As I always say, horses for courses, and opinions, like arseholes, everyone has one! Mine is simple, I ride a Crosstourer presently, I've owned seven Africa Twins, I will soon own my eighth AT, albeit a CRF not an XRV! I love the look of the bike (tricolour especially) and it fills all the criteria ...

Thanks for posting mate, brings it all back! Roll on next year!

I was surprised when my 955 Tiger failed for the same at 28k miles. I was even more surprised when I saw how rusty the bearings were due to water ingress! Not a difficult job really, took me a couple of hrs to change them. You wouldn't want them to jam halfway round a roundabout would you? Have a lo...

Exactly Andy,that's my point!If the fashion would change,which I think it will,as the average age continues to rise and people start to realise they don't want a big,heavy adventure bike maybe we will start to get more choice of sport touring bikes.I admit the XR1000 is heading in the right directi...

Stunning example mate, enjoy!

Here's the only pic I took with the painted lady in it! LHS, light brown t shirt, I was afraid to take her picture in case she battered me! She looked well hard! LOL!

We've stopped in Fussen a couple of times, another fine castle nearby, Newschwanstein. Agreed, Germany is a very fine country with so much to see.

Cheers folks, Sprintster, I hope you get the weather, it's a lovely area and can't rate it enough. Here's a few more pics, hopefully Fiona will post up a couple as well. Here's all the usual suspects from the trip Allofusatthecastlesm.jpg More cave shots Cave02sm.jpg Cave03sm.jpg Fionaandme04sm.jpg ...

Summer 2015 Bears, Fish eagles, beavers and painted ladies,,, Germany at its best. Fiona and myself decided our summer break this year would be to join our friends Pete and Debs on a tour of the Frankishche Schweiz area of Bayrouth, Germany. Peters parents live in Bamberg and his brother had went to...

Hi all, while waiting for my new Africa Twin to turn up (spoke to Honda Ecosse today, confirmed I'll get the first one in)I decided to have a look around at what's out there that interests me as I feel the need! I've still got my Honda VFR1200X Crosstourer which I love to bits and am heading to Germ...