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YET ANOTHER EXCITING MOTO ADVENTURE NIGHT!!
31st Oct
Alwyne Castle Pub
83 St Paul's Rd London N1 2LY
020 7359 7351
7pm onwards
CLICK going on our facebook page to reserve your place - https://www.facebook.com/events/699141900113934/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
or
email me at [email protected]
MOTO ADVENTURE NIGHTS
Present PADDY TYSON
Paddy will be giving a talk on his Trans Americas travels and recently Tibet. Entertaining, engaging, informative, hilarious, brilliant are a few adjectives used for Paddy himself and his talks! No doubt, it’ll be a brilliant night!!
Also, as this Moto Adventure Night falls on Halloween, we encourage you to wear your best Halloween costume/ favourite cheeky t-shirt/ naughtiest biker bandana. As usual we will have the “after party” which is infamous for getting you more pissed than you intended to!
Session 1 - The Americas
Intro about the book based on the Americas ride….blatantly plagiarised from Paddy’s website – www.paddytyson.com
The Hunt For Puerto del Faglioli - A Motorcycle Adventure In Search Of The Improbable “It’s 2008. The world enters economic meltdown. A global flu pandemic looms. An historical US presidential election is taking place and, somewhere in the Americas, a lone Irishman is coaxing his temperamental Italian motorcycle through another electrical breakdown…
Interspersed with anecdote, social observation and liberal doses of humour, this book follows writer and seasoned overland traveller Paddy Tyson, through his battle with bureaucracy, bike breaking road surfaces, illness, accident, gun toting police and a pasty Celtic complexion remarkably unsuited to the Central American sun.
Session 2- Tibet
Feature extract: Tibet (issue 6) – Overland Magazine
On the descent from Lalung La (5,050m) I could barely hold the throttle open. My arms and legs were wracked with pins and needles… Beneath me the little 500 Enfield seemed absolutely unaffected. It plodded along, its EFI system metering the fuel as best it could to compensate for the lack of oxygen, feeding the simple single cylinder engine which continued to perform mile after mile. Unlike me.
I looked at my hands but they just weren’t mine. Like my feet on the footpegs, I couldn’t make them do as I asked and with sweeping switchbacks turning me alternately towards and away from a vicious headwind, gravity was in charge until we hit the valley floor.
I hit it harder than most, tumbling off the bike and lying face down in the dirt of the desert, wretching pathetically and gasping for air. It certainly wasn’t my finest moment and much as I wanted to, I just couldn’t formulate a simple request for water. I could see all the words in my head, but was incapable of speech… My brain just wasn’t working. I wanted to get up and shout ‘I’m an adventurer dammit! I’m hardcore!’ but just lay there, face down and helpless, imagining the indignity of dying by the roadside in a helmet and full riding gear, without having had the decency to crash.
31st Oct
Alwyne Castle Pub
83 St Paul's Rd London N1 2LY
020 7359 7351
7pm onwards
CLICK going on our facebook page to reserve your place - https://www.facebook.com/events/699141900113934/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
or
email me at [email protected]
MOTO ADVENTURE NIGHTS
Present PADDY TYSON
Paddy will be giving a talk on his Trans Americas travels and recently Tibet. Entertaining, engaging, informative, hilarious, brilliant are a few adjectives used for Paddy himself and his talks! No doubt, it’ll be a brilliant night!!
Also, as this Moto Adventure Night falls on Halloween, we encourage you to wear your best Halloween costume/ favourite cheeky t-shirt/ naughtiest biker bandana. As usual we will have the “after party” which is infamous for getting you more pissed than you intended to!
Session 1 - The Americas
Intro about the book based on the Americas ride….blatantly plagiarised from Paddy’s website – www.paddytyson.com
The Hunt For Puerto del Faglioli - A Motorcycle Adventure In Search Of The Improbable “It’s 2008. The world enters economic meltdown. A global flu pandemic looms. An historical US presidential election is taking place and, somewhere in the Americas, a lone Irishman is coaxing his temperamental Italian motorcycle through another electrical breakdown…
Interspersed with anecdote, social observation and liberal doses of humour, this book follows writer and seasoned overland traveller Paddy Tyson, through his battle with bureaucracy, bike breaking road surfaces, illness, accident, gun toting police and a pasty Celtic complexion remarkably unsuited to the Central American sun.
Session 2- Tibet
Feature extract: Tibet (issue 6) – Overland Magazine
On the descent from Lalung La (5,050m) I could barely hold the throttle open. My arms and legs were wracked with pins and needles… Beneath me the little 500 Enfield seemed absolutely unaffected. It plodded along, its EFI system metering the fuel as best it could to compensate for the lack of oxygen, feeding the simple single cylinder engine which continued to perform mile after mile. Unlike me.
I looked at my hands but they just weren’t mine. Like my feet on the footpegs, I couldn’t make them do as I asked and with sweeping switchbacks turning me alternately towards and away from a vicious headwind, gravity was in charge until we hit the valley floor.
I hit it harder than most, tumbling off the bike and lying face down in the dirt of the desert, wretching pathetically and gasping for air. It certainly wasn’t my finest moment and much as I wanted to, I just couldn’t formulate a simple request for water. I could see all the words in my head, but was incapable of speech… My brain just wasn’t working. I wanted to get up and shout ‘I’m an adventurer dammit! I’m hardcore!’ but just lay there, face down and helpless, imagining the indignity of dying by the roadside in a helmet and full riding gear, without having had the decency to crash.
