A Few Mods to my GS650 Sertao

The ‘Sertao’ is the last of the line of the BMW 650GS singles Author Ken Smale I’ve had this bike for a few years now and decided to make a few changes. The large Givi boxes…

Meet the Member – Wendy Ottaway

In the Winter 2019 Journal, we met John Ottaway. Now it is time to meet Wendy Ottaway, who was, for a couple of years, Social Secretary of the BMW Oxford Club. How did you first…

Bike Lift!

  K1600 “Easyrizer” Big Blue Professional Lift “I’m really getting too old for this” Sound familiar, the joys of motorcycle maintenance and cleaning, kneeling and grovelling on the floor was fast becoming past its enjoyment…

Meet The Member – Tim Bolderson

Author Tim Bolderson Name and where you live Hi. My name is Tim Bolderston and I live in Caversham, which is the bit of Reading that is north of the Thames. What is/was your day…

Insights into Advanced Motorcycling – Andy Slater

IN PURSUIT OF PROGRESS ‘The faster I go the more progress I’ll make.’ Observers and Instructors are alway banging on about ‘Making Progress’ but what does that mean? Isn’t it just another way of saying…

Shell GO+ Revisited: Carbon Offsetting and COVID-19?

Hopefully we will be nearing the end of the latest COVID-19 lockdown restrictions soon and some motorcycling will be possible again, just in time for the better weather! The COVID-19 pandemic is reckoned to be…

RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders (RoADAR)

RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders (RoADAR) aims to reduce road accidents by encouraging an interest in road safety and by improving driving standards, knowledge and skill. To accomplish this goal, RoSPA Advanced Drivers and Riders…

Spring 2021 Postcards from the Ride

    Bob Mack enjoying himself in Wales   Italian Police preparing for the G7 in Taormina, Sicily   The seafront at Aberystwyth   Crossing the Nevada Desert to Salt Lake City Originally posted 2021-03-18…

Social Secretary Report February 2022

 Wednesday 9th February – The Bell Pub, Stowe on the Wold It all started well, the day was glorious sunshine, I travelled on familiar country roads neatly avoiding the Oxford traffic… We were meeting at…

Motorcycling in Oxfordshire NEEDS YOU!

Oxfordshire County Council are preparing a new transport plan running up to 2050. So far, they have attempted both to leave motorcycles out of the plan and to claim that they are a major source…