It was an eventful night last night. Up at rehearsals, the church hall boiler let go in impressively moist fashion (mains inlet seal burst), involving a good deal of mopping and other frantic activity. Set off for home in a cold, damp and mildly miserable state, only to almost crash a couple of miles down the road on what I assumed was diesel. There was a long band of the stuff stretching off into the distance, demonstrating - amongst other things - a truly dreadful approach to road positioning. Had to cross it a couple of times, but knowing it was there made that much less dramatic than the first encounter. And about a mile or so later, I came across the culprit, marooned halfway round a roundabout. Some old dear in an elderly saloon car that had shed it's transmission big-time. Obviously, I stopped and gave her a push to the nearest safe(ish) place. Not that safe, it turned out, as a personalised-number-plate-4x4 promptly came close to running us over in his haste to get past without slowing down or helping (you, sir, I rather hope, will perish in an embarrassing and painful manner). At which point, a police car turned up, piloted by a young lady who I'm sure was half the team that pulled me last week. Karma in action, perhaps, being caught in the act of doing something civil-minded instead of illegal this time! Fortunately, the remainder of the journey was incident-free. And I can report that my heated grip/hand protector combination is a good one - at least my hands were warm at the end of it, unlike the rest of me...

>> ex silens nox noctis <<

Seems to have all scrubbed off the tyres now, too, so - most importantly - the bike is perfectly fine!

Hopefully there's at least one person out there who will look more favourably on two-wheelers in future. And more to the point, perhaps, invest in a slightly more fluid-tight vehicle.

>> ex silens nox noctis <<

Or if I need to see what's new on eBay.

>> ex silens nox noctis <<

I can't get this flippin' website to upload some bigger pic's of the duke for you to look at, grrr, I'll see if I can get them on, otherwise I'll have to post them somewhere. I quite like the suggested name for the pic's.

Hope everybody & well & the rain wasn't too bad where you were. We had some craking wind, it' managed to rip up a honeysuckle plant in our garden & knock the bike over oops. All is well though bike picked back up and the bungs were fab no damage.

I'll be "nearly well", myself: as noted elewhere, had a pretty big off the other week. Expensive as well as painful - wish the loan bike had crash bungs fitted, it could have made quite a significant difference! Good things to have, even if they're not usually very beautiful.

We caught the same big wind, but not quite as destructive by the sounds of it. Good to hear your bike's OK, though.

>> ex silens nox noctis <<