With the Abbaye de Chaalis, the Château de Montépilloy, the Château de Versigny and finally the Château de Jossigny, which we already know. The road between Montépilloy and Versigny is superb. The vie...

After I posted the above, I got a couple of messages that I had overlooked one potential source of leaks. The way I plugged the filler neck with an expanding stopper put the filler neck joint outside...

About 110 miles. A little warm, 83-90, depending on where I was but still nice....

The leak was where the rear mounting tab was welded to the tank. It looked like an incompete weld, or a weld may have pulled loose or cracked. This would likely be a high stress area, and it's possi...

As a made keen Adventure rider, it is very important to be able to survive in the bush in emergency situations... so using the spear I made the other day, managed to catch dinner for the night. ...

  OK - finally had some time before the 6 Nations rugby started to get the bike off the stand, sit down, twist the imaginary throttle and make Vroom Vroom noises (if you tell me you don't&nb...

Helena to Kennewick Wa. All highway. (Boring). Kennewick home. Highway 12. Except for fire detour in western Idaho. Got a little reminder to watch my speed before I even got going. (Bummer)...

Poultry in motion 20-25 pounds to the face at 30 to 40 mph, lol. In retrospect, hitting me in the middle of the face was probably the best place of all. If it had hit me from the side or at either end...

The mist had gone by the time I got to Penrith then up and over Hartside Pass, on to Alston and Alston Moor then up to Hayden Bridge. A 180° and back to Alston then a left down the B6277 to Barnard Ca...