Gilks Cafe, Kineton

Meet Up Ride Out 23rd September – Gilks Café – Dave Tomlinson This is one of our regular two-weekly rideout to ensure post-covid cobwebs are kept firmly at bay! Today we rode through the charming…

Advanced Riding – Andy Slater

Andy Slater – Chairman, Thames Vales Advanced Motorcyclists Andy Slater has very kindly agreed to allow us to print some extracts from the Insights into Advanced Motorcycling booklets he has written over time. These have…

Austria Trip June 2019

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Meet the Member – Dave Shanks from Bicester

What is/was your day job? I retired in 2003 after working in Transport/Warehousing. I had five jobs in all, never unemployed. How long have you been riding? I started riding in 1954, but had a…

Trip to the Waldblick Hotel in the Black Forest

Finally after two years of postponements the trip to the Waldblick hotel in the Black Forest was on. Although 17 people were heading for the hotel everyone had their own itinerary. Some were leaving the…

A View From The Outside

A View from the Outside – Summer 2022             Just in case you overlooked the change in title, you may recall that back in the Spring edition I said that it might be my last…

How to Pack for a Motorcycle Tour

How to Pack for a Motorcycle Tour What to take and how to pack it will have been the source of personal consideration for the solo rider and possibly fractious discussion by a two up…

The Germany Tour – Sunday 3rd July 2022 – Potsdam

Potsdam is a very famous German city situated to the south west of Berlin. We decided to stay there for easy public transport access into the Motorrad Days in Berlin and avoid all the traffic…

Meet the Member – Rowena Deans

I live in Witney, Oxfordshire. I am a theatre nurse at the John Radcliffe Hospital and over time I have developed my career and as one can imagine, I have seen a lot of life…

BMW Club Oxford Trip To Germany

Trip to Germany 26th June to 1st July 2022 There are still a small number of spaces left on the Germany tour that will be based at the Hotel Waldblick. •Hotel Waldblick is a 3* hotel…