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Motorcycles

Scooterrific!

November 4, 2009

Crazy times here at IB Towers with a silly amount of work to crack through. None of which has been helped by the arrival of the latest addition to the fleet! I started my motorcycling career back in 1997. I was totally fed up with watching bikes pass me in commuting traffic so decide to [...]

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The Big Four-Oh: Been There, Done That

January 28, 2008

Great day on Saturday with the kids to celebrate my birthday. Started with cards in bed and then a nice big breakfast together, took Orla to ballet (equals me drinking latte and reading Kate Muir) and we all went for lunch at the Spencer Arms in Chapel Brampton, very nice. Then a drive in the country with [...]

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Mostly In Praise of eBay

January 22, 2008

Looking through the various bike boards, it seems there is a growing discontent surrounding the eBay process versus the rewards, with more than a few people advertising stuff below expectations, to avoid ‘having to do the eBay thing’. I’ve been doing the eBay thing for quite a while and for me, the buzz is still there. OK [...]

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More Ducati Action

January 21, 2008

Have been using my new 750 Monster quite a bit lately, despite the foul UK weather, and I have to say it is a really great little machine. The riding position is not as scrunched up as you would imagine when first sitting on the bike at a show or in a dealership. It’s very comfy, though [...]

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Ducati for Dad

January 16, 2008

Three weeks from that birthday and a purple Ducati arrives in the garage, my first bike in six and a half years. It can’t be my mid-life crisis as I had that last year (and the year before, now I think about it). Unbridled enthusiasm for the new arrival is matched only by the happiness of having an [...]

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Not Quite Forty…

January 16, 2008

So I’m coming up on forty now and how does it feel? Like any other age I suppose, with the exception that my birthday sounds like a bloody big number for the first time. Taking stock is what they say fortieth birthdays are all about, and for most men with a brain made for filing trivia, [...]

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