From 2008 to, I guess, 2012 or 2013, motorcycle blogs were such an important corner of the emerging new landscape of motorcycling. Ideas and experiences shared in a very different way to the prevailing Instagramification of motorcycle social media that is almost completely image led and all on the surface with none of the stories that blogs used to share. Sideburn posted a blog everyday for years on end, and continue to blog now, of course. I know this might sound like someon

All this week's talk of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook is making people smugly state, 'If the product is free, you're the product,' and that is plainly horseshit spouted by someone who has conveniently forgotten about blogs. Or charity, or volunteering, or plenty of other stuff, but mainly blogs. Blogs, God, I miss blogs. I still visit some of my old favourites, try the locks, knock on the windows, shout through the catflap. I don't get much back. Sure, there are a few othe

This Honda Transalp 650 was built by Cool Kids Customs in the Netherlands and is the second Transalp I've seen this year that made me seriously consider buying one (the other was at SnowQuake). I saw the bike on Lenny Schuurmans'* Bubble Visor blog and he described the bike's components as 'Lego-coloured'. The distressed bodywork reminds me of flanks of an old fishing boat on a trailer. It could do with a front mudguard and rear fender to stop the rider being covered in Dutch

Blogs, remember them? Man, I miss the heyday of blogs. Instagram and facebook gone done killed most of them, but not all. We're still going at it, hammer and tongs, and Lennard Schuurman's Bubble Visor blog is still serving up dozens of photos at a time, both originals and those 'curated' from around the interwebs. These are just a handful of Lenny's own shots from the recent Flatlands Festival held at Lelystad Speedway, Netherlands. Raise your hands, type Yeah!, if you still