Flies in your Teeth
Friday, 27 February 2015

Thank you Bike Safe. You probably saved my life today.

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To my biking friends out there, always remember your life-savers when riding. I learned about always checking over your right or left sho...
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Sunday, 11 January 2015

Do Harley-Davidson Riders Secretly Admire Sportsbikes?

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To many who ride chrome-laden and heavy Harley-Davidson motorcycles, mixing with the sportsbike crowd doesn’t often happen. Sportsbikes ar...
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Thursday, 8 January 2015

Is Tour Route Planning As Good As The Real Thing?

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So the motorbikes are put away, and many of us are sitting here in the depths of winter.  In some places it is cold outside and in others i...
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Wednesday, 10 December 2014

What makes a great motorcycle road?

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Like many, I have read quite a few lists of "Best Roads".  But, I have often wondered why people chose those particular roads, so ...
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Saturday, 6 December 2014

Average US gasoline prices plummet at the pumps, but do we see the same in the UK?

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According to the Triple A website (American Automobile Association) prices at US gas pumps have fallen from an average of $3.27 a gallon a ...
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Monday, 1 December 2014

Putting Your Motorcycle Away For Winter, aka Winterizing.

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Depending on where you live and local weather conditions, you might need to stop using your motorcycle during the winter months. If you sto...
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Friday, 28 November 2014

Motorcycle Tour to the Harley-Davidson Rally in St Tropez

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One of my favourite Harley-Davidson rallies is the European Festival, held in St Tropez and Grimaud each year. Getting some early season ri...
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Tuesday, 25 November 2014

What a great motorcycle touring video

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I love this video as it really shows what is so fantastic about motorcycle touring. At 20 minutes it is long, but they cram loads into it ...
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Sunday, 2 November 2014

One heck of a USA road trip on a Harley-Davidson

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Okay, my regular readers will have seen some of these pictures before and people who have read my book 'France In America' certainl...
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Monday, 13 October 2014

The magnitude of the WW1 Battlefields stir emotions

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I just returned from a visit to the WW1 Western Front, where I saw the battlefields, memorials and cemeteries. I went to look and to discov...
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Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Tour1 - Motorcycle tours to European Harley-Davidson rallies.

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Check out the new video for my motorcycle touring business. Filmed on one of the 2014 tours, this shows the sorts of roads and places we t...
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Friday, 5 September 2014

Busy at Faaker See

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While I will post more pictures and a write up later of the tour to European Bike Week in Faaker See, Austria, here is just one picture.  Th...
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Friday, 1 August 2014

I went riding with a few friends last weekend.....

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It was the Fenlanders HOG Rally, in Fakenham, Norfolk, near the east coast of England.  Somebody snapped this picture of my bike with a few...
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Monday, 23 June 2014

Ban Google Glass when driving?

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Seriously, does anyone think Google Glass is a good idea when driving a car? Google Glass, which looks like a pair of glass frames with a ...
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Harley-Davidson's go to St Tropez with Tour1

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The first Tour1 road trip of the year is complete. Our trip to get to St Tropez covered about 1,400 miles over six days of riding in Fran...
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Gary France
Having devoted most of my adult life to being a ‘company man’, the transition to the next phase of my life away from the construction industry was always going to include some challenges. Planning and then making my dream trip to explore America on my Harley-Davidson proved to be the ideal vehicle for clearing my mind of old ways of thinking and being. I rode 21,475 miles, in 27 US states in four-and-a-half months. My motorcycling trips have continued, with journeys across much of Europe, New Zealand, North Africa and Cuba. A few years ago, I set up and now run Tour1, which takes riders on Harley-Davidson Authorised tours across Europe. See www.tour1.co.uk. I live just north of London in the UK.
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