lorries in my way and are vastly more unpredictable and nervy. Even if you are lucky enough to get by without incident there's another variety club bus load of them round the next bend, and the next.. Enough I say.

on to tell me that it's pretty much the same reason that motorcyclists are being met with resistance in regard to driving in bus lanes. It's not the government saying bikes are unsafe but the government agencies (who the government obviously listen to

they chose to stand there and queue' when a runaway bendy-bus ploughs into a line of commuters. The responsibility issue is a thorny one for amateur and pro stunters alike. So allow me to clarify it for you in simple terms, pro stunters at organised events

, roving all over Red. "These babies run for ever.... change the oil, change the timing belts.... they run forever."I looked at Red. "Let's give it a go," I said. "If we head for Texas and the bike coughs it up, we'll part it out and take a bus home

't necessarily quickest. Traffic and traffic lights will slow you down so it's worth trying a few different routes even if it looks like more miles.2. Bus lanes can be handy (look at the signs to see when you can ride in them), but watch out for traffic turning

on the crown of the road craning to see down the outside of the Sainsbury's lorry, there's a side-turning coming up with a Range-Rover-Mum in it and the bus behind you has stopped. In about 30 seconds you might be having one of the common bike accidents

, and they absolutely will not stop, ever, until we are all dead behind the eyes. I hate them all and I hope they all die. Soon. If I want to be safe, I'll take the bus. The whole fucking POINT of me riding a bike is to scare the willies off me. That's why I do it

'bus stop' hairpin at the far end of the circuit before a sweeping 'traight', a tight infield double hairpin section and banked elements of the circuit running into a final flip flop downhill section to a tight final corner that was bound to create some

of this deeply beautiful country and I was faithful to the road. I felt as though I were running my hands over the landscape and intimate with it; much more so than I would have been if I'd been looking at it from a tour bus. The E6 was stunning. Breath taking