Category Rides

I’m staying around four miles outside Rhodes Town, so today’s transport is a rented 80cc scooter. Engine size, I’ve learned, matters little on these bumpy roads and it’s easy to settle into the freedom the small bike gives you. I…

Twenty miles from St Albans to Letchworth Garden City, via Harpenden, Kimpton, and Whitwell, past Hitchin. I picked the early slot on purpose. This is shaping up to be our fifth heatwave of the year. At twenty-one degrees and just…

Getting from St Albans to the coffee shop in Hitchin took just over half an hour on the bike. It was sixteen easy miles on roads that were new to me. Sunny, around 25°C, windy roads, old churches, and big…

Tractors, horses, the odd peacock, that’s what the back road from Harpenden to Hatfield offers. It’s exactly the kind of ride the Enfield’s built for. I was heading for Sustain Coffee Co in Hatfield. Rolling countryside the whole way, the…

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. It avoided the motorway the whole way down…

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. It’s worth knowing exactly how: dedicated motorcycle bays tucked down side…