What always amazes me are the people who come up to you at bike meets or wherever you stop and say "is your bike alright mate, it's making a lot of noise". I'm losing count of the number of times it being said to me. It happened a couple of weeks ago to Richard and myself and I'm sure we both had the same resigned look on our faces and were thinking the same thing - "oh no here we go again". You can't beat a duke for character and soul which the Japs can't seem to capture no matter how good looking and quick and gimicky they make their bikes. |