Mister James
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 Posted: 23:13 - 16 Oct 2005  Post subject: How to be a better rider... |
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Ride a scooter for 2 weeks, and then treat yourself to a commute into work on your big bike! Here follows a garbled rant from a fella with a big grin plastered on his face.
The weather was nice at lunchtime as I was getting kitted up, so I decided to dump my frugal regime and ride the Fazer in for the first time in a fortnight.
As I hopped on it, I realised just how tiny and unstable the scooter is in comparison. As I pulled out of my posh gated car park a little too fast and hauled on the anchors, I realised just how shite the brakes on the scooter are in comparison, as a little 2 fingered tug nearly sent me arse-over-tit!
One hastily dialled-down front brake later, I was zipping down the bumpy back roads dodging speed bumps. Where the scooter was making me chuckle and snigger with the sheer nippy-ness and craziness of the ride, the Fazer was gliding over the crap road surface like a Bentley on Prozac, eliciting a smug, superior grin.
While on the main roads, I noticed that my positioning and observation was vastly improved, thanks to some terrifying moments on the scooter, (with it's appalling mirrors and insignificant road presence) but it was on the dual carriagway that I really remembered why I loved my bike!
While purists and speed-junkies with their race-reps and litre bikes will sneer at a 600cc 'all rounder', 98bhp when you've been riding on something less than 10% of that is exhilarating! Yank the throttle open, and you actually accelerate up to the desired speed before you've forgotten why you wanted to go that fast in the first place!
Overtakes become smooth and powerful, and safer because your tiny brain still thinks you are on a 100cc stealth moped that everyone views as a moving target.
When pulling away from the lights, you are no longer praying that noone will try and race you and run into your arse, you are praying that they do try it so that you can humiliate them without trying!
Crusing at speed no longer involves sitting in the slow lane at the edge of your machine's capability with 16 wheelers driving up your jacksie because you are the only thing on the road slower than them!
The single best part of the trips to and from work came on the way home, on the quiet dual carriageway.
A Mr Mistry (he had a personalised number plate) decided that despite having about a 3 miles of empty dual carriageway to place himself, he wanted to occupy the point about 2 feet in front of my bike. Further more, his preferred method of getting there involved overtaking at speed, then slamming on the brakes as soon as he was in front of me!
Mr James (having wasted a lot of time today remonstrating with people that looked quite similar to this goon with his standard issue rudeboy Craig David-esque beard) pulled back to a safe distance, dropped a cog, pulled alongside said tosser, flips the bird and accelerates into the distance.
At the very second I started pulling away from him, the sky directly in front of us was filled with a massive firework display!
Perfect timing, and the icing on the cake, it turned a mediocre display of annoyance into a sparkling display of vengance!
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McGee
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Posted: 23:22 - 16 Oct 2005  Post subject: |
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Good on ya! 
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| Posted: 23:52 - 16 Oct 2005 Post subject: |
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Stop increasing my lust for a bike! 
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