SOUTH
Follow the link below to see some great motorbike routes starting and ending in Macclesfield; these go South of Macclesfield.
Ride-Outs – East Of Macclesfield
EAST
Check out some great motorbike routes starting and ending in Macclesfield; these go east of Macclesfield.
Continue reading “Ride-Outs – East Of Macclesfield”
Site update – Theme Change
Update: If you’ve noticed there’s been a change of theme on the site,
this is a great clean looking theme that allows the cycling of custom header
images for the site! Check out the rest of the images in the Galleries as well!
this is a great clean looking theme that allows the cycling of custom header
images for the site! Check out the rest of the images in the Galleries as well!
Photos Update: Gigs
I’ve updated the Gigs section with some backdated photos and added JT [post=85] Kylie [post=86] and Tenacious D [post=87]
My first Ride-out: to the Ponderosa
Having been on many short ride-outs, either on my own or with A.N. Other person, this is the first of merit to let you know about!
As with most of these events, it started with a phone call the afternoon before from a longstanding friend(s Dad, Philip) asking if I like to join then on a ride at 11am the next day. (The friend, Liam, lives in London so these ‘group’ Ride-outs only come by when he’s visiting home).
I cleaned the bike down and fuelled her up in prep for the next day, which reminds me, the bike still hasn’t been named! Suggestions welcome!
Power Boat Licence
A bit of background to this one first.
If you want to pilot a powerboat in European or UK waters you need:
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An International Certificate of Competence (ICC) (RYA INFO)
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Attain the ICC in the discipline that you are wanting to use (MORE RYA INFO)
The discipline that we are going to cover here is the ICC Level 2 (link here) which is: Coastal waters; Powerboat up to 10m in length; for Pleasure use only.
This is a 2 day course to be taken with a qualified instructor and covers off all the necessary for you to be “self-sufficient powerboating at a basic levelâ€
Now for the instruction days:
Motorcycle Licence: Part II: The Lessons & Test
After now passed our CBT it was just the big hurdle of the Bike practical test and the inconvenience of the theory test that we had to overcome!
The beast had dropped off the radar at this point happy with his CBT accomplishment, which left Captain Slow and myself to get our lessons booked in and completed with the run up to our tests. This wasn’t easy as Tim has a busy schedule and I am pretty easy going, so the first couple of lessons we took apart. Also due to Tim’s solid performance on the CBT day out he didn’t need as many lessons as me to get up to standard.
2 weeks to go till the first lesson… Continue reading “Motorcycle Licence: Part II: The Lessons & Test”
The Motorbike Licence Part I – The CBT
 Well, as a lot of items on my ‘to do’ list actually involve a motorbike, it was about time that I pulled my finger out and actually did what I had been debating for many years…. and try to pass my Motorbike licence!
From what had started as drunken chats like: “Yeah, that would be awesome, let do our bike licence” for about 3 years, it took an organised man (Tim Williams, later known as Captain Slow) to call around for quotes and availability for instruction to finally book us in for our CBT. Continue reading “The Motorbike Licence Part I – The CBT”
New Site Go-Live
If your a regular visitor to the site you’ll notice that the site has dramatically changed. This has been done to make it a lot easier so add more content so I can keep the site current and hence, giving you guys more updated content to look at.
The main feature additions that you’ll see are the:
- The use off RSS feeds – so you can subscribe and stay up to date with the sites posts Continue reading “New Site Go-Live”