1 Running Out Of Road Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:02 pm
markysimon
active member
I launched and edited Bike magazine in Britain in 1971, and suitably if naively emboldened, I launched and edited Which Bike? five years later, and then MotorCycle International in 1984. Throughout those years and then on until well, now, in various other initially unsuspecting journals, I scribbled a monthly column under the titles of Running Out Of Road and later, Lore. These were generally intended as humorous, often it transpired, controversial and occasionally deeply critical of the industry and political status quo as it affected 'biking.
In the 1980s two compilations of my columns were published in book form and since things went full circle and I began writing again for Bike in 2013, I've received a small and unsteady trickle of emails from riders of a certain age who grew up with and fondly (?) recalled Running Out Of Road, so I recently re-launched, or am rather re-published many of those columns, together with contemporary comments, plus the odd brand new one. Some of them related to my 30-odd years of K75S ownership – I'm currently on my second – so if you've a few minutes to spare once or twice a week and fancy a bit of nostalgia, a wry laugh or the risk of irritation, do please log onto and follow my blog at: www.runningoutofroad.uk
And thanks for your indulgence thus far
In the 1980s two compilations of my columns were published in book form and since things went full circle and I began writing again for Bike in 2013, I've received a small and unsteady trickle of emails from riders of a certain age who grew up with and fondly (?) recalled Running Out Of Road, so I recently re-launched, or am rather re-published many of those columns, together with contemporary comments, plus the odd brand new one. Some of them related to my 30-odd years of K75S ownership – I'm currently on my second – so if you've a few minutes to spare once or twice a week and fancy a bit of nostalgia, a wry laugh or the risk of irritation, do please log onto and follow my blog at: www.runningoutofroad.uk
And thanks for your indulgence thus far