The BMW is being shipped south on Friday, marking, I think, the end of my motorcycling career. Then again, maybe not. My friend Dave is allegedly getting a new Ducati, and he's a decade older than me...
Today I tried starting up the Big Blue Beast that is my R80/7, and after a bit of cajoling, it thundered into life, sounding spry and healthy for a 21-year-old machine. Better than I sound in the mornings, anyway. Or for that matter, most afternoons...Momentarily, I felt like keeping it. But then I tried to get the Beemer off its centre stand, and nearly re-opened my old hernia scars.
Maybe a Honda 50. Or a Vespa...
No! It's acoustic motorbikes only from now on! I swear!
BTW, there's a new post on Nippy Sweeties for all you whisky lovers...
2 comments:
hi tom
ah'm assured from a man who is nearing his retirement that the way tae go if you want tae keep on bikeing is get wan o' these twist and go things , it looks like a vespa but has bigger wheels , his has a 400cc engine 13" wheels and will see him oot , this is a man who counting his working days in months noo,
cheers tom
Strangely enough, Hoolet, I was just coming up the road in the Berlingo daydreaming of a scooter....ah, the smell of two-stroke in the morning...
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