Ross' Blog Archives - The Bike Shed

Yamaha XSR700 – Plastic Surgery

I love the Yamaha XSR700, but it’s not a particularly attractive motorcycle in standard form. It looks like Quasimodo and Barbara… »

Being cooped-up in a cramped metropolis while seemingly the rest of the world, according to Instagram at least, ride their motorcycles… »

I’ve been doing more and more greenlane and adventure riding recently, mostly in a 15-year-old Hein Gericke jacket (the trousers stopped… »

I hadn’t even mastered a balance bike in 1981. In fact back then I couldn’t even evacuate my own bowels properly… »

I haven’t had a new helmet in a little while but seeing as Bell are supporting the Bike Shed show this… »

Remember that smug and satisfying feeling you got when you handed in your schoolwork early? Nope, me neither. But I just… »

I’ve been following flat track in the USA for decades, perhaps not really closely at first but in the last few… »

I won my first ever flat track heat, and my first race meeting. And that was the beginning of the end… »

Last weekend we hosted one of our favourite annual events – the Dirt Track Riders Association flat track season launch party…. »

For me 2018 was the year where I finally stopped talking about off-roading and started doing more of it. My soul… »

The revival of the scrambler as a style, a genre even, has brought with it some ambiguity as to what scrambling… »

No wonder my case nearly blew the scales at the BA check-in, there’s a lot of gear to review here. Thankfully… »