Bewdley Bikers On Tour

Since 1964 the BMW Club Mulheim an der Ruhr has organised a 3 day training course on the famous Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit. I only found out about this course through David Halsall, our BMW GB dealer representative for Cotswold BMW where I work on Saturdays, who put me in touch with Barry Salmon, one of the bike instructors. Full details of what the course offers can be found … [...]

    Part 3: The ride from Arreau to Bewdley via Carcassonne Fri 23rd July: Arreau to Carcassonne – 191 miles   The weather this morning was an improvement on the last two days which was a great relief because today we started our journey home. Our destination today was Carcassonne however before we [...]

    Part 2: Port de Bales, Col d’Aspin, Lourdes & Col du Tourmalet Mon 19th July: Port de Bales – 96 miles   We’d ridden down to the Pyrenees specifically to watch the mountain stages in this years TDF (Tour de France). This year is the 100th anniversary of racing in the Pyrenees [...]

Some people say you can’t tour on a sportsbike so raise your hand if you think you can … alright, alright, calm down all of you that say of course you can, it’s easy, they don’t build ‘em like they used to, and I remember the good old days when a sportsbike was fully focussed and damn uncomfortable with it. Ok then, scratch that. Raise your hand if you think … [...]

    Part 2: The Swiss Alps and the ride back home Wed 21st July   Wednesday seemed likely to be another good day although the waitress at breakfast thought it was going to rain – well ultimately she was right but it was still good at 12.45pm when I eventually got on the [...]

Four weeks after this year’s BBOT Tour had ended I had occasion to travel again to Switzerland. As the weather forecast was good – or at least better than it had been for the BBOT tour I decided to take one of my bikes, this time my K1200S … [...]