! "IT WASN'T MY F A U L T" !

Chatting to a biker a while back, my old riding buddy Jim was on his Paris Dakar 1000GS re-fuelling when a sport bike pulled up behind him at the fuel pumps. 

Race-rep-man says’ “They’re good those old Beemers with all the metal luggage and stuff. Whats it go like?”

Jim says, “It gets me from here to Morocco and back no bother, but it can be a bit tricky when loaded up”.

Race man says, “Have you dropped it?”

Jim says, “Only when stationary, getting it off the centre stand, but then I’ve dropped every bike I’ve ever owned at some time or other, usually when loaded”.

Race man; “Why couldn’t you hold it up”?

Jim, “Have you ever held a fully loaded bike, with 7 gallons of fuel in it, and have your foot slip on diesel or gravel”?

Race rep, “No, but I dropped my last bike a couple of weeks ago. This is a spare while i wait for the insurance. I was having a really good progressive ride but as I came off the motorway I hit a very uneven patch of road surface which caused me to lose it and the bike slammed into a Volvo estate at the top of the slip. Bloody road maintenance”.

Jim, “What speed were you doing when you got the wobble”?

Race rep, “Well I left the motorway at about 140 but I was just below 100 when I hit the ruts. Anyway, I might get a GS when I’m an old geezer”.

Jim, “I doubt you will”.

Race rep, “No, seriously, I like GS’s”

Jim, “No, I meant you won’t ever be an old geezer”.

Cheery wave and off Jim went.

I wonder if the Race replica man got it?