Motorcycle Rides, Coffee Stops & the Sober-Curious Life
Motorcycle Rides, Coffee Stops & the Sober-Curious Life
St Albans to Hitchin took just over half an hour on the bike, sixteen miles that felt easy on roads that were new to me. Sunny, around 25°C, windy roads, old churches, and big open countryside the whole way, through…
Tractors, horses, the odd peacock, that’s what the back road from Harpenden to Hatfield offers, and it’s exactly the kind of ride the Enfield’s built for. Rolling countryside the whole way, the kind of route where you’re happy to slow…
One level down at King’s Cross, Gramos Coffee Bar has been quietly building a following for ten years, an independent, single-origin coffee company that roasts its own beans on-site. Rated 4.9 stars on Google, and routinely described by regulars as…
I rode down to London on a proper scorcher, 29 degrees by the time I hit the city. Scenic plotted the route out of Harpenden, through St Albans, Chipping Barnet, and Edgware, avoiding the motorway the whole way down into…
Motorcycle parking in a city centre shouldn’t be an afterthought, it should just work, the same as it does for any other vehicle. St Albans actually gets this right, and it’s worth knowing exactly how: dedicated motorcycle bays tucked down…
Peterborough Cathedral was quiet under a mild, cloudy sky as I set off at 10am, 17 degrees on the dial and Scenic loaded up for its first real test. One day into a free two-week trial, and genuinely no idea…
The alarm goes off at 4am, and there’s no negotiating with it anymore. No sluggish crawl out from under a hangover, no bargaining for another fifteen minutes under the pretence of just checking the weather. I’d watched England grind out…
Some rides are about the road. Others are really about where the road stops. Church Farm Café, tucked into Aldbury, is one of those second kinds of rides: under 20 miles from St Albans, and worth every one of the…
