year old sports cars down frozen country paths and...
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All in all, 2012 was a pretty good year for me. I tried to do at least one kickass thing for every month of the year. Here is what I managed: [gallery type="rectangular" ids="574,1181,932,894,850,1683,2235,1068,2238,1540,1333,981,1131"] Info: this year, I completed Tough Guy Winter 2012, won...
Continue reading ...Back in August, I posted this photo of my car, a rare 1977/78 Datsun 260z, which I had just got back on the road. It had just spent 9 weeks in a garage, having £1200 of work done to it, whilst I went through two motorbikes... Then I got it back and took it DRIVIN'! Then my starter motor went and...
Continue reading ...I have now been using motorbikes for my mode of transport pretty much exclusively for six months. In that time, I have done the following: Bought one motorbike Written off one motorbike Rented one motorbike Had one motorbike stolen Had one motorbike repaired Fallen off a motorbike when taking a...
Continue reading ...I'm singin' the blues today. Goes a lil' summin' like this: Woke up this mornin', My motorbike had been stole, That's right the motorbike, That I parked outside ma home. I called the Police, Told them what went down, They said they'd see if they, Could spot it drivin' round town. "What's ...
Continue reading ...Did you blink? If so, you probably missed the period over which I owned a kickass motorbike. That's right; it took just 11 days for somebody to crash into me Being the supportive type, people are telling me how lucky I am to have got out of the incident unscathed. They're right, of course. O...
Continue reading ...I know this has nothing to do with sport but, after a good six weeks or so of searching and stressing out, I have finally found AND PURCHASED my first motorcycle! No longer am I a founding member of Bearhawks Motorcycle Club...without a bike... The elongated wait and huge amount of inconvenience...
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