Tim’s worked as a motoring journalist for nearly a decade and a half but has been riding motorcycles for longer than that, and over the past few years has channelled his two-wheeled passion into a YouTube channel imaginatively called ‘Tim Rodie Rides Motorbikes’.

When not testing shiny new motorcycles in the UK and abroad, Tim rides what is surely the world’s only Yamaha MT-10 SP fitted with a top box and touring windscreen. He’s owned an eclectic mix of bikes in the past, including a KTM 1290 Super Adventure, Ducati 1198 and Triumph Daytona 675.

He’s generally happiest when razzing around Vosges mountain roads and stopping occasionally to look at World War I graveyards.