Restoring a pair of riding pants

I just dyed my old (first) pair of BMW City riding pants and now they look almost as good as when I first purchased them. Originally a charcoal colour they faded to a pale grey which did not look good but otherwise they still were in excellent condition. I purchased some charcoal fabric dye from eBay cheap and 30 minutes of soaking in hot water with the dye gave me an excellent result. The photo

BMW Airflow 4 Jacket review

I have previously owned three dedicated summer jackets but never been really happywith any of them. The first jacket was a $99 clearance bin item made by Dryrider that I purchased 10+ years ago. This was a very light weight item with minimal protection but maximum cooling. I expected to use it for a limited time until I found something better however I still have this jacket and was using it on

Go your own way

I think that was a motorcycle slogan once. I know I have said it before in this blog somewhere but today the thought came to me anew not recycled from the past. I was riding my old favourite loop into NSW via Mt Lindsey, Summerland way, Kyogle, Uki, Numinbah and was thinking what a great ride this is and I should call it, and todays post, old faithful. But that sounds like riding is not so

Removal of LinkWithin

This is off topic but I wanted to share to non readers of this blog seeking to remove LinkWithin. I have disabled the LinkWithin widget as I suspect it to be in some way malicious. This widget once installed seems to embed its code and the company will not supply any information how to remove it. That should ring alarm bells. Because I do not know if what I have done is safe or not I suggest if

Honda CB1100 long term update and info summary

  (Further update below) The new CB1100 is now a global model and no doubt that will bring many new sites with lots of information about it but in the mean time here is a summary from the CB1100 Facebook community page that I have run the last couple of years. I want to summarise the Facebook page since all older posts and therefore the bulk of information shared there is simply lost as it does

Holiday reading

My motorcycle tour for this years festive season was impacted by weather and personal illness so I ended up spending more time indoors than on the road. This allowed me to catch up on some reading, motorcycle touring books of course. And I will give a brief review on each. Leanings This is a selection, a ‘best of’ collection, of short stories by Peter Egan who writes for Cycle World, a North

Dirty day out

At last a weekend where it was not thunderstorms. About time the weather came good and today it brought everyone out for a ride. Had no real plan and decided to retrace some of my last ride that I had to abort due to rain. Over Currumbin and zig zag around via North Arm to avoid Murwillumbah, then went to see how the view was from Baker Road on such a clear morning.  And I was not disappointed.