Adventures
What’s It Really Like? Have I Made A Huge Mistake? | Elizabeth The Bobber 💞 Not A Test Ride
There is a new member of the XploraLora family. Her name is Elizabeth, although Liza Nova will probably appear from time to time as well. 💞 She’s a Benda Napoleon Bob 500, she’s very different from anything I’ve owned for a long time, and buying her wasn’t quite as straightforward a decision as simply deciding […]
What Is XploraLora? | It’s Not Just About Motorcycles
If you’ve arrived here after watching one of my videos of Lora, my ZX-9R, disappearing along a road through the Scottish countryside, you could quite reasonably assume XploraLora is a motorcycle channel. It isn’t really. There are certainly going to be plenty of motorcycles involved, because I love them and Lora 💞 is a very important […]
Lora ZX-9R 💞 | Ah, You Know What I’ve Done? | Just A Wee Sunday Ride
This wasn’t going to be a big adventure. Just a wee Sunday ride out on Lora 💞 to give her a run, keep her battery okay and let you know that we’re both still here. I’d also fitted some new dog bones and wanted to make sure everything was all right, so that gave me […]
Where Am I Even Meant To Be? | Liza MTB 💞 | What Is Going On Today?
I went out for what was supposed to be a nice, short, relaxing Saturday afternoon ride. I was still a wee bit worn out from the 40-mile Dungeon Hills adventure, so there would be no enormous distances, no ridiculous expedition and definitely no knackering myself out again. That was the plan anyway.
This Is Why I Make Videos | Liza MTB 💞 | Will My Battery Last?
There are parts of Galloway I’ve looked at from afar for years and wondered what they were actually like when you got right into them. The Dungeon Hills were one of those places. I’d seen the photographs, studied the maps and looked across towards them from other adventures, but I’d never really had the means […]
There MUST Be A Way Through…🙄🌚 | MTB Liza 💞 | Can I Cycle To Where I Want To Be?
There was somewhere in Galloway Forest Park I wanted to get to with Liza, and looking at the map I was fairly convinced there must be a way through from the Loch Doon side. I knew I could come in from Glen Trool, but I didn’t want to do it that way. I wanted to […]
Will My DIY eMTB Beat The Hills? | Can I Reclaim Freedom With Liza My Mountain Bike 💞
I used to hike here, there and everywhere. Fifteen or twenty miles in a day wasn’t unusual and I loved being able to disappear into the hills for hours at a time. Then I got ill and it pretty much destroyed me for months. Even now I can’t hike the distances I used to because […]
Small Frame + Big Battery: The Impossible Carrera Fury Build | Furious Electrification | MTB Liza 💞
I wasn’t trying to build a 50 mph e-bike, stick a thousand watts through a mountain bike or spend five grand creating some sort of electric missile. I’ve already got Lora if I want to go fast. What I wanted from Liza was almost the complete opposite. I wanted a tractor. Something that would happily daunder […]
I’ve Been Trying To Get This View For 3 Years… | ZX-9R Lora 💞
There is a particular view in Galloway I’ve been trying to get closer to for about three years. I’ve seen it plenty of times from a distance, but I’d never managed to find somewhere that gave me the view I actually wanted. Then, while looking at the map, I noticed a little forest trail that […]
Can I Finally Finish This Time? | ZX-9R Lora 💞 | A Ghost From A Past Journey
Last year, Lora and I set out on a journey that we never managed to complete. There was somewhere in Galloway I wanted to reach, but for one reason or another it didn’t happen and the destination ended up sitting on my unfinished list for almost a year. I don’t particularly like unfinished lists.
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