Hey Mate

Another review for you. Helge is probably the most famous bike adventurer of modern times, he only took ten years to complete his round the world trip.The pic of the Africa Twin bike in Portugal. Stick it in with a title something like….” Girls, I only go adventuring to exotic countries on my bike for the girls! Fuck the culture I say!”…

That could almost be a pun there…Fuck the culture…that's well funny.

A coffee table book filled with the most wonderful photography of Helge's ten year journey around the world.

Yes, he really did take ten years to see the world on a BMW R80 GS.

Unlike a lot of modern bike travelers he did not just ride through other peoples countries with nothing more than a quick hello. He stopped and worked with them, lived with them, gained an insight into how they lived.

As I understand it, he was the first person with a motorcycle to cross the Darien Gap in the jungle around Panama. This fact is recorded in the Road Knights (the local USA Marine detachment bike club) visitor’s book.

You want adversity…Helge lived it, weeks of rain, days of mud, snow, desert heat, few bikers could really put up with the trials that this man suffered in his ten-year odyssey.

He rode in places some of us have never heard of.

This is the kind of adventure that all motorcyclists dream of doing, but few ever will. As a book of great photos and insightful observations this is a must for armchair adventurers and riders who have that ” Big Dream Ride”.

Highly recommended, available from www.amazon.com it's not cheap, but you pay for what you get.

Helge now runs bikers tours in different parts of the world, so you can have the adventure without the hardship if you are keen to try adventure biking yourself

Absolutely nothing to do with Mobikes but…Good old-fashioned adventure tales.

I found this site a while ago, thought I'd share it with you guys.www.blackmask.comOver 18,000 free to read online books and stories.Many of the old classics like Alexander Dumas and Rafeal Sabatini are archived. That's The Three Musketeers and Captain Blood.

But also the great pulp tales of the 30's and 40's like Robert E Howard's Conan and Edgar Rice Burroughs John Carter of Mars and Tarzan. Doc Savage is also there. Modern authors also write many stories as well. Every genre you can think of, Action, Adventure, Suspense, Horror, Detective, Romance, Children’s novels.

I could spend months on this site. And most of the stories can be saved to Microsoft word if you copy from Black mask and paste to word, and then save in a file on your PC.

Great way to pass those winter months.Also at www.baen.com are free sci-fi and fantasy books by such well-known authors as David Drake (Hammers Slammers) and other noted writers.

This is like being a kid a candy shop to me.

Enjoy.

–Jaq.

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That’s Glenn Priddle, from Australia in black, who is now the Bikernet music correspondent. He’ll bring you hot reviews of new and old CDs, blues and rock from time to time. Between Glenn and I we will attempt to review new DVDs of biker related show, if we can stay awake through them. Hang on. –Bandit

MUSIC, MOVIE AND DVD REVIEWS COMING TO BIKERNET–Here's a taste of thing to come form the Bikernet staff, including Glenn Priddle from Australia.

” Mike Morgan and The Crawl”.
Raw & Ready.
Black Top Records.

“Mike Morgan” was born near Dallas Texas in 1959, started playing the guitar in early years, but wasn't until 1985 when he got turned on to Steve Ray Vaughan's album ” Texas Flood” that he started taking his guitar playing seriously.

Shortly after meeting a couple of experienced musicians, namely, top vocalist Darrel Nulisch.The band ” Mike Morgan and The Crawl” were formed and they quickly made a name for themselves as one of the best contempory blues bands in Texas. Nulisch left the band and was replaced by “Lee Mc Bee”, a blues veteran known for his gravely voice and excellent harmonica playing.

The band overwhelmed audiences while playing all the major Blues and Jazz Festivals. It was at one of these concerts that Hammond Scott owner of Black Top Records saw the band and immediately signed them to his label.The band toured national and internationally promoting their new album, “Raw and Ready”. The band to this day are still heavily in demand and have several top albums to their credit.

I guarantee you this CD will get you rockin and at the different times on certain tracks, will bring you back down to a very relaxed state while you enjoy a beer or bourbon. Band leader “Mike Morgan” delivers great guitar solos, and together with “Lee Mc Bee”, his unique voice plus his dynamic harmonica playing, soon has you realizing what a great team they are, and not forgetting the rest of the band to bring this whole package together delivering a cross section of “Blues and R&B” that leave you wanting more.

–Glenn Priddle

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