jcstokes
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Slightly over five years ago I developed an "affair" with a brand new Suzuki S40. Today I celebrated five years of "marriage", I left it in the garage. Like all good relationships I failed in my "marriage" , I had hoped to have logged 50000 kms or 31069 miles in that time, but I failed and only achieved 49000 kms or 30464 miles. Virtually all happy miles, because of a wet winter here I hadn't used the bike, and a fine sunny day was a reason to push her over 49000 kms. My friends were with me. I have remarked on this forum, that you have three friends in motorcycling, your two mirrors , and the big gap in front of you. I set off from home and followed a SUV. We both turned left at a stop sign, travelled down the road and merged right into the beginning of a slip lane to turn right into a minor road. I had good visibility, there was nothing in front of the SUV, then he stopped, indicator on, all legally correct to go to a pie shop on the other side of the road. Foork, the front brake did what little it could, the rear brake locked up and the bike began to fish tail, the SUV loomed closer, and the rear brake locked up and fish tailed again. Fortunately I had kept the reasonable, if not big gap. If it had been wet, I would have been down. After quarter of an hour or so ,I'd calmed down enough to enjoy the rest of the ride and get my 49000 plus km. About three and a bit years from now, I might get one of Sewrobot's 50000 mile awards.
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