Someone has had to drop out of our 2017 Sideburn x Helmet Stories Himalayan trip, so it means we have two places available for NEXT MONTH'S trip. You must be in New Delhi on Saturday 9 September 2017 to be able to catch a train at 7.40am on Sunday 10th. Fly home on 18 September 2017. Helmet Stories can suggest hotels if you wish to arrive before or leave later to have more time to acclimatise and relax. Price: 125,000 rupees (£1475, €1650, US $ 1950, AUD 2450) The trips inclu

My memory is shocking, people remind me of conversations we've had, profound, deep, sometimes helpful conversations and I stare blankly back at them. In motorcycling terms, I have experienced incredible adventures all over the world, as a paying punter, journalist and amateur racer, but, I reckon, that I'm so focussed on future deadlines that the memories get drowned out by an almost constant static hum of mild stress of delivering the next story/magazine/event... But, I thin

Photos: Vir Nakai/Helmet Stories The dates and prices are out for the Helmet Stories x Sideburn Himalayan Adventure are out now. Head over to the STORIES page to read Travis's report from 2016, see a bunch of evocative photos from the same trip and all the details for 2017. Paul L made the short and shaky film, below, on the road on the same 2016 trip that gives a good taste of the terrain you can expect. The riding is slightly challenging, like you'd want it, but nowhere nea