My dad had a RD 250, am i realy that young !!!
Whats a Bsa ?
i also lived in the sticks and just had to get out of the house and bought a RD 50 , i can still remember that feeling of riding away from the house for the first time with Large smile on my face, unforgetable...
i moved out to Germany in 1991 and bought my first big bike ( an jap 750!!) and rode on until i got married in 1996 BIG MISTAKE......... bike hater female......does this ring any bells-----
Your allways out on your bike.
i never see you at the weekends.
you think more of your bike than me.
how much for those tyres/brake hoses/insert as ness
etc etc etc
needless to say devorce followed, I must admit it was the worst time ive ever had ,every time i saw a bike i wished i hadnt sold mine to keep her indoors happy and i found myself stood still in the street looking at dog old gsx´s and Fzr´s and wondering if i was comming down with something ........
i bought a fireblade in 1997 and havent looked back i was fooled into having a go on a mate´s 996 and as he said ha wanted a go on my blade (im sure he was in kahoots with the Ducati dealer) and that was it i swapped it for a 2000 996 and promtly wrote it off after 2months on the Nurburgring and and put myself in hospital for 8 weeks with the resultant injurys of running into armco at 120mph ouch... broken pelvis, blood clots in leg loss of feelling below the waist etc. all i was thinking about was hmmm bike bike bike. new pipes errr carbon tank and and and so on . after 8 months on sick leave i finaly got my bike fixed and back on the road and life goes on , im married again now (twice married before 30 isnt bad going eh but we live n learn ) and my wife now also rides , a ducati , a 748 ,with loud pipes ,te he lifes good shes also got the bug she even comes on track days with me , shes not the fastest but not the slowest, and most of all our daughter sees mum n dad talking and reading bikes bikes bikes so there is hope for the future. what is funny is my dad is constantly telling me to grow up and sell those dangerious bike things as i shoule have grown out of it by now (im only 32 for gods sake) and he started it with the old RD , but the best is the wife has bought me a prezzy, a 2003 fila 999r ,so at least i know shes on my side !!
