AGAINST ALL ODDS...
A t what point does a road trip become an adventure? Does it have to include modern adventure bikes so big they have their own postcodes? Or can it be a left field thing that challenges both rider and bike? Surely ‘challenge’ is the key word – wherever you go and whatever you ride doesn’t matter, it’s the challenge that makes the trip.
That was my thinking behind a sudden announcement one evening in the pub, that I would finish the restoration of my 1958 ex-racing Triton by early summer, grab a ferry to Bilbao and then ride home solo up the west coast of France. I had always planned to do something special when the restoration was finished, but let's not
