Adrenalin Takes a While ..

.... to get out of your system. Circumstances and a beer meant that my bike
was locked to a railing outside my pad on Saturday night, whilst I was at
SO's. I couldn't be arsed going to get it last night, and so got the bus
to work this morning (wisely, as it turns out, as the roads were copiously
layered with black ice).

This evening, I go over to check up on it, and as I'm walking down the
street, I'm thinking, '****, I can't see the bike ...' and started to think
that some scrote had taken a shine to a violet K100 [1].

Get closer, however, and I see that she's lying at an angle, stricken.
'What have they done to you ??!' I cried, rushing forward.

In fact, what had happened is that the shitty weather of the weekend had
caused the sidestand to sink into the earth, and the U on her front wheel
had held her upright. Worse, the keys were in my pad, six floor up. I
heaved her up, and for want of a better solution, used the radio cubbyhole
lid to hold the stand off the ground, thinking, 'well it's cheaper to
replace than a front wheel !'

Rushed upstairs, grabbed helmet and keys, downstairs and unlocked her.
Thankfully, the wheel doesn't appear to have suffered. <phew> Rode her
back to SO's (fucking my dress shoes, but no way was I leaving her another
night), and still shaking enough from the shock to bawl out some dumb ****
who was crossing SO's street, talking into his mobile and looking in the
_wrong_ direction to see if anything was coming.

All's well that ends well. My Precious is intact. Thunderbirds are 'Go!'
for Auxerre this Saturday..

[1] well stranger things have happened...

 

http://tinyurl.com/6y3gk

HTH.

 

But I thought yours was grey?

 

Purple is the new iGrey

--
Spete
www.gimmemoney.mine.nu
www.spete.homeip.net

Occasionally, I'll be consistent

 

Yes it is.

Either that or I'm [1] colour-blind.

[1] along with at least a dozen colleagues and friends [2]
[2] all together now ...

 

That's the reason I said grey.

What did you mean by this:

"that some scrote had taken a shine to a violet K100"?

The bike in those pictures isn't violet.

 

Either that or (<drum roll>) ... I don't have a bike.

 

You're either taking the piss or telling fibs.

 

OK, so one colleague used the word 'mauve'.

 

It's a dark metallic grey with a purple tinge.

Violet is a lighter colour


--
Alex

YZF 600

"I laugh in the face of danger"

"Then I hide until it goes away"

www.upce.org.uk
www.drzoidberg.co.uk

 

Three words:

Dull.

Metallic.

Purple.

 

Grse please.

 

_Ginge says...

It's a BMW, two words used there were surplus to requirements.

 

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 20:18:52 +0000, genuine_froggie wrote:

What ever floats your boat .......

 

Is it paint code 673 (there's a paint code sticker under the seat)

http://www.bmbikes.co.uk/photos/colourcharts/1991 colour chart.jpg

"topaz red violet metallic"



--
Steve Parry

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

http://www.arrivedeprived.org.uk/

K100RS SE
F650
(not forgetting the SK90PY)

 

Look, face reality man(1) you don't have a BMW.

You have a an R1.

1. Maybe.

 

Sad ****. ;-)

Anyway, I came in by bus again this morning, so you'll have to wait until
later for confirmation.

 

What, 'words' and 'three' ?

 

genuine_froggie wrote:
[snip a lot of very dull text]

Such as?

--
Martin:
"For a minute there, you bored me to death."
VTR1000 Firestorm
TDR250 http://ukrm.net/BIKES/Yamaha/tdr250.html
martin dot smith nine zero three at ntlworld dot com

 

Um ... well ... such as some thick **** not trying to get into the Clique
by the back door.