The 'Dom' Way Round..

Motorcycle Insurers are all about 'talking the talk'. 'Insurance by bikers for bikers' they say, 'Insurance from enthusiasts'. How many though in reality can actually 'walk the walk'? Well Dom 'Ewan McGregor' Edwards has thrown down the gaunlet..

Take this Director of MCE Insurance, one meaty Harley Davidson 1.6 litre fuel injected DYNA FAT BOB and the South of France and you've got adventure. You've got excitement. You've got what motorcycling's all about- FREEDOM!

Dom's allowed us to publish a snippet from his diary- read this and look at the pictures in the slideshow at the top right. It's enough to make you want to drop everything and throw your leg over- in a motorcycling sense of course..

Don't forget to click on the pics to enlarge them to get the full benefit of the surroundings. Simply awesome. Over to Dom:

“Travelling right down the spine of France from Calais to Troyes then to Dijon - First two hours the rain came down - soldiered through the rain - never been so wet - got to Lyon - a warm 25C, here comes the sun and the ride - 700 miles down and still only half way, The next day down to Nice, and St Tropez – Sun, Sea and Motorcycles....

From Grasse started my the climb into the Alps, up to Mons in the Var through the national parks, up and up I kept going - on towards Grenoble and Switzerland - the previous day I had been at the beach, then today I was in the snow with goats and men that yodel !

At Grenoble started on towards Bourge En Bresse and the long stretch up towards Calais and the Euro Tunnel which indicated the start of the return - I had travelled 2500 miles, met a 1000 different bikers from many nationalities - the French (naturally as I was touring France) Spanish, Germans, Italians, Yankees & 'La Rozzers' !

All with their own story to tell, all with their adventures who then became a part of my own adventure, and all shared the same passion ... "motorcycles, the open road & the sense of no tomorrow... the freedom that only bikers understand "

I have seen, smelt and witnessed some amazing things on this trip, my favorite is the way Bikers "salute" each other - In England you Nod, in Europe you give the PEACE sign or kick your foot out to say "bonjour" My advice to other bikers thinking of this trip is Do iT ! Enjoy IT ! and there’s always a Petrol Station just round the corner .... I feel this is just the start of my adventures !”

Nice one Dom. I love it all, (except maybe the visualisation of being in the snow with goats and men that yodel- Marky Mark)

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MCE out and about

Tuesday 1st July- it's going to be a warm one, apparently. A nice night for a rideout and that's exactly what we've got happening!

Anyone in the Northants area is MORE THAN WELCOME to join us- and here's the deal:

Leaving here at 630pm

MCE Insurance

Crown Way, Rushden,
Northamptonshire, NN10 6BS

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riding to

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Star & Garter public house

The Green, Chelveston

Northamptonshire, NN9 6AJ

All welcome. For more information call Dominic on 07917 681 548

Now, I can't sign off without showing you these pictures (below). MCE Insurance were invited to the recent launch of the new Cafe Racer at the Ace Cafe in London.

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This is no ordinary retro-styled motorcycle- it's a lovingly crafted, in your face 21st century street racer built by the Stonebridge Motor Company. Official specs have not been anounced yet but a little bird tells me it's been on the dyno at 135mph in 5th gear, with a gear to go!

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The craftsmanship is a joy to behold- Ohlins chassis and suspension, a 15 litre tank, bespoke exhausts, exposed clutch unit and a mouth-watering chrome tank.

They are producing 100 of these. I want one, or perhaps two..

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Harleys, South of France, 125s and 'The Ring'..

The grass never grows under the feet of MCE Insurance staff you know.

Yes, we want to Insure you, we want to give you a fabulous motorcycle insurance deal- but we want to RIDE!!!

And to prove it- over the last few days:

• Dom 'Ewan McGregor' Edwards has ridden 1800+ miles on a solo trip to South of France – Photos and highs & lows to follow
  


• We held our first 125cc rideout- a huge success- photos to come next week. 26th June is the next one- Sophie 'The Rider' Atkinson on 0870 420 75 75 has all the details. We want you to join us!
  


• Camera shy Emma 'High Octane' Cunningham has ridden the scary Nurburgring track in Germany (I'm after more info- watch this space)
  


• Dom 'Easy Rider' Edwards has had his initiation at his first Harley owners club meet (see the couple of shots below he managed to take before he was taken away and tattooed to within an inch of his life..)

We've got a lot more planned as well! Watch this space and see the blog below for some dates.

