I had my six-monthly check-up at
Christies in Manchester last week; the evening before I spent a very pleasant
couple of hours in the pub with Nikos after first drooling over his accessory-loaded
GS (I want one!); anyway, the examination went well, should have at least
another few riding seasons left in me, so that cheered me up considerably.
On Sunday went for a walk in the
park with LF, lots of blossoms out, it was almost like spring.
The spring weather has even infused
my ride to work; this morning I challenged my co-worker Jim to a race to work,
we were sitting at the traffic lights at Chiswick bridge, me on the trusty
trumpet and Jim on his 125 Vespa. I took off like a lunatic, Jim getting
smaller in my mirrors, weaved in and out of the traffic around Shepherds bush,
up and on to the Westway where I could open her up for a minute, then down into
Paddington – 8 miles in double quick time. You guessed it, I parked up, took
off my helmet, and here’s Jim arriving all cool on his Vespa not one minute
after me. I felt like Dick Dastardly.
Oh, and I’ve hired one of those BMW
GS’ for a long weekend tour of northern France, off in a couple of weeks…need
to get the ferry booked, route to plan.
