Mike's Blog

Category: Motorbike

  • Should cyclists wear helmets?

    I’m not judging – honestly – I am an ‘All of the gear, all of the time’ person, and so MY opinion is that cyclists SHOULD wear a helmet – I do on my mountain bike, and I won’t let the kids play on their bikes without a helmet – I’d say that if you’re…

  • Filtering – proof that the traffic police are quite happy with it :-)

    Proof that when done sensibly, even the Traffic Police have no issue with filtering. This is the A904, heading home from Edinburgh, long traffic queue held while crashed cars are recovered. The Traffic Officer didn’t seem very interested in bikes, but was perfectly friendly and had a brief chat with me after I filtered to…

  • Video and music..

    Well, I’ll not be winning any video editing awards for this effort!! I had intended it to be a vlog, but the sound wasn’t great, and the vlog was rather meandering and not very good, so I dumped the audio from the video and lobbed a bit of music onto it. Stunning, eh?

  • Am I the only person obeying a temporary speed limit??

    There’s a temporary 30 mph speed limit on this country road because of road works for the new Forth bridge. Unfortunately, at times it seems I’m the only person obeying that limit! At the end of the section of road that carries the 30mph limit there’s a road off to the left that would be…

  • A day in the garage, working on the bike

    I spent pretty much all of Sunday in the garage – I’d got a touring scotoiler kit off ebay that fits behind the number plate, but when it arrived it was full of dirty, contaminated, oil. Spent ages emptying the scotoiler and the reserve, flushing/cleaning with very thin oil, then proper oil. Once that was…

  • RUBBISH road surface!!

    Filmed on Boxing day 2012 – this is the start of the Lugton to Dunlop road, and what an appalling road surface! Shake the fillings out of you!!

  • Stepping Stone overtaking

    Stepping Stone overtaking – done carefully on a wet road! Didn’t want to use my brakes, so was ultra careful with the throttle, and the cars were nicely spaced, so the only way to make progress here was to take them one at a time.

  • Mad Pedestrian

    Filmed this today – I ask you, on a dark night, where would you choose to cross the road? Certainly not at a spot like this I hope!!

  • Finally! A ride in daylight :-)

    Thanks to an early finish – well, it IS Christmas Eve! – I finally get to ride and film in daylight – yee ha!! Also testing a separate mic – think it works a bit better, but still room for improvement… Grabbed far more footage than was really necessary, such was the novelty of riding…

  • Queue busting – one of the best reasons to commute by bike!

    This is why I love commuting on the motorbike – big queue on the M9 because of an accident, but it didn’t hold me up too much. In fact to avoid being TOO boring I cut out 4 minutes of filtering footage, the queue was that long!