A Biker's Life: Misadventures on (and off) Two Wheels

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The Victoria and Albert Museum, of which he was founding Director, remains his best-known memorial, and is a symbol of his mission to educate through the exhibition of objects. It’s a book about mindfulness, it’s a book about how people can turn their lives around even when the chips are down, it’s a book about following your dreams and most of all, it’s a bloody good read.

They’re the place where old things get a new lease of life, and where new things – the motor, the light bulb, the telephone – are invented. This book reminds millions of motorcyclists why their bike gives them the freedom to be exactly who they want to be: to say 'Fuck you, fuck the world, I'm doing my thing. There's a bit of name-dropping and the last 20% kind of limps along with random stream of consciousness observations that give the impression he was done with story but the publisher wanted more. If your like me, I loved Motorcycles from an early age, in my teens -twenty's I had a range of Bike's and if I'd kept them, they'd be worth a load of Dosh today. If you are a biker or not it's a good read about a person who starts life at Eaton plus a early life on drugs now over 30 years clean and great TV presenter and family man.

my first option of Henry was what a posh twat, but after years of watching him and his biking experiences I grew to like him, now after listening to his brilliantly told story I like him even more, he may have had a privileged early life but he lived, more than most. Henry Cole has been riding for as long as I have ( I've never owned a car) so i could relate to a lot of what he says, not least what Bikers,as opposed to fairweather summer riders, get out of the experience. Good old Henry) this is an entertaining and engaging read with the occasional philosophical reflection.

Henry Cole's unusual and original rendering of the Underground Railroad speaks directly to our deepest sense of compassion.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Henry’s passion for motorbikes began at the age of eight, when he was first introduced to a ‘man cave’.

A Biker’s Life” is the dramatic, humorous and candid memoir of one of the most recognisable names in motorcycling – Henry Cole. From the beloved illustrator and author of A Nest for Celeste comes Brambleheart, a beautiful tale about nature, imagination, and how love is the greatest thing we build.Having seen a couple of Henry’s programmes I was mildly familiar with the presenting side but never had a clue how inspirational he really is. The short time we owned a motorbike and side car make Henry's love of this mode of transport totally understandable. Drawn in monochrome pencil on rough-textured paper, the broad, full-page and full-spread rural scenes give the encounter a shadowy, atmospheric setting.

His great-uncle Redbeard's corrugated iron shed was 'stuffed to the gills with old motorbikes' which Henry helped rebuild and ride.Children's books, hackney cabs, public lavatories, choral singing, cookery, sewage disposal, to name a few subjects, all came under his critical gaze. In a ruminative afterword, Cole reflects on his Virginia family’s own connections to the war and, though silent about the signal quilt he hangs on the farmyard’s fence in the illustrations, explains the significance of the Big Dipper visible in the nighttime sky. I'm with you all the way in your troubles and failures but like you said, you don't learn if it doesn't go wrong.