About

About the name first

BikesBabesBytes – supposed to combine my 3 favourite things.

• Bikes – motorbikes
• Babes – family stuff (2 girls and the Mrs)
• Bytes – tech stuff

It also copies my YouTube channel name.

About Me

So about me, I’m a married dad with two daughters and a passion for motorbikes and technology. In my day job I am beginning my new career as a primary school teacher after spending over 25 years in my previous career.

Now that my study (to become a primary school teacher) is finished, I have a lot more free time to enjoy my hobbies, which is nice (and gives me more things to write about).

About Bikes

I did ride a little Honda XR80 when I was about 10, but then my family moved back into the city and it was sold. Many years later I got the bug again and started out on a ZZR250 until I graduated to my full licence and spent the next ten years enjoying my VFR800. Since then I’ve also had a Daytona 675R and currently ride a Ninja Z1000SX. I’ve now been riding for 20 years, but I love it every time I ride. I’ve travelled around (most of which is recorded in here) and commuted (a lot). The blog also has a bunch of ride reports, some tech and gear reviews.

About Tech

I’ve been around computers since my first ZX81, way back in …. 1981 (!). (So you’re starting to realise, I’m a little older…). Over the years I’ve dabbled in most things. So in the end I’m pretty flexible and at the moment I have a iMac, a 11th gen i7 PC and even run a small FreeNAS server. But I also have a bunch of other devices.

Gaming wise, the beginning of this blog was mostly focused on World of Warcraft, but I’ve managed (with a couple of relapses) to finally get sober from that. Since then there has been a variety of games discussed here. Portal, X-Com, Battletech and Tomb Raider are some of the ones I’ve written about here. Historically, some of my favourite games have been Tomb Raider, Ghost Recon, Mechwarrior, Wing Commander and Tenchu.

In tech, I’ve also talked about various other stuff I’ve used or experimented with or has caused me headaches. So this includes a range of Apple products, some PC gear and other random things.

I’ve lumped all my hobbies into Tech, so you will also find a LOT of Dungeons & Dragons posts, the odd LEGO post and all sorts of random nerdy/geeky stuff

And 

And you’ll find all sorts of random life posts as well. My study, family holidays, reviews of running shoes…