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Neale Bayly Rides: Addiction
Posted by Neale Bayly | May 1, 2023 | Ride Life, Rides & Roads | 6 |
An Englishman In Ukraine
Posted by Neale Bayly | Sep 12, 2022 | Ride Life, Rides & Roads | 2 |
The Mantainer
Posted by Ted Edwards | May 16, 2022 | Ride Life, Rides & Roads | 1 |
The Bad Editor by Peter Jones
Posted by Rob Brooks | Jun 7, 2021 | Ride Life | 0 |
My Brothers – Our Bikes Part 2
by Phil Gauthier | Jul 14, 2023 | Ride Life | 1 |
Nate was still racing, but for me and Greg the smell of premix was replaced by Gatorade, sunblock and trips to our children’s little league games and school functions. Deep down the feeling of the wind and two wheeled power was still drawing us back to our early love of riding.
Read MoreNeale Bayly Rides: Addiction
by Neale Bayly | May 1, 2023 | Ride Life, Rides & Roads | 6 |
My name is Neale Bayly. I’ve been an addict for more than 40 years now and don’t see any signs that I’ll ever recover. My addiction has driven me to the depths of despair and to levels of euphoria that only other addicts will understand. I’ve missed out on steady employment, making large interest payments, storage sheds full of shit and closets full of expensive clothes. When I go to sleep at night, I’m haunted by the memories that drive me further into my addiction.
Read MoreAn Englishman In Ukraine
by Neale Bayly | Sep 12, 2022 | Ride Life, Rides & Roads | 2 |
We’ve followed the travels and writings of motorcycle rider and internationally known writer Neale Bayly for years. The Englishman now residing in America has seen much of the world from the saddle of a motorbike, and has shared the best of humanity in the wonderful people he has met the world over. In this travelogue series from his recent motorcycle trip into war-torn Ukraine, Neale gives us a glimpse from the ground of life under fire in the eastern European nation. With acclaimed photographer Kiran Ridley, Neale pulls back the veil to show the world what a regional superpower is doing to this beautiful nation and its resilient, big-hearted people.
Read MoreThe Mantainer
by Ted Edwards | May 16, 2022 | Ride Life, Rides & Roads | 1 |
Angry skies followed us out north of Wenatchee that September day, dark and menacing they were, rumbling all the while, waiting for the perfect moment to drench us in their fury. When the skies cracked open they poured out their anger in an intolerable rain that drenched the forested land, hammering away at us and our bikes, a misery from which there was no refuge. We had to keep going. Stopping just prolonged the agony.
Read MoreThe Road by T.E. Lawrence
by Rob Brooks | Jun 16, 2021 | Legendary Bikes, Ride Life | 8 |
After we published our story on “Lawrence of Arabia and the Motorcycle Helmet”, a reader sent us the link to a chapter out of Lawrence’s book, “The Mint”, recounting his years of service as an enlisted cadet and airman in the RAF following the First World War. Lawrence entered service under the alias T.E. Ross, due to his world fame, and went to work in the daily grind of the military in post-war England. Yet he developed a love for all things fast and dangerous- namely, airplanes and motorcycles. He became a skilled mechanical engineer, but continued writing, keeping memoirs of his time in the service in his tome entitled “The Mint.” While most of this work is dry journaling, the chapter called “The Road” is stunning, a vivid account of a motorcycle ride at dusk that is both exhilarating and harrowing. It’s one of the most incredible descriptions of the feeling of riding a motorcycle, and the raw sensation of open air speed, that I’ve ever read. The descending dark, the rough roads, the throbbing beast beneath him, no helmet, no eye protection, no armored riding gear, poor suspension, lousy brakes, a side-mounted hand shifter, a near tank-slapper at speed, and an RAF Bristol fighter overhead- see if you don’t visualize and feel the ride yourself as you read Lawrence’s account.
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