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PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS

Like Frank, riding for me has to have a destination to aim for. Our roads in Canada are mostly wide smooth and fast with corners that are best taken as fast as you can (surely the only way?). The Sea to Sky Highway from where I live to Whistler is a good example. Having said that, there are times where the higher speeds such roads demand aren’t always what a rider wants. At such times I like to travel on the quiet back roads where the circumstances dictate a much slower, 30-40mph speed at which the Guzzi Ambassador excels with its low-down torque.

To sit back and quietly burble along through sun-drenched meadows and shadowy forest, while accompanied by roadside rivers, to me imparts another joy of motorcycling. This is one of being totally in touch with each lazy beat of the engine beneath you. I rarely change out of top gear through the many and varied curves. Destination? Yes, the end of the road that you take for no better reason than the riding pleasure such a road imparts...

Mick Webb, member

We are as one, Mick. My own delight is to clear conurbations using motorways as rapidly as possible, then throttle back down small roads, just following the front wheel until I get where I’m going. Usually for a good feed and an entertaining evening.

Frank W

A TRIBUTE TO MR MINTON

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a special award for the very best motorcycling journalists? It could be a biannual presentation, and I suggest it be named the Ixion Tribute, after Canon Basil H Davis. He covered the growth of motorcycling from 1905 to the 1950s, reporting on the development of a form of transport that could not be ignored. That’s what a good, accurate journalist does. His opinion