Motorbiking
"Biker" for me usually means motorbiking, though I also have a couple of mountain-bikes... see Trail Bike
My current motorbikes are a Honda CBR600RR ABS 2017 and a Kawasaki Ninja Z250SL.
Previously I have owned: Kawasaki ZX4-RR (Ninja anniversary edition), Honda CRF300 Rally, Honda CBR600RR 2005, Honda CBR600FW, Honda VF750F, Yamaha FJ600, Suzuki GSX750EX, Yamaha FJ750, Yamaha XJ900, Kawasaki Z750 and I passed my riding test on my Kawasaki KH250.
See also my Motorbiking web links
A6, Shap
Seascale
It’s been fun, though this June’s sunshine-and-showers weather’s unpredictability hasn’t helped nor has the wind. My ZX-4RR, 400cc, two wheeled four cylinder rocket has now had its first service and it’s free of the running-in restrictions.
The experience as the rider is full commitment, I feel intimately in touch with the road, the surface and the topography and that’s the fantastic thrill of riding the open road. The ZX4 isn’t a bike for poodling along and admiring the scenery.
Annual vehicle inspection passed again. My little Ninja Z250SL keeps its place in my garage alongside my new Ninja ZX-4RR because the smaller bike works so well on the little roads around Cumbria.
“Ride till the sun goes down”
“Ride like the devil on fire”
“Ride off in to the sunset”
Photographic note
This is one set of photos from the same location with HDR layering work to control the contrast.
At last, riding my own ZX-4RR. It’s been a while but worth the wait to get the Ninja 40th anniversary edition colours and custom leathers. First ride was out to roads I know well in the North Pennines, big country with sweeping curves under a wide sky.
It’s good. It’s bright green. It’s light and nippy. Noisy and rides like a track bike, almost no engine braking. Not pushed the revs yet while running in, the red line is 16k revs so some way to go: I’m looking forward to screaming it like a teenager!
Good day’s riding with the Provence group of the French bike club, AMA. Coffee meet at the port of Cassis (Bouches-du-Rhône), run over the Route des Crêtes of Cap Canaille, then on up through the pine forest to pass the motorsport track at le Castellet. Down the valley of the River Gapeau to Solliès-Pont (Var) for lunch outside under the hundred year old plantane trees and the church with a Madonna (blessed by Pope Jean-Paul II) dedicated to motorbikers.
Subcategories
Alps Biker 2016
I'm riding light for a week on the mountain roads of the Alps. No laptop, although I do have my SLR camera but photos will have to wait till I'm back in Marseille..
I left Marseille for a long ride north via the Col de la Croix Haute (1179 m.) to Saint-Gervais under Mont Blanc. A bit of rain towards the end of the day which cleaned the Provence dust off my white leathers and boots but didn't soak me through.
