Motorcycle Explorer December 2014 Issue 3 | Page 195

In Review
Adventures in Motorcycling
– Despatching Through 80’s
London.
By Chris Scott
T
wo questions answered in definitive
fassion in this part autobiography written by
the man who wrote Adventure Motorcycling
Handbook, better known as ‘The Bible’. How
does someone end up writing an adventure
book and what was life like in booming 80’s
London when you have no where to live and
no idea what you want do other than ride
motorbikes as fast as possible to avoid the
odd riot!
This is the journey of a young man’s life
during this fast and furious age of go get the
dosh, tear up the streets, leave no prisoners
motorcycle despatching. Actually starting in
the 70’s this absolutely must read gem of a
book gives blunt, warts an all history of big
city life for Chris Scott’s ‘coming of age’ that
lead him to ride across the Sahara.
Scott’s writing style flows with a graceful ease
from era to era and bike to bike as the music,
sh