Staff Blog: You Can't Beat a Bit of Bike Therapy

Updated: 20 November 2014

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I’ve been down in the dumps for the last couple of weeks and I’ve really not felt like going out on the Yamaha Fazer8 but today I thought enough is enough and decided to blow away some cobwebs.

The Fazer8 isn’t the most exciting of bikes but the thing with riding any bike is it takes all your concentration and within only a couple of miles of the house I was totally absorbed. There are lots of great roads within easy reach of my house and I soon found myself on the A151, I picked it up at Bourne and rode west, it’s quite rolling and with lots of lovely gentle bends it’s my kind of road.

Regular readers of my blog will know I’m always on the look-out for a nice cuppa and cake stop, so after about an hour of riding pulling into the village of Corby Glen I was pleased to find The Pantry. It’s a little deli and coffee shop with loads of parking outside and offers a great range of cakes and sandwiches. The girls who run the shop were very welcoming and only too pleased to accommodate bikers, which is always great.

Arriving back home I’d had a blustery but enjoyable ride and realised that you really can’t beat a bit of ‘Bike Therapy.’

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By Alison Silcox

Office Manager and centre of the MCN universe - Over my twenty plus years working for MCN, I’ve had the pleasure of being part of the best motorcycling family in the business. Passing my test in 2005, I’ve been part of the MCN Long Term Test fleet, testing a mix of machines, from my first Kawasaki ER-6n, through to the Ducati Diavel, and pretty much all genres in between. I love nothing more than loading my bike up with kit and disappearing off for a solo adventure. Over recent years I’ve taken solo tours to Scotland, Southern Ireland, France, Venice and Berlin. All of which have been great fun and whet my appetite for future riding jaunts.