The Chinese Motorcycle

[Mortblanc]

Well SS, I actually went back to riding bikes after making two realizations.

First was that my friends were all dying, some younger than me, and they were dying embarrassingly.

Heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, cancer...Is dying on a motorbike worse than that?

I have one friend that did himself in by falling in the shower!

Can you imagine finding out that old rough, tough and cantankerous outdoorsman, hunter, fisherman, thrill seeker Mortblanc died by falling in the shower?

I much prefer the thought that some day someone will look at someone else and say, "Did you known that old fool died riding a motorbike? He was seventy-something!"

Now there was a second realization that prompted me to make this foolish choice, that is the fact that both my wife and my mother are dead! Neither of them are around to tell me I can't have one and both had dome so at various times in the past.

That really did tick me off a bit since my wife had once owned a Harley!

At any rate bits and bobs are arriving in the post and I am waiting for a day of warmth and no rain, a condition that has been scarce for a week.

I did get the quick release rig for the battery installed yesterday, so the battery will go in and out in about 30 seconds and stay on the charger while inside.

I made the decision to peel the stick on decals from the plastics on the bike. They were a bit gaudy, as if the zombie green paint scheme were not already bad enough. Now it is simply smooth neon green plastic and I am contemplating a camo paint scheme to match my motorboat.

There is a good side though, if I leave it neon green it is highly visible, especially when I wear my neon yellow helmet! No one can say they failed to see me coming!

I also have a 12v cigarette lighter type plug to install so I can follow Google Earth to my death. We have some roads about this area that do not show up the computer mapping. I can plug the sat-nav in after I install that.