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New: Hein Gericke journey gtx jacket
By Visordown on 01/04/2008 11:26:08
New product showcase from Visordown
This jacket is a functional, robust, Gore-tex laden quality garment.It does the job of keeping you warm and dry and can’t be faulted in that respect. The styling is simple, but I’d put it at the plainer end of that scale.You could call it a bit dull, but considering the quality, ...
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Ten MILLION car journeys a day logged by Police
By Visordown News on 15/09/2008 09:33:09
Civil liberty groups call for answers after 'Big Brother' scheme is uncovered
THERE IS a call for explanation after it has been revealed that as many as ten MILLION car journeys a day in the UK are being logged by the police.A civil liberty group has said the information about where and how road users get about
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Epic biking holidays - of a lifetime?
By Robin Goodwin on 31/01/2011 09:18:35
Two exciting journeys with Compass Expeditions
quarter of the world's surface across Switzerland, Hungary, Russia and Mongolia, tackling some of the dauntingly named routes such as the Road of Bones and the Road of Death. But it's the sights that are visited along the way that sell this journey
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To Hell and Back - Derbi GPR50, Aprilia SXV, Quadzilla
By Andy Stevens, Jon Urry, Jon Bentman on 30/03/2010 09:27:22
A journey of pain, suffering and 573 miles to Cornwall on a temperamental supermoto, a 50cc sportsbike and an unstable quad.
like shared suffering, the rigours of a hard journey combined with terrible weather and running out of fuel are nourishment for the biker's body and soul. Apparently, we live for this sort of thing.So we assembled the most unlikely collection
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First Ride: Honda Goldwing
By Tony Middlehurst & Krys Freeman on 19/10/2010 10:27:23
Former Superbike magazine editor Tony Middlehurst takes his better half on a journey across the Lakes
across Shap Fell.But take away the freak weather and there’s no disputing the Wing’s big-roads ability. Monumental journeys are despatched with ruthless effi ciency. The two-valve, sixpot 1800cc motor’s max torque comes in at 4,000rpm, max power at 5
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Westminster City Council's response to mass demo
By Visordown News on 12/03/2009 19:36:24
"I call on you to cancel your protest ride on 31st March, which willinevitably delay Londoners seeking to go about their business, many on their journey home"
FOLLOWING THE announcement that there will be a peaceful protest on 31st March 2009 against the introduction of an “experimental parking tax” on motorcycles and scooters, Westminster City Council have written to the organisers in an attempt to disuade them from holding the demons...
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Bikers & Bullet Holes Adventure
By Tim Cummings on 19/10/2010 12:04:31
A 3,000 mile trek across Europe, turn right at Croatia and ride all the way down to Albania, which last saw armed conflict in 2002. What happens when three normal blokes ride three normal bikes to the furthest reaches of Eastern Europe?
You are riding all ze vay to Albania?”, asks the German girl. Yes, that’s the plan we tell her. “So you are not afraid of vor unt of bandits?”, she asks, big blue eyes wide and questioning.To be honest I’m afraid of paintballing and the group of 14-year-olds who hang about outsid...
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Jet & Rent - Athens
By John Hogan on 22/12/2008 09:30:25
The sights of Greek capital as seen from the seat of a bike
For those of you that haven’t read the first two installments of Jet & Rent, let me fill you in on a few details. The first trip I went on was to Bosnia, while the other two adventurers were sunning themselves in glorious parts of the globe I was being chased by serbian gangsters...
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In Search of the Gotland Ring
By John Cantlie on 20/10/2010 12:41:19
Sweden. Home to Volvos and Saabs, Viggens and Vikings, preposterously expensive beer and – quite frankly – the most beautiful women on earth. ll in all, possibly the last place on earth that you’d expect anyone to build a brand new racetrack in Europe
We did a feature called ‘the Secret Circuits of Europe’. There at the top of the list was a place called the Gotland Ring. It looked fascinating. Built on the island of Gotland 50 miles east of the Swedish mainland in the frigid Baltic sea, the circuit is built on a limestone qua...
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Speed trippy
By Sachin Rao on 25/01/2013 10:37:28
Motorcycling with masala
FED up of your commute? Check out Indian motorcycle journo Aneesh Shivanekar's average morning, filmed as he rode his KTM Duke 200 between the Mumbai suburbs of Andheri and Bandra (a distance of about 7 miles, or half his one-way journey). And no
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