The View from the Top

Cynically, my view from the top has changed despite efforts to exercise within the previous restrictive guidelines. My midriff has expanded somewhat and now obscures my feet. Being at home so much with a kitchen…

The Limit Point

In the series Advanced Motorcycling, first started in our Winter Newsletter 2019/20, we have another article from Andy Slater, Chairman of the Thames Vale Advanced Motorcyclists Insights into Advanced Motorcycling – Andy Slater   The…

Ludlow – Overtaken by COVID-19

Last May Carl Flint led us on a trip to Ludlow where we stayed in small hotel not far from the centre of town. We spent a day on the bikes touring around twisty roads…

Meet the member – Nigel Richardson

My background Age 67, ex-military, then a consultant and manager in the financial services sector. Retired from full time employment in 2009. I live in Oxford with a very understanding wife and demanding black Labrador….

My FIRST BMW – K100RS 8V 1988

This is a bit of a challenge – can you write a post about your FIRST BMW motorcycle? Well this is a post about my first BMW a lovely red K100RS 8V. We purchased the…

Wunderlich Easy Park – XXL

  Wunderlich Easy Park – XXL As time goes by it seems to be a shared experience that garages/workshops shrink! Loving partners might gently point out it’s because you have TOO MUCH stuff and Marie…

Bob’s New XR?

There’s nothing unusual about buying a new Motorcycle so why I am telling you, the readers, about mine. It’s simple: – I can’t ride it and no one has seen it, all I can do…

Which BMW Club Facebook Groups Should I Join?

Judging by the large number of motorcyclists who use Facebook groups this is a very popular way of communicating with friends and sharing motorcycle knowledge and experience. The BMW Club has a number of Facebook…

One Week on a Commando ! Meetup RVP @ Hellfire Caves.

  I really look forward to our monthly Pub Social held at the Dashwood Arms, Piddington. Good company, good humour and good beer. For the present, the club’s ‘Meetup’ fellowship is hosting our cinema and…

Eurotunnel Le Shuttle Update

One of our members told me that it was possible to cancel a booking made with Le Shuttle without losing our money. A group of us had planned a trip to the Black Forest in…