Bikers' Bookshelf

By Graham Ham

Life can be full of surprises, but it’s also what you make it. Sometimes the two collide. In this, the second book in the series ‘Daisy’s Diaries’, the author, Graham Ham, picks up the continuing story. It’s four years later and, still battling to escape the corporate rat-race and head for the hills, he dreams up a new adventure for him the kids and Daisy, the long suffering classic Triumph motorcycle that played such a central role in the earlier insanity.

Together, they take on a new challenge that will, if Daisy allows it, take them all over Europe, some 8000 miles, in a single short riding season. Along the way, Ham stumbles into an entirely different career involving bikes, riding, adventure and inevitably disaster. He makes a total mess of it, gets away with it in the end, starts again and all the while struggles to fight off the tenacious grip of an old life that simply won’t leave him be. Something’s going to have to give, and he’s determined it won’t be him! But before any of that can happen, Daisy the Triumph is in dire need of repairs. She’s had a hard four years! The family dog has other ideas, life seems to have other ideas, and not even a single mile falls under their wheels before the challenge, the career and life in general spiral into almost comedic chaos. Can they overcome the problems? Will it all turn out alright in the end? Well, as it says at the beginning. Life is full of surprises, so who knows?