Motorbikes
TRF The Trail Riders Fellowship exists to protect and improve access rights to green lanes around the country. Local groups also organise group rides and events.
The Hampshire branch of the TRF meets at Southampton and District Motorcycle Club headquarters in Eastleigh at 20:00 on the third Thursday of the month.
Contact Lee Wildsmith on 02380 611110 or see www.southern-trf.org.uk
Trail Bike Enduro Club These are the guys to see if you want to try a bit of competition on your trail bike.
Honda Motor Co Fact Book This section of the Japanese Honda site has archive material on loads of models from their past. A lot of it is in Japanese but the spec sheets and pictures are useful.
Serow Pages Loads of technical info on the Yamaha Serow.
Motorcycle Loans Finance Co Loans for all for motorcycle purchase and stock lists from dealers around the country.
VERNON MOTORCYCLES
Unit 6, RMC House
Fitzherbert Road
Farlington
Hampshire PO6 1RU
02392 380050
These guys have good experience of TTR250s and some other imported bikes and happily work on them til the cows come home.
R.D. Motorcycles Rob breaks bikes for spares and also has some complete bikes for sale. See his website or call him on 0797 100 4631.
John Oldfield John Oldfield specialises in classic Honda Spares but is also very good at getting hold of parts for imports. Call him on 02380 630326.
Riders Motorcycles
(Yeovil)
A far bigger importing operation than myself, they keep large stocks of spares for many popular imports.
TTR250 Site TTR250 owner's site with loads of info and pics.
Partspartners Bit of an unknown so far but the site looks like it may be useful for tracking down any hard to find parts. Please let me know if I'm right or wrong.
Dualsport UK Trail riding info site.
Bikez.com Search here for pictures and specs of just about any model ever to have been produced anywhere in significant quantities !
Dirty Bits South of England event reports and DR250RS info.
Enduro South West South west of England event reports, regs for events nationwide.
Tough Buzzard Trail Rides This company offers guided trail rides in sunny North Wales.
Call them on 01824 750659.
Bowerland Farmhouse Very friendly B&B or self catering accommodation on the northwest edge of Dartmoor, just less than a mile from the A30.
Solent Supermotos A new club set up on the south coast for anyone into the supermoto scene.
Takeshi's Simple site ! Some pictures of Japanese bikes on home turf. Note the caption for the eighth pic (CBR250), the author makes his priorities quite clear !!!!
TTR pics A happy owner getting muddy.
More TTR pics Another happy owner getting his kids muddy.
Horizons Unlimited Adventure travel reports.
NBS Motor Russian motorcycle magazine site.
Storm Riders Singapore based riders club with several off road reports to be found. Beware the dodgy translations !
Bicycles
New FORCe New Forest Off Road Cyclists, who organise rides for all abilities and occasional trips away.
On One Manufacturer of awfully fine bike frames in both steel and titanium
Muddy Fox The official Muddy Fox site with full details of their product range.
Onza Trials bicycle manufacturer.
DDG Frame manufacturer best known for their 'Shooter' dual slalom bike.
And now for something completely different
Where is the sun now ? This is an Excel file I put together whilst rather bored in a previous existance. Tell it the latitude of your current location and it will show you how high the sun will be at that moment and how its height above the horizon varies throughout the year.

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