
Gary Dick
Biker, Dad, husband and mechanic.

Just want to share my experiences and learning as I find out what I am doing right and wrong. Love motorcycles and touring. Hoping to do a lot more trips to a lot more places. New content every Sunday
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LATEST STORIES
- A little update.Sorry been a lack of updates, the truth is, I haven’t had time to get on the bike and now every bike in the garage needs to be MOT’d. the little classic Suzuki is at my uncles for storage the now so no two wheels the now. This made me think, I love the bike…More
- Mayhem in MatlockI am in a group on Facebook called Honda Deauville NT650/700v UK group. The groups admin Peter and Markie organised to have a meet up down in Matlock, they had one in 2022 but unfortunately I ended up in hospital due to stomach problems so had to miss it with being stuck in a hospital…More
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- A Cold Damp day in April.Ping ping ping, the group chat is pinging like mad, it’s all the baw bags on whats app that are trying to figure something up for a run, we had agreed at our last meal we had together that we were going to go a run on the last weekend of The month, this was…More
- Itchy Time!!No I don’t mean that itchy time where you need go see the doctor for some antibiotics because of the weekend before, I mean the time where all you can think about is riding and prep, where you are driving to work looking at the road saying its perfect day to wrap up and get…More
- Sorry folks!!!!Sorry folks, I have been busy lately and not had much of a chance to blog, I do have a couple I have typed up but still to publish, some involving electric motorcycle and my thoughts of them, my plans for this years motorcycle trips, the classic bike club I am involved in which I…More
- A little update.Sorry folks not posted for the last 2 weeks due to being a tad busy lately. If you read my race past story you would see that at the bottom, I was on a track day in a mini cooper S that I have been working on. I spent most of that weekend up at…More
- Racing.The good, the bad and the very ugly This post is going to be an extremely hard one to write. My racing life or in another way my racing addiction can from an early age, and it is hard to pinpoint when I first became hooked. I would say when I was young, I…More
- Racing blog coming soon.
- La Honda DeauvilleDuring lock down I had ignited my love for motorcycles again, to the point I bought a 2002 Honda Deauville nt650v for £200, it was a nonrunner and I thought I could either get it running and sell or keep for myself or strip it and sell the parts that were ok if it was…More
- The Old A100This one will be a short but sweet one, but it is a bike that is very close to my heart and is part of the family. It all starts back before I was born, when my mum and dad were dating, he went to go and see my mum at my grandparent’s house and…More
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- Falkirk to Cornwall, I loved the trip. Wife never.The reason I bought my Pan. Back in October 2021 we decided that for the October break we would take a little trip down south for what we hoped was going to be better weather. We found a static caravan down in Newquay cheap as the school holidays were not on. A little background to…More
- Why motorcycles?Big speel here but give it a chance. Why motorcycles? My love for motorcycles started at an early age, my first memory of it was my dad riding his Suzuki A100 round a car park at the old library, if I can remember he was showing one of my uncles who was doing there CBT…More
- Sons first pillion ride!Father’s Day and my son had decided he wanted to spend the day with me, unfortunately I had made tops up for a British superbikes support series team and had to drop them off at Knockhill but luckily my son thought it would be a good time spend watching the racing with is my favourite…More
- Wild camping in September in Scotland.On the last weekend of September a group of us went a run with a bit of wild camping, I set off met the rest of the group at Stirling services. We rid to Gargunnock, back down to Balloch, up towards Tarbet on to the A83, by the rest and be thankful to butter bridge…More
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