Motorcycling and Tom

This is just somewhere for me to hang my motorcycling hat, and eventually put up tour writeups and touring pictures.

Here are some writeups:

And you may also like the album of Summer 2021's tour of Wales. It's not a writeup per se, but it includes a fair number of explanatory captions. Plus it was the first tour where I had trip recording running nearly the whole time, so there are some half-decent maps of our route.

If you liked that, you may be happy to learn that I did, too, so there are similar albums for the 2023 tour of Ireland, and my own 2024 bimble around Western England.

Incidentally, if you live and ride in the UK, and aren't a member of MAG, the Motorcycle Action Group, you're taking a real chance with your own ability to ride the bike you like, in the manner you like, in the future. EU regulations, intransigent or downright hostile highways authorities, liability-related changes, poorly-maintained roads, all of these and many other threats continually face UK riders. Banding together through MAG is the best way I know to fight them. If you're in some other European country, find your local FEMA affiliate, and support them.
I'm afraid after the election of Neil Liversidge as the chair of MAG, and MAG's subsequent lurch towards climate change denial, I am unable to recommend MAG any more. I surrendered my own life membership after an exchange of letters with the chair, wherein he tried to persuade me that there was no anthropogenic climate change and that MAG policy should be founded on convincing everyone else that this was so. Perhaps at some point in the future he'll be replaced by a chairperson whose head is not quite so firmly retro-inserted, but until then I believe they do more harm than good.

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