Riding group in Kenya.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-49036017

Nothing needs to be said except "where is your helmet sir?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgH6...cMgvyrq7o5AYlg

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/storie...omen-stay-safe

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Hear the challenge, learn the lesson, pay the cost.

A recent BBC report on the missing traveller Esther Dingley:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-57818035

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You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey's end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.

It looks like the UK are set to ban petrol engined motorbikes from 2035.

https://www.ukclubsport.com/uk-gov-confirms-ban-on-new-petrol-motorcycle-sales-from-2035/?fbclid=IwAR2XrJfgKdRDgDG7Th8vRnp-S_2qQsKGXHqm-b12mwtzxuDyHV5eYmt2D2Y

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You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey's end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.

The rumanian motorbike adventurer, v-logger and avid bike reviewer Cristian Predoi has died in a bike accident….
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2611...8401456015423/

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In the end everything will be fine. If its not fine its not the end....

It’s not every day that you come across a temple to a Royal Enfield Bullet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59036542

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You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey's end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.

Not much of a travel bike if you wake up every morning and you're back where you started

I'll leave it to someone else to say their bike has been like that for years ...

Police are after some support because they have nothing to go on.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17...enheim-palace/

Not news, but a link to some good photos of wildlife:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49690173

Motorcycles helping to save lives in Kenya

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/stories-...-on-two-wheels

I haven’t seen this referenced anywhere else so have a look at the article about Charlie Boorman and Ewan McGregor’s latest jaunt:

https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/long-way-up-tv-/

Now, whilst this isn’t strictly a travelling by motorbike article but specifically a Harley article there is an interesting aspect that does affect us - that of the changing demographics of motorcyclists in the west mainly. The reason for the fall in sales of Harley has been put down, in part, to younger people not taking up riding and older people, well, getting older.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/...er/4908382002/

This is true across all brands and looking at the price of bikes from the major companies I can see that continuing as the prices are close to prohibitively expensive for younger riders. My gut feeling is that the younger riders aren’t getting involved for other reasons as well including the pay back time for investment in training - we insist that they spend ages getting trained but are the results worth it for them, will they get quicker gratification from other pastimes?

This is not a uniquely motorcycle situation, I am a scuba diver and there are fewer young people getting involved and going though the training. As a member of dive club I can see that we have taken great steps to attract younger people into the sport and these have paid off and we now have a far younger demographic than we did, say, ten years ago. As an organised sport we have also made advances nationally through the British Sub Aqua Club and there are now more young people entering than there were some years ago - but these advances were made by an organisation in a reasonably structured manner. Sadly I don’t know of an equivalent motorcycle organisation that can do the same sort of thing for motorcycling - perhaps I am overly pessimistic - I would be very happy to be proven wrong.

No peer reviewed research just my observations as an all year round biker in the uk.
The fastest growing bike style sector must be the adventure section. The touring section remains buoyant. Sports bikes and cruisers are not as prevalent as they were.
Up until about 10 years ago the amount of bikes queuing for a ferry were half a dozen, then things changed, now there could be over a hundred bikes on a ferry heading for Spain.
Despite what people write on social media, it seems to me, that the journey has become more important than the bike and the journey has become, at the least a tour, if not a major trip. Young people are spending money on trips rather than bikes and cruisers are just not practical.
Secondly image is a huge factor in riding a motorcycle and your typical HA Harley rider is just not fashionable. Anyone that may have been swayed by that image in the past is now a hipster - there are loads of young people at hipster style rallies.

Looks to me like Harley have been relying on past glories and took their eye off the ball - they could have jumped on the back of the hipster movement and sold a load of bikes - look at BMW and Triumph.