Category Archives: Street Riding Years

Book about despatching in the 80s

Himalayan: Out of the Western Sahara

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Chris S

Himalayan Index Page With back up from Mark in a 4×4 sat alongside Colin on a Nikon, we set off for the 1100-km ride from Assa through the Western Saharan interior to Dakhla via Smara and the Digtree (left), a … Continue reading →

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Bonneville ’78

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Chris S

An illustrated and lightly massaged excerpt from The Street Riding Years View the 1978 Gallery Triumph Motorcycles are doing all right, particularly with the parallel twins on which the company made its name. But forty years ago success wasn’t a … Continue reading →

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Reviews – The Street Riding Years

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Chris S

Buy Kindle on amazon • Buy paperback on amazon Recent mentions in Classic Motorcycle Mechanics and Classic Bike magazines March 23 – Amazon review I was pleased to see someone as young as 21 could get the book too. … Continue reading →

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A Classic Weekend

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Chris S

Finally got myself to the Classic Bike Show in Stafford after years of thinking about it. I never realised what a huge event it was. I was inside flogging books but took could not resist taking off on wanders during the … Continue reading →

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‘Everyone remembers their first bike’

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Chris S

So says the back cover of The Street Riding Years, my memoir which has been the top seller on Amazon Kindle > Motorcycles > History for a few months now. An unexpected benefit of the book’s popularity has been people I … Continue reading →

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