My epic trip including failure

The Artist · Super Spammer Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Karma :

Left south Cheshire at a quarter to 1pm.

2:30pm it starts pissing it down. Soaked to the bone, cold and miserable.
2:30pm-5pm get lost, do an extra 30-40 miles because I went the wrong way.
Got pissed off so taped my sat nav to my clocks so I didn't go wrong again.
5pm, arrive near Peterborough
5:30pm, get the job and set off home again.
5:35pm, Torrential rain and hail.
6pm, realise my sat nav has fallen off and is now either in some chavs pocket, on ebay or crushed by a lorry.
8pm, 60 miles from home, rain is now so heavy I can barely see where I am going down the A50. Everytime I brake or change gear, I feel the water squelching around. I can feel it dripping down my leg into my shoes.
Cue bike fail. After 250 odd miles of riding the water finally gets passed my barrier to the electrics and all is lost.
Cue phone with no credit, reverse charging people and calling orange to get them to give me some credit.
Call breakdown cover which i bought yesterday Laughing

1 hour later, turns up, nice chap called Jeff who is totally illiterate but funny as fook.
Nice cup of coffee at the depot whilst they move my bike to a different truck.
12pm, arrive home, still soaked.

Couldn't be more glad for breakdown cover.

All in all, the GS did ok, just the rain that gets to it after a while which I can probably sort out.

Alexio · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Aug 2009 Karma :

Epic yes, but it just goes to prove what I said about your bike being a bit of a death trap. My CG did about the same about of miles in one day of torrential rain with no troubles Razz

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will never give up his CG. I look at my fuel gauge more as a progress bar than a fuel gauge.
G: With my GSXR I do often effectively use it as a scooter with a clutch in town.
ms51ves3: why does it need 500 miles? Are you teaching it how to be a piston?