Motorcycle Escapes from London

About this book

Out of ideas? Never out of roads.

If you ride a motorbike in or around London, you know how it goes. You love the machine, you love being out on it — but after a while the same old routes start to blur into one, and "where shall I go this weekend?" becomes the question that quietly keeps the bike in the garage.

Motorcycle Escapes From London is the answer to that question, 137 times over!

This is a guidebook of day-trip destinations and rides you can do from London, put together by a rider who got bored of the same three loops and went looking for new places to see. Spread across twenty-three regions — Kent and the Medway forts, the Sussex Downs and coast, leafy Surrey, the Chilterns and Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and the Thames Estuary — it gives you somewhere worth riding to and, often, a genuinely good road to get there on.

Inside you'll find the well-known set-pieces and the wonderfully obscure: clifftop castles and Napoleonic sea forts, chalk figures carved into the hillsides, a Maharajah's well in a Chiltern village, a lost Egyptian spring, model villages, Cold War code-breaking huts, forgotten aerodromes, Thames-side memory walks, and the classic biker cafés where you'll want to end the day.

What's inside

• 137 hand-picked destinations grouped into 23 regional chapters — each a self-contained day out
• A colour locator map for every chapter, with numbered stops so you can string several together into a proper ride
• Practical details — parking, opening times, admission, and rider-critical notes on ULEZ zones and crossings like the Dartford Charge
• An original colour illustration for every landmark, and a different motorcycle opening every chapter
• Honest, no-nonsense write-ups — what the place is, why it's worth the ride, and what to expect when you arrive

Who it's for

Riders based in London and the Home Counties who want fresh destinations without a fortnight of research. Weekend explorers, ride-out organisers, new riders building confidence on longer trips, and anyone who's ever sat on a bike wondering which way to turn out of the drive. Whether you've got a spare afternoon or a whole Sunday, open the book, pick a region, plan a loop and ride. The map's already done for you.