Re: This made me laugh a bit.

On 2007-08-29, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

You have to factor in the Frontier Spirit and the vast flat plains that go
on forever and petrol that's cheaper than our water.

Frontier Spirit? What's that? Blind bigotry to justify theft and
murder?

It's all a matter of viewpoint.

Quite a lot of US
roads are apparently still dirt or gravel, too, so a two-wheeled tractor
still comes in useful sometimes I expect.

They can be put to use; but I'd've thought a more modern type of design
would be better. I mean, the H-D `basic