The benefits of commuting via motorcycle and scooter are obvious to those who ride, but if you’ve never commuted on two wheels, the below
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Tag: Riding Advice
Riding Advice
Riding tips: Turning round on a gravel car park
You’ve passed your test and are now a master of U-turns. Brilliant – until you have to spin it round in a gravel car
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Riding tips: Carrying a pillion
Being a passenger on a bike can either be the most exhilarating experience of someone’s life or the most terrifying. It’s all down to
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Rural road observation skills
Riding on rural roads can be quite a challenge. Tight bends, unexpected wildlife and narrow lanes complicate matters, but if you get it right these roads
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Survival tips: Slow riding
Imagine you’re riding through town, and the traffic in front of you begins to slow, to 20mph, then 10mph…then less, but it keeps moving. There’s
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Top 10 survival tips: Roundabouts
Wherever you ride, you can’t get away from roundabouts. There are about 10,000 of them around the UK (the French have three times as many)
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Scooters 101
Nothing gets around town faster and cheaper than a scooter. Small (usually) engines, automatic transmissions, simple chassis and enough bodywork to keep some of the
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Streetfighters 101
Street fighters – also known as ‘naked’ bikes – are sports bikes with no fairings, wider handlebars and usually an engine retuned for less peak
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Adventure bikes 101
Loosely based on off-road machines for that ‘rugged-adventurer’ look, although most are just good all-round road bikes in disguise. Pull up at the chip shop
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Cruisers 101
Laid-back, chrome plated easy riders which still deliver that tingle of freedom and an emotional ride. Not fast, but quick enough to see off most
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