YTC Blog

Bit the bullet, bought the flight tickets. Setpember 8th 2010 is the day we fly out to Toronto to start our 3 Americas trip. Now we just need to get the panniers made for Jean's bike, buy lots of stuff to live off, sort out paper work so we can get t… more »

Not a major change, just decided that my XJR was not the right bike for the trip. uses lots of fuel, tyres expensive and if I "ding" a wheel (alloy) I'm stuffed. Dallied with the idea of an XT66Z (Tenere), had a ride of a mates and really liked it. The… more »

My old XJ900F reached a milestone today, 100,000 miles.     She is a 1994 "J" reg, I've had her since 1997 with 11,500 miles. She has never let me down.     And then she rolled over.... just like new again.       I can now put h… more »

Spent a few hours with Vern (Project VND)  trying to work out how, where and what size panniers to stick on the bike. There was a lot of hmmming and arhhhing. Much measuring, re-measuring, head scratching and discussion. Finaly a decision was made, he… more »

While riding my Pegaso last month I heard a vibration, so I crawled over the bike and noticed the radiatior was loose. On closer insepction the 2 top rivets were missing. I popped into Pitstop and Paul had a look, then started to fix it by widening the h… more »