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I Miss Beemerdons!
GORGEOUS 78 degree day today in Central Florida. (Eat yer hearts out, yankees!)
Just finished up a carb overhaul on my ZRex and thought I'd go hoolie-mode for a while.
Went for a short drive that turned in to a long one. Don't they always?
Coming back home, about 3 miles from my house, I'm winding down out of hoolie-mode and putting along the 4 lane around 60 when a guy with brand new ATTGATT astride a brand new C-14 comes ripping past me. It was SO new, it still had plastic on the seat and a 2 day old dealer tag.
Since I wasn't completely out of character, I decided to give chase. Caught up with him at a stoplight about a mile from home.
I pulled up behind and to the right, since I didn't feel like a "challenge" so close to my turn-off. We both waited for the light to change, and I could see him checking me out in his right rearview.
He kept blipping the throttle, and easing out the clutch with each blip, lurching his bike forward. Guess he was "gonna show me" when the light turned green.
Just one problem.....he hadn't shifted down to first! :rofl:
Oh, make that TWO problems...the light turned green, he revs his Connie, pops the clutch and immediately stalls it. Unfortunately for him, he was so ready to go squid on me, when he stalled, both feet were already off the ground and on his pegs.
So right there, right in front of me, not six feet away, Billy Bonehead stalls his brand-new Connie, falls over on his right side and wipes out the right bag, that MONSTROUS muffler, right rearview, and about $1500 worth of tupperware.
We're surrounded by traffic, he's picking up pieces of his brand new Kaw and throwing them in the median strip and there I sit on my streetfighter, laughing like a 12 year old.
Gawd, you can't pay for this kind of entertainment!
Just finished up a carb overhaul on my ZRex and thought I'd go hoolie-mode for a while.
Went for a short drive that turned in to a long one. Don't they always?
Coming back home, about 3 miles from my house, I'm winding down out of hoolie-mode and putting along the 4 lane around 60 when a guy with brand new ATTGATT astride a brand new C-14 comes ripping past me. It was SO new, it still had plastic on the seat and a 2 day old dealer tag.
Since I wasn't completely out of character, I decided to give chase. Caught up with him at a stoplight about a mile from home.
I pulled up behind and to the right, since I didn't feel like a "challenge" so close to my turn-off. We both waited for the light to change, and I could see him checking me out in his right rearview.
He kept blipping the throttle, and easing out the clutch with each blip, lurching his bike forward. Guess he was "gonna show me" when the light turned green.
Just one problem.....he hadn't shifted down to first! :rofl:
Oh, make that TWO problems...the light turned green, he revs his Connie, pops the clutch and immediately stalls it. Unfortunately for him, he was so ready to go squid on me, when he stalled, both feet were already off the ground and on his pegs.
So right there, right in front of me, not six feet away, Billy Bonehead stalls his brand-new Connie, falls over on his right side and wipes out the right bag, that MONSTROUS muffler, right rearview, and about $1500 worth of tupperware.
We're surrounded by traffic, he's picking up pieces of his brand new Kaw and throwing them in the median strip and there I sit on my streetfighter, laughing like a 12 year old.
Gawd, you can't pay for this kind of entertainment!