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By Guy Redshaw September 29, 2020January 14, 2024 Cannondale MX400

Yes. I really have bought a Cannondale MX400. Surprised?

Firstly, as an update from this first post, and after 3 years of MX400 ownership, things have moved on a bit, so don’t forget to click the Cannondale MX400 tab in the menu to enjoy my full journey to date when you’ve read this first one below👍 Back to 2020

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By Guy Redshaw September 3, 2020February 15, 2022 Motorcycle project

It might get loud

Have you seen the film that bears the same title as this post? Yes? No? If not, you should. It has three of the most iconic guitar players ever; Jimmy Page, The Edge & Jack White, and it travels through their respective guitar times and lives. Whilst they’re all amazing

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By Guy Redshaw July 26, 2020July 26, 2020 Uncategorized

F@@k Me Pumps

The title to this post maybe familiar because it’s the title of a great Amy Winehouse track. It’s a song that walks through the possibilities of what happens when our shoes lead us down dark alleys and into shady dives. I’m taking a different approach to the title, one that

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By Guy Redshaw April 10, 2020December 28, 2024 Uncategorized

Scooters, and Hull, and Switzerland, and Thorngumbald.

I walk into the pub through the side door and am faced by a busy, but not packed bar room. This pub doesn’t have side rooms called things like ‘The Snug bar’ or ‘The Pool Room’, it is just one big room with a horseshoe shaped bar giving easy access

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By Guy Redshaw January 9, 2020May 1, 2023 Uncategorized

Heaven & Hell. My local bike shop.

This story starts and ends with the dirt on the ground. This dirt is special. It captures everything that goes on in this soulful place. Get on your knees and smell this dirt, because it smells of a blend of oil, aluminium, steel, iron, welding, fibreglass and maybe a hint

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By Guy Redshaw January 2, 2020August 18, 2022 Uncategorized

Introducing Bessie

Bessie was born in 1948, in Coventry, UK. She has a 2 litre petrol engine that can also run on TVO (Tractor Vapourising Oil), which is a mix of petrol and paraffin, and she is just one of the many innovations that her Father-designer, Harry Ferguson, came up with during

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By Guy Redshaw May 15, 2025 Uncategorized

WooHoo! Happy 50th Birthday to my Yamaha RD250!

This post celebrates a milestone for my Yamaha. It is 50 years old this month. Actually, to be fully accurate, it was first registered on 6th May 1975 in Geneva, Switzerland, 50 years ago. It had obviously been made in Japan a few months earlier before it was shipped over

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Diary of a Motorcycling Nobody
Diary of a Motorcycling Nobody

Motorcycling Past & Present and Other Stuff