Ride first, think later.
Every rider knows the feeling. The bike is packed, the ferry is booked, and somewhere between the kerb and the first foreign roundabout a small voice asks what on earth you think you're doing.
Fear and Fearlessness is Nik Codling's account of answering that voice, usually badly. It's a book about taking a motorcycle a long way from home and finding out exactly how much you don't know: about the roads, the language, the rules, the bike, and yourself.
Part travelogue, part confession and part survival manual, it's for anyone who has stood next to a loaded bike wondering whether they're brave or just daft. Usually the honest answer is both.
The useful kind
The nerves that make you check the tyres twice, read the road properly and turn back when the weather says so.
The daft kind
The confidence that gets you onto a mountain pass at dusk, low on fuel, armed with a phrasebook and a smile.
What's inside
- The misadventuresThe wrong turns, wrong roads and wrong decisions that make the best stories afterwards.
- The lessonsWhat each mistake taught, so you can skip a few of them yourself.
- The peopleStrangers, fellow riders and helpful locals met along the way.
- The honestyA rider owning up to being scared, and riding on anyway.