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 Late in May before the midges arrive in Scotland there is a festival in the lowlands in Dumfrieshire. It's always a nice ride up even on the motorway from Liverpool. The expanse of the landscapes becomes apparent. Not often do you meet people on the road but this time I meet this very interesting guy, Stuart, whizzing along at fair speed. A pretty modified Honda Shadow ! We both end up sharing the spirit of www.knockengorroch.org.uk. Fid The Lid.

Accompanied by motorcycle outriders, The Groom, Jules Horn selected to ride his 1953 BSA B31 to escort his new Bride, Lorni, to their wedding in Machynlleth, Wales on Friday 6th June 2008. After walking under an archway of helmets, the new Mrs Horni Lorni rode pillion with Jules to the reception.

 "Originally we make it for the catwalk but now customers want them too...... we have a lot of press (coverage) in Vogue Italy, V Magazine, Wound Magazine, Dazed and Confused....In August and September ( 2008)....." Thomas Lillo for Natalia Brilli  http:www.nataliabrilli.fr 

 Fancy winning a piece of racing memorabilia? eBike have got 2 Davida helmets to give away from the Thundersprint weekend. One signed by Giacomo Agostini and the other by Jim Redman. To enter, tell them, in 20 words or less why the Thundersprint is such a unique event. Email your entry to marketing@egroupltd.co.uk (including your name, address and date of birth) before Friday 6 June 2008. The helmets will be awarded to the 2 entries that our judge considers to best capture the essence of the annual Thundersprint weekend

 By Any Means

Wearing a Davida, Charley Boorman left Oxford on April 15th to complete the UK leg of By Any Means, his new trip from County Wicklow. Ireland to Sydney, Australia. Travelling across 24 countries and traversing three continents the challenge will be to get to Australia using any form of transport he can lay his hands on, providing it is not an aircraft.

The adventure, which will be screened in the Autumn on BBC2, and is a reminder of the time before air travel, when getting to Sydney was a life changing trip that crossed cultures, language and ethnicity as well as time zones and date lines. As always Charley will porive that a journey is just as important as the destination

Regular updates of Charley's trip can be found on the the By Any Means website

 If you are a French Adventure Travel Writer or one of the grand Political Reporters of France, then Thomas Goisque is the Photographer of choice to have on your journey. Having accompanied and photographed writer’s sometimes war torn, often bizarre, but always amazing assignments in locations across the world, his images have been published within their highly acclaimed books as well as within the French National Daily, La Figaro.

 

Thomas and his travelling companions are often making their journeys by motorcycle and have had Davida helmets for quite a while now. Until Moto Photo we didn't really know what to do with the images Thomas sent back to us. His pictures at the Moto Photo Exhibition were very popular amongst motorcyclist and non-motorcyclists alike. See more of his images click here

 More than 300 guests, invited from the motorcycling world, travelled from Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Finland, as well as from Edinburgh and London, and all points inbetween, to be apart of the highly successful Private View and launch party for the first Moto Photo Exhibition, held in Liverpool on February 23rd and 24th, 2008.

Now ready to tour the world, Moto Photo is an eclectic collection of 200 printed images selected by Davida from more than 2000 photographs submitted by riders and motorcycle magazines across the world. Spanning every decade of motorcycling history from 1889 through to the present day, Moto Photo is much more than a celebration of the motorcyclist. The human interest to be found in photographs which depict more than a 100 years of social and cultural change will fascinate anyone, even those with little or no passion for motorcycling.

Organised by Davida and inspired by every rider we have met on our way. Enjoy your pursuits.

See http://www.davidamotophoto.com to see some of the exhibition images, 2008 tour dates and venues, details of how you may submitt images for the next Moto Photo and how you can bool the exhibition for a venue near you.

Photographs play a big part in our lives here at Davida. Images we have seen in motorcycle magazines from around the world over the past 30 years have always fascinated us.

We decided to hold our first Moto Photo Exhibition to celebrate motor cycling photography. We have asked riders, magazines and owners of photographic archives to submit both historic and contemporary photographs of their road trips, good times down at the café, out in the wild on their bike – anything with interesting content or aesthetic value. They'll be treasured pictures handed down from past generations or something taken at an event last week. We hope to capture the spirit of people that riders have met on bikes or people who have inspired them along the way.

The exhibition will be held at the Static Gallery, 23 Roscoe Street, Liverpool, England, L1 9JD. Roscoe Street is off Berry Street. It's 10 minutes walk from Liverpool Lime Street Railway Station and a few streets away from the Anglican Cathedral.

You are welcome to join us for the Private View and Party on Saturday 23rd February 2008. Contact us on T: +44 (0)151 647 2419 or email photo@davida.co.uk to add your names to the guest list. No tickets or entrance fee. Numbers are limited so we ask you to contact us asap if you wish to come along.

Please, if find you cannot join us please let us know so we may offer your place to those on the waiting list.

Liverpool Fc play Middlesborough at home so please check accommodation asap.

Wether you can join us at the Private View or not and want to find out more about how this exhibition went then subscribe to our newsletter following http://list-manage.com/subscribe.phtml?id=237c64356f

We have had a fantastic response and submittion of images is now closed. 

The purpose of the exhibition is to have a bit of fun and see some really good motorcycle-related photographs. We do not expect images to show a motorcycle or Davida products.

Tickets for Private View - As well as those people contributing images, we welcome anyone who is interested to attend the Private View. Send your request for tickets, with your full postal address details to photo@davida.co.uk or telephone Davida directly on +44 (0)151 647 2419.

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Gill Mollard, from Cleveland, was today announced the winner of the Davida Competition and will be recieving her prize of a new Davida 74 WRS Kit.

"I'm delighted" said Gill. Her winning suggestion to our question " What does WRS stand for ?" was " WON'T RUDDY SNAP !" Although the most popular suggestion by far was Wrap aRound Sunglasses we decided, this time, to choose a bit of wit above logic.