The Leading Ladies are coming home!

Good News!It seems that my black bike, the Leading Ladies, is finally on the way back home.My regular readers will know that the bike has been held up in US Customs because of a slight problem with the administrative side of how the customs department work. Basically, when the bike was imported in New...

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I Have a Bike Again!

There is still no news about how the paperwork is going to repatriate the Leading Ladies back to the UK. I will follow this up with the shippers today to find out what the current status is.I did however get my red custom bike back over the weekend. This meant driving a 792 miles round trip in...

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2010 Headers

I was looking at Eve's blog, Sunny Side Up and saw that she had collected together all of the header photos used at the top of her blog during 2010. Realising this was a terrific idea, I did what any self-respecting person would do and, I , err, borrowed it.So, here are my header pictures from 2010...

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Riding Through Spain

For England, we are having a lot of snow at the moment. It is cold. I saw a temperature of -11.5C the other day. Oddly this is almost the same amount in Fahrenheit -11.3F.My red bike is stuck in Ireland, awaiting the weather to improve so it can be road tested after having some work done on it. The...

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The Leading Ladies are stuck in LA

How about this for bureaucratic nonsense!It has been a few weeks since I delivered my bike, the “Leading Ladies” to the shipping agent in LA, so a few days ago I enquired about when the bike would be back in the UK. I was told by the shipping agent there is a problem as the US Customs people in LA wanted to see the original import paperwork before they are prepared to release the bike for shipping....

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Thousand Mile Photos

My regular readers will know that while I was on my tour, I stopped at every thousand miles point on my journey and took a photo looking forward. Most of the time, this meant just stopping, grabbing my point and shoot camera, jumping off my bike and taking a quick picture at the side of the road. I...

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Adjusting Back to Life in the UK

Okay, so I have been back home for a couple of weeks now and I have been very busy. It seemed strange having to re-adjust to life back in the UK. Of course being back with Jackie was wonderful, but getting used to driving on the left side of the road has proved to be remarkably difficult! Soon after...

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