My name is Paul Davies and I’m a 50-year-old scooterist. I started riding scooters on the back of the early 1980s mod revival. I bought my first one, a Vespa 50 Special, on 15 April 1983. Since then, I’ve owned around 60 scooters, including mod-style, cut-downs, choppers, street racers and full restorations – and… Read more »
The Monkey Run is back and this time The Adventurists are off to Peru, where you could join them on their epic motorcycle journey through the Amazon rainforest. Having previously taken the Monkey Run around Morocco, ‘the dawn of a new adventure’ will now take place on a different continent, which will provide challenges as… Read more »
You might think that you need a Scrooge McDuck-scale money pit to get involved in motorsport, but you’d be surprised at how easy it is to get started without breaking the bank. Bikesure, the freewheeling insurance brokers, takes a look at everything you’ll need to know if you think you’ve got what it takes to… Read more »
The hair, the shoulder pads, the music and the fashion – there’s lots about the 1980s that we remember fondly, and lots of it we’d rather forget… There’s no denying that the 1980s were a peculiar time, not least for the incredible (if incredibly bad..) film and TV that was released. Some of it, though,… Read more »
In the third and final part of our look at the other side of USA biker culture, here’s where to go if you’re lucky enough to be taking a trip Stateside any time soon. Motorcycling can be a pretty solitary pursuit. But, like most solitary pursuits, it’s more fun with other people around. If you… Read more »
