John Rushworth's hobby of motorcycles

I've been motorcycling for 35 plus years. I've dabbled and ridden in trials, enduro, trail, rally and road. My highlights have been a silver in the SSDT, a 14th in the Cambrian rally against much larger bikes - and coming joint equal fastest out of 800 folks at the final of the Chas Mortimer road race school at Donington park, where along with friends I hatched the Gilera Network.

I spent some wonderful times in California riding with the then No 10 in the world and US trials champion. I have written technical and adventure articles for Trail Bike and Enduro (TBM) magazine. Working for the Clews family at CCM was great fun. I also developed a patent for an Aprilia trials bike which was tested by a world enduro champion. He didn't want to get back on his factory bike! Recent fun has been a re-visit to Baja in Mexico, the Atlas and Sahara in Morocco along with a Trans Spain and Portugal off road trip which commenced in Andorra.

I've had about 45 motorcycles. I started the RIDES.Org.UK list some years ago but I now point the URL at the wonderful work and charity, that has come about from my friend Simon Milward's ride. He died on the last leg of his 5 year round the world trip, before I could ride down to Africa to meet him on my overland TTR. Here are a few links to Simon's work and charity along with a few of my own trips and more recent motorcycles.