Any questions- email mark2@mceinsurance.com

Come and join us for a ride!

By day we are purveyors of the UK's best and cheapest motorcycle insurance, by night (and weekends as it happens) we like nothing better than to throw our legs over a bike and go for a spin.

In fact, we're arranging loads of rideouts soon- whether 125s, 600cc+ or trackdays are your thing we've got something for you.

We'd like as many of you as possible to come and join us, we reckon it's going to be a lot of fun!

Here's some pics of MCE staff 'living the dream'..

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So, about those rideouts...

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Here's some dates we've got for the diary, there's more to follow

6th June 2008- Ace Café London Bike Night + Streetfighters 6pm to 23:00hrs

22nd June 2008- Ace Café London Gixer Sunday

14th July 2008 Bike Week- ride, ride, ride!

21st July 2008 Silverstone GP Circuit Track Day evening

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2008 Date TBA Northants Police Bike Kraft Day- improve your skills on the Silverstone Circuit!

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If you want any information about these dates/ venues etc. email us: mceinsurance@mark2solutions.com and we'll contact you!

Metal? This week I need no prompting..

Well I'm still gobsmacked. Last week at Bassett's Pole I thought the MCE Insurance team had bagged possibly the finest and rarest machines in the area, with the awesome tricked up Hayabusas and B-King Turbo.

We turned up on Tuesday this week (20th May) with our helmet-polishing babes ready to push the MCE name in the Interest of Cheap Motorcycle Insurance and what did we come across?

A fully tricked up Boss Hoss! That's a 355 bhp, 5.25 litre (not a typing error- 5.25 litre!) V-8 beast. I have it on good authority that there are less than a dozen of these in th UK. See the video at the bottom of today's blog for the walk-around.

After photographing and videoing 'the Hoss' I staggered back to the MCE babes- still amazed by my find. I started talking bikes to a guy named Gavin (6ft 5 personal bodyguard, built like a brick ****house). 'You must ride a pretty big machine' I remarked. 'Yes, A Honda Rune' he said.

Boss Hoss, Helmet-polishing hotpant-clad babes and now a Rune? What an evening!They only made 1,500 Runes in the WORLD you know.

Gavin let me take photos and a bit of video- check out the bar on the right for the pictures in the 20th slideshow. If you click on any of the images you'll get the full size version.

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Which do you prefer? Boss Hoss or Rune? I say Rune- and not just because Gavin was bigger than the Boss Hoss's owner.

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And finally, a big thank you to all the MCE Insurance staff that made the trip to Bassetts Pole on some very nice bikes. (Note: got some good photos of camera-shy Emma from MCE this week- if the back of ladies heads is your thing!)

So, you wanted more metal eh?

Bassetts Pole last night was again inundated with motorcylclists, scooter boys, quad riders, our MCE Insurance babes- even a chap walking a ferret, yes, ferret (or was it the Bassetts Polecat..) on a lead (see the video here).

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I wasn't the only one videoing mind- The local constabulary were out with their cameras, doing their best to keep the bikes on two wheels...

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So, last night we had the pleasure of the company of 2 lovlies, Adele and Sophie- wearing skimpy red shorts that wouldn't have looked any tighter if they were sprayed on.

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But oh no, feedback from my last blog says that although you appreciate the ladies laid on by the UK's best purveyor of top quality and cheap motorcycle insurance, you wanted more metal.

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If it's more metal you want, it's more metal you'll get! Check out this week's slideshow then- and look out for MCE Insurance's very own 'Perkins'- showed up with the lovely Emma (from MCE's finance dept.) who wouldn't let me take her photo. (Note to Emma- your hair was great, honest. I'll get you next time. MarkyMark)

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I've just uploaded this weeks youtube videos as well- see the video bar to the right.

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We've polished our first helmets!

Yes, Bassetts Pole was alive and kicking on Tuesday night! (6th May).

I (lucky photo & video man) was there to capture the lovely Kat and Adele attending to the helmet needs of dozens of bikers.

Here's Kat- pictured after giving this ZX9 owner's helmet a jolly good buffing.

MCE Insurance was proud to be seen at this event, after many years still possibly the top bike meet in the Midlands. The girls enjoyed it too, or so they told me whilst slurping the froth from their hot chocolate afterwards.

Buffed helmets, babes, frothy drinks, insurance, it's all to much for me. I'm off to upload some more photos and see if I've got any decent video footage to put on!

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