RIDE BETTER!
The best part about riding a motorcycle isn’t through towns or on A-roads and motorways, but on the twisting ribbons of Tarmac that we love so much.
There are few feelings better than when you’ve smoothly negotiated your favourite set of bends, especially on a cool classic which turns heads more than the latest plastic crotch-rocket – although I do like those too! Now, this isn’t the first mighty tome of general opinions and advice I’ve put together with the editor of this fine magazine, but chatting about it reveals the greatest truth: we’re never too old to learn! Like older bikes shod with better/newer tyres that improve their handling, we older bikers can pick up tips to help us ride better and enjoy our biking more.
If I’m honest, I spent my early years on the road, then most of my career on a track and it was only, say, 20 or so years back when my race career was coming to an end that I really re-embraced road riding. I now
