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A Sentimental Journey

Dave Gurman Ducati Honda Kawasaki Suzuki Touring Travel Triumph

A Sentimental Journey

30th July 2025 Dave Gurman

A Last Hurrah

Dave Gurman Touring Travel

A Last Hurrah

24th July 2025 Dave Gurman

Milwaukee Megalith

Dave Gurman Harley Davidson Slider Travel

Milwaukee Megalith

24th June 2025 Dave Gurman

Protected: Maurice ‘Mo’ Simpson 1940-2025, RIP

27th May 2025 Dave Gurman

The IJMS Conference, 2024

Andy Tribble Culture

The IJMS Conference, 2024

28th January 2025 Dave Gurman

Second Verse, Same as the First

Jonathan Boorstein Motolit & Culture Travel

Second Verse, Same as the First

12th December 2024 Dave Gurman

The Origin of the Species

Contributors Simon Kewer

The Origin of the Species

25th April 2024 Dave Gurman

Riders’ Lives Special ~ ‘Hairy Biker’ Dave Myers

Martin Haskell Riders' Lives

Riders’ Lives Special ~ ‘Hairy Biker’ Dave Myers

29th February 2024 Dave Gurman

From the Editor ~ 194

Ace Cafe Couriers Dave Gurman From the Editor

From the Editor ~ 194

27th November 2023 Dave Gurman

An Upbeat Farewell

An Upbeat Farewell

20th November 2023 Dave Gurman

A Sentimental Journey

Dave Gurman Ducati Honda Kawasaki Suzuki Touring Travel Triumph

A Sentimental Journey

30th July 2025 Dave Gurman

A Last Hurrah

Dave Gurman Touring Travel

A Last Hurrah

24th July 2025 Dave Gurman

Milwaukee Megalith

Dave Gurman Harley Davidson Slider Travel

Milwaukee Megalith

24th June 2025 Dave Gurman

Protected: Maurice ‘Mo’ Simpson 1940-2025, RIP

27th May 2025 Dave Gurman

Motolit & Culture

We are proud to present our wonderful archive of the best, most detailed, definitive motorcycle related book reviews anywhere on the Internet (they were described by one well-known author as 'forensic').

Second Verse, Same as the First

Jonathan Boorstein Motolit & Culture Travel

Second Verse, Same as the First

12th December 2024 Dave Gurman

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BMW Book Reviews Jonathan Boorstein Motolit & Culture

Beemer Bash

12th December 2022 Dave Gurman

One Moment, Please

#RidersDigest25 Jonathan Boorstein Motolit & Culture Travel

One Moment, Please

3rd December 2022 Dave Gurman

Of Bikers and Baiku

Jonathan Boorstein Motolit & Culture Slider

Of Bikers and Baiku

1st December 2020 Dave Gurman

From the Editor

Pearls of varying degrees of wisdom from DG.

From the Editor ~ 194

Ace Cafe Couriers Dave Gurman From the Editor

From the Editor ~ 194

27th November 2023 Dave Gurman

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Unintended Consequences

From the Editor Politics

Unintended Consequences

28th November 2022 Dave Gurman

From the Editor

Dave Gurman From the Editor

From the Editor

25th July 2021 Dave Gurman

From the Editor ~ 169

Dave Gurman From the Editor Issue 169

From the Editor ~ 169

19th December 2020 Dave Gurman

From the Editor ~ 181

Dave Gurman From the Editor

From the Editor ~ 181

24th July 2020 Dave Gurman

From The Editor

Contributors Dave Gurman From the Editor

From The Editor

6th August 2019 Dave Gurman

From the Editor

Dave Gurman From the Editor

From the Editor

1st December 2018 Dave Gurman

From the Editor

Dave Gurman From the Editor

From the Editor

17th January 2017 Dave Gurman

ExileFM

Image of the Month ~ 183

Riders’ Lives

We've been asking the same ten questions since some time in the early noughties. A few of the respondents have been famous, while others were just regular riders, but the one thing they all had in common is that they provided us with some excellent answers.

Martin Haskell Riders' Lives

Riders’ Lives Special ~ ‘Hairy Biker’ Dave Myers

29th February 2024 Dave Gurman

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Features Riders' Lives

Riders’ Lives ~ Phil Read

13th October 2022 Dave Gurman

Riders’ Lives ~ David Vanian

23rd October 2020 Dave Gurman

Riders' Lives Women

Riders’ Lives ~ Maria Costello

23rd February 2020 Dave Gurman

Regulars Riders' Lives

Riders’ Lives ~ Mark Wilsmore

13th February 2020 Dave Gurman

Riders’ Lives ~ Steve Parrish

3rd February 2020 Dave Gurman

About Us

The Rider's Digest was the brainchild of Roger Tuson who'd noticed while working as a despatch rider that the industry in London might benefit from a dedicated free magazine financed by recruitment ads. Issue 1 was 24 b&w, photocopied, hand collated and stapled pages and it was released in August 1997. It grew into a national 72 page full colour freebie over the following ten years, distributing 32,000 copies a month at its peak, before releasing a 132 page retail version in the spring of 2009. Unfortunately it went bust a couple of years later; but after a brief few months, Dave Gurman, (who'd edited issues 101 to 141), was persuaded to restore it online. This site was updated in September 2018 after a bit of hiatus and started publishing new features as well as reproducing articles and images from our extensive twenty plus years archive.

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