Hanne

Originally Posted by Hanne

It's a chicken-or-the-egg scenario: to pillion or to ride first?
I reckon pillion. To find out why and what my reasoning has to do with winter root vegetables, check out the KiwiRider ezine...

Originally Posted by Hanne

When you ride your bike everywhere you sometimes miss out on the simple pleasures that car drivers take for granted...

This is my account of what it's like to 'taste the other side'

Originally Posted by Hanne

A broken down street magic got me thinking the other day. What sorts of stories do you have about bikers helping bikers?

Originally Posted by Hanne

When feisty wee starlets get hungry, bad things happen to motorcycles... Read the full story here on the KR zine

Originally Posted by Hanne

Do you ever get the feeling that your braking muscles are not quite up to par? Never fear, these tips from a German motorcycling magazine may well change your life forever...

Originally Posted by Hanne

Today my bike is sitting in the garage, very smug. Covered in mud splatters, she is not exactly elegant. That doesn’t matter because after Sunday’s gravel adventure ride she feels like a real bike and is wearing the grime like a badge, skiting to the neighbouring fxr about her countryside antics. The fact that Poppy the AX100 is dirtier than the DR650 has nothing to do with her proximity to the ground and everything to do with her intrepid nature, according to the yarns she spins. This afternoon

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Originally Posted by Hanne

To most people, ‘Germany’ plus ‘bikes’ equals ‘BMW’, no questions asked. While BMW is currently the only motorcycle manufacturer in Germany, this has not always been the case. Back in the heyday of German motorcycle production during the 1920s there were 260 independent brands being made in the country. A visit to the the ‘Zweirad Museum’ in Werder, Germany provided me with the opportunity to see some of these machines first hand and to trace the history of German engineering back to its roots.

Originally Posted by Hanne

I recently visited a motorcycle museum in Stockholm where the bikes were presented as sculptural works... very interesting place, read more here on the KiwiRider zine.