From 1 January 2019 we shall be relocating back to the UK.

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You can phone us on 0208 234 6854.

We were (until 31.12.18) registered in France at the Flers- Argentan Chamber of Commerce
Siret number 448 320 549 00018 TVA number FR 11448320549

About us…

We used to live in the village of Boxhill, in Surrey, a well known meeting place for bikers. Jen was a Chartered Secretary and John had his own plumbing & heating business. In 1998 we started visiting Rouen – the old capital of Normandy – for weekends away on John’s Fireblade. It wasn’t long before friends joined us and then their friends. We were even getting calls from people we didn’t know wanting to come along. A couple of years later when we were considering moving to France we started thinking about setting up a small motorbike touring business; motorcyclists were canvassed on the ferries, at Boxhill and at our clubs. We went to night school to learn French – Jen to improve on her A level, John so that he could count. It was in 2002 while we were on holiday cruising down the Yangtze River in China that we formed our business plan (or lifestyle choice as we call it) with another holiday maker who fortunately was an accountant. It was here that we came up with the name of Bike Normandy. The monster was created. Until the end of 2018 we personally ran around 32 trips in Europe every year – more than any UK motorcycle touring company. From 2019 we are only running our longer BN European Tours.

John’s riding history.

His first bike was a loaned Honda C70 but enough about that.
Passing his test in 1996 John purchased an NTV 650 keeping it for 9 months. The next bike was an RF900 which we used to travel round Europe. Our first long tour was from Le Havre to Barcelona, Granada, Cadiz, Seville, Madrid and back from Santander in 1997. The Bug had bitten. More bikes followed – a Blade & GSXR750 and we did more trips – Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Holland, Germany and of course France.
John passed his IAM test in 2001 and went on to become an observer, he occasionally informally shares his knowledge.
Since starting Bike Normandy he’s changed his bikes regularly and currently has too many according to Jen, however he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with having a Street Triple R, a new Tracer 900 and his most ridden bike a comfy V-Strom 1000. John rides approx 18,000 road miles a year.

Since 2006 he’s taken to riding off road. Falling off a lot in the beginning he now no longer accompanies groups on his KTM 350 EXC-F ! His style off road? He hasn’t any but is the self proclaimed British enduro champion of Normandy after beating the only other expat competitor by three places. The fact that he finished 251st doesn’t matter.

Jen’s riding history.

John surprised Jen with her CBT test in 1999 and she had her full licence the next year. Her first bike was a Thundercat which was sold 6 months later for a yellow CBR600. She did a Honda MAC weekend which greatly improved her confidence enabling her also to pass the IAM test in 2001. Jen then changed her bike regularly – a yellow & black GSXR 750 was followed by a yellow 955i Daytona, then three yellow Fireblades – a pattern emerges here – bikes were changed if they didn’t match her yellow jacket! In 2009 Jen got a new toy – a GSXR 750 in orange & black, obviously the jacket had to match and so we’ll start again… After 3 GSXR 750’s in 2016 Jen got a GSXS 1000F in red – with of course matching red leathers! BUT, not happy with riding in red she sold the GSXS 1000F and has now got a new naked GSXS 1000 with the red parts sprayed black so she can revert to her orange kit!! Jen rides approx 15,000 miles a year and is very smooth. Nothing fazes her and she is a very competent rider.

Otto the dog.

Otto joined the team in 2018, he’s a Gordon Setter who’s full of life and loves having new playmates every week. He’s very gentle and sociable.