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Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part The Last

26th January 2018 RowenaH Features Leave a comment

Nick Adams has been riding the unpaved logging roads through Quebec’s forests on his Moto Guzzi Nuovo Falcone. Would a modern adventure motorcycle have been a better choice of two-wheeled transport for this trip? As with the road to Parent, the 120 miles of road between Parent and La Tuque was a well maintained gravel highway and not the forest…

Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part Two

24th January 2018 RowenaH Features Leave a comment

Last time, Nick Adams set off on his Moto Guzzi Falcone 500 for a quick spin around the logging roads of Quebec. This time, the traffic comes closer than is entirely comfortable… Parent is a typical, small, isolated railway village: a scattering of houses and public buildings bisected by the railway, the heart and focus of the community. I crossed…

Readers’ Rides: a Guzzi gallop, Part One

22nd January 2018 RowenaH Features 2 comments

Moto Guzzi’s Nuovo Falcone is a solidly put-together 500 single. It’s far from fast, but it’s famous for going on forever. That’s just as well. When RC’s Canadian correspondent, Nick Adams, goes for a ‘short trip’ on the unpaved roads around Quebec, the miles soon mount up… Whenever I ride the Nuovo Falcone I’m always pleasantly surprised at how easily…

Frank’s Famous Last Words, #46

22nd December 2017 RowenaH Features Leave a comment

Everyone gets excited by the new project. But take care, say Frank Westworth, a man who has begun more projects than most. It is too easy to stumble along the way especially if, for some bizarre reason, you choose not to restore a Norton… A most excellent friend has just ground to a halt in his restoration project. He is…

Biker Down – First Aid

1st November 2017 RowenaH Features Leave a comment

If you’re the first person on the scene at a road traffic accident which involves a motorcyclist, do you know what to do? The UK’s Fire and Rescue Service runs an award-winning, free, emergency first aid training scheme. Lawrence Howes went along… My club section recently attended a Biker Down session; a national initiative to reduce the consequences of motorcycle…

Frank’s Famous Last Words #45

1st September 2017 RowenaH Features Leave a comment

Is today a BSA day? Frank Westworth remembers 1971 or so, when the threat of precipitation in biblical proportions affected which old Britbike was likely to be pressed into service… FW himself and a Beesa Ceefer. And waterproofs… ‘It’s a BSA day!’ That was my friend Geoffrey, back somewhere in the mists of time, coming out with what became something…