Back in November I was invited on a flying visit to Goa, India, for Royal Enfield's RiderMania owners meeting. I shuffled a few things around, got the shortest turnaround possible and started out on a 47-hour round trip. The big attraction for me was to ride the new Himalayan flat trackers. We had a feature lined up for SB39, which had just gone to print, focussing on the S&S Cycle prepared fleet of Himalayans, built with carbon fibre bodywork. I thought the bikes I was lined

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There are times when my sunshine life, with its candy floss clouds, cream cheese moon and lemonade gushing from every tap, gets too saccharine sweet, even for me, and I need some gritty realism to reset the dial. Something like this. Harley, from the Isle of Man, sent the link through, with a simple note, 'I need a lie down now'. I know what he means. The clip, from the movie, Adavi Donga, left me an emotional wreck too. The nuance and layers of tension mixed with a withering

[Off-Topic Sunday on a Wednesday] It is the 70th anniversary of the partition of India, when the British Empire finally handed back the nation to its people, but, without going into it too deeply, still managed to cause a deep and hideously brutal outcome, by splitting the region into India and Pakistan, with Bangladesh to follow with its own independence in 1971. Because of Britain's huge involvement, the BBC news has been reporting from the region all week. The tension betw