SOLD!

Pending the arrival of my next ‘bike my beautiful R1200RT-SE is now for sale:

First Registered:24th April 2008

Mileage:8583

Tax Expires:30th April 2010

BMW Warranty Expires:24th April 2010

12 month Extended Insurance Warranty from 25th April 2010.

Bridgestone Battlax BT-021 tyres fitted at 6139 miles (No more than 20% worn).

As well as having the fullest factory specification & options there are also in excess of £4000.00 worth of accessories fitted.

• Biarritz Blue & Silver Lower Panels
• Chrome Exhaust
• Cruise Control
• Tyre Pressure Control (TPC)
• Electronic Suspension Adjustment (ESA)
• Automatic Stability Control (ASC)
• Heated Seats
• Heated Grips
• Radio & CD Player with MP3 Connection
• Power Sockets x 3
• 49 Litre Topcase
• 3 x BMW Luggage Inner bags
• BMW Tank Bag with 12v power and MP3 connection
• Alloy Engine Protectors
• Rear Mudguard Extension
• Front Mudguard Extension
• Pannier Protectors
• Garmin Zumo 550 GPS
• Garmin GTM 12 Traffic Receiver
• Baehr Ultima XL Communications System (Including two helmet head-sets fitted to your own helmets)
• GPS Mount
• BMW Alloy Oil Filler Cap
• Wunderlich Brake Pedal Extender
• Wunderlich Side Stand Extender
• Wunderlich Bar Risers
• Wunderlich Front Fender Extension
• Stebel Magnum Horn
• Triboseat Pillion Seat Cover
• BMW Auxiliary Mirrors

£9495.00

(ONO)

If you have any questions or wish to arrange viewing (In Edinburgh) my contact detail are below:

iphone@dutchman.org.uk

07715 537073

0131 468 0497

My brother, Nick Holland, gathered some friends together and in the shortest possible time produced this:

It’s a fabulous collaboration and your download copy of this charity single can be obtained now by clicking the link below:

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From BBC Scotland:

A lawyer has told how he successfully completed the world’s toughest endurance race, despite cracking his ribs in a crash.

Paul Carlyle, 38, who lives in Leith, quit his day job for a month to compete in the notorious Dakar Rally.

He said he was “over the moon” to become only the second Scot ever to complete the rally on a motorbike.

But Mr Carlyle revealed how a “stupid” crash 11 days into the race nearly brought a premature end to his dreams.

The lawyer, from South Lanarkshire and who now lives in Edinburgh, said: “I went out and found a nice fast bit of track which I was really enjoying riding.

“I started passing a lot of riders, just riding a little bit faster than I had been doing. I made a small mistake in the dust and next thing I know I’m flying through the air.

“I cracked a couple of ribs. I think I landed on my head and I’d given my neck a bit of a shake around, some soft tissue damage, but I was able to get back on the bike and continue riding.

“Once I got on the bike I was fine.”

The rally, which historically ended in Dakar, Senegal, took place in South America for the second year running this year.

Starting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the route headed north over the mountains to the Atacama desert in Chile then headed south to the Chilean capital, Santiago, and back to Buenos Aires.

Mr Carlyle, who could not ride a motorcycle 10 years ago, had to travel the equivalent of the distance between London and Edinburgh, off road, every day for more than a fortnight earlier this month.

The intellectual property lawyer, a partner at Shepherd and Wedderburn in Edinburgh, caught the Dakar bug when he got to know former winner Frenchman Cyril Despres at a charity event in the Moroccan desert.

On Thursday he spoke of his delight at finishing the 5,600-mile marathon after five years of planning for it.

He said: “My plan and ambition was to get to the rest day half-way through. I thought that was a realistic target, so I’m over the moon to get to the end.”

Mr Carlyle was helped during the race by mechanic Tony Woodham and Patsy Quick of Team Desert Rose Racing.