Helmet Reviews & Riding Gear Expertise
Here’s a scene that plays out somewhere on British roads roughly every working day: a motorcyclist gets cut up at a roundabout, wobbles, recovers — and has absolutely nothing to show for it when they file an insurance claim. No witness. No CCTV angle that captures the plate. Just their word against a driver who … Read more
Picture the scene: you’re filtering through slow-moving traffic on the M25, rain hammering your visor, and your phone mount — bolted to the handlebar at a jaunty angle — decides this is an excellent moment to show a rerouting notification in a font approximately the size of a rice grain. You glance down for what … Read more
There’s a moment every motorcyclist knows — that split second when you’re filtering through slow traffic on the A406, you want to check your speed, your sat-nav is somewhere behind your right knee, and both your hands are very much occupied with not dying. It’s an awkward little juggle that has defined motorcycle riding for … Read more
Picture this: you’re carving through the Cotswolds on a damp Tuesday morning — which, let’s be honest, is most Tuesday mornings in Britain — and without glancing down at your handlebars, without fumbling with a phone mounted to your dash, you already know your speed, the next turning, and that there’s a speed camera 400 … Read more
There’s a moment every motorcyclist knows. You’re filtering through Oxford Street traffic, rain just starting to smear your visor, and you desperately need the next turn — but your phone is mounted somewhere your neck can’t quite reach at a sensible angle. You glance down for a fraction of a second. That fraction is exactly … Read more
Britain is a glorious country for cycling. It is also, let’s be honest, frequently dark, damp, and possessed of motorists who are sometimes paying considerably more attention to their podcast than to the cyclist in front of them. That’s the reality of riding on UK roads — whether you’re threading through central London traffic at … Read more
There’s a particular kind of British morning that puts everything into perspective: overcast, drizzly, the sky the precise colour of a damp flannel, and every car on the A-road wearing that glazed, distracted expression that makes a motorcyclist’s heart sink. In conditions like these — which is to say, in conditions that describe roughly two-thirds … Read more
Let’s start with a number that should make every British rider sit up straight: 340 motorcyclists were killed on UK roads in 2024 — an 8% jump from the year before. Motorcycles make up roughly 1% of traffic, yet account for around 21% of all road fatalities. You can read the full Department for Transport … Read more
Picture this: you’re filtering through slow-moving rush-hour traffic on the A406, rain sheeting down, dusk turning everything a lovely shade of grey soup. The car behind you is driven by someone who’s got one eye on their sat-nav and the other on the rear-view mirror. You brake. They don’t notice — at least, not quickly … Read more
Riding through the perpetual drizzle of a Manchester evening or navigating the M25 during those depressingly early winter sunsets, every British motorcyclist knows the visceral fear of being invisible to drivers. In 2024, the UK recorded 340 motorcycle fatalities, with “failed to look properly” cited as the primary contributory factor in countless collisions. When you’re … Read more