T55: Blog

PLANET KNOX:

Everything about Knox exudes excellence. From their products, to navigating the website, and journeying onwards with experiences of customer services, I have been impressed. To me they seem to be the Barbour of the biking world - combining class, style, sophistication and functionality...but with badass protection.

Welcome...to Planet Knox!

I recently became a very proud inhabitant of this relatively recently terraformed celestial body, when I purchased an extraordinary, for me, number of clothing items in one day from a single shop. If helmets, boots and trousers were on offer I'd have been clad head to toe in all things Knox by the time I left their headquarters (they now do stock jeans - I might return).

My journey there had been a long one.......(to carry on reading, activate the PDF below)

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HARLEY DAVIDSON TOUR:

I was stood beside the beast I'd hired for a 4 day motorbike cruise up and down the Californian coast. My particular Harley Davidson looked considerably less beastly, beside it's truly brutish looking brothers, than it had done as a single photo with no background perspective on the www.eaglerider.com website. My heart was pounding as we walked along a line of parked, chrome clad and gleaming, motorcycles - leather tassels dangling and swaying in the breeze. There must have been about 20 such monsters awaiting eager mid-life crisis cruisers. Mine looked nothing like these. I'd chosen the smallest machine available. Not just because I'd only recently passed my riders licence (less than 500 miles of tarmac behind me), never driven or ridden on the 'wrong' side of the road and in a recovery period post shoulder surgery. No. I chose the 883 Sportster because it was the only bike I could afford........(to carry on reading, activate the PDF below)

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