Thursday 28 January 2010 at 9:57 pm
Up until last Saturday, I hadn't ridden a bike since some time in mid-December. Despite the plethora of machines in the garage, I've ended up using the van to commute in for a month or so - which has given me plenty of time stuck in traffic to contemplate how much I'd rather be on the bike.
This was taken on Saturday afternoon a couple of hours and about 40 miles after buying the black bike in the picture. It's a 2009 Yamaha XT660Z Ténéré. The white one in the foreground is my mate Tom's 2008 model, which he bought new this time last year, and has been having all sorts of fun on, some of which you can find
here.
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Monday 25 January 2010 at 9:35 pm
For the next (and long overdue) fleet update, I'm going to jump from the first and smallest capacity bike to what was, until the start of December, the most recent arrival at wildchildHQ, and remains the largest capacity bike in the garage - the 1993 Suzuki DR800S "DR BIG".
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Friday 01 January 2010 at 7:44 pm
So that was 2009, and this is 2010, and with its arrival comes the customary temptation to reminisce over the things which have happened during the last lap of the little blue-green ball around the big yellow ball, and make grandiose plans to pass the time during the next lap.
This year, I've given in to this temptation, of which more below, but before that please allow me to wish you all the best for 2010.
(photo by Dave Haines)
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