It's been a while

Brighton & Hove

What a great place to live. I have a small 1 bedroom mews house in Hove, off Western Road.

I started a City and Guilds motorcycle maintenance, level 1 course in Chichester. The first year will cover all the minor repairs needed on a modern bike, work to the gear box and other, more complex tasks will be taught in the second year.
What I like about the course is that it has a wide variety of machines bought by the college for us to work on. There are many bikes in the garage, enabling us to work on a number of different set ups, both electronicly and mechanically.

I am doing this course to be able to fix my bike competently. I am taught how to do things in a certain, high tech way and from here it is up to me, my Adventure Motorcycle Handbook and the Horizon Unlimited website for ways to implement what I have been taught whilst I am on the road. As my skills get better a long trip comes closer.

Please admire the pictures of the surrounding areas of Brighton. It is half term now and my biking lust is being lived. I would never have thought an adventure would be possible in England. How wrong I was.


I was very excited at the prospect of riding my bike to college 3 times a week but after a few runs, this trip became unbearable, for 3 reasons. 1. Having to partake in an hours ride first thing in the bloody morning. 2. Riding before I have had any breakfast and in the height of rush hour traffic. 3. Finishing a day working in the garage and having to do the same journey again, tired, hungry and in rush hour = disgruntled biker. So...after some thought, I came to the realization that I am not a commuter, I am a traveller. Biking to me should have no purpose other than experience and plesure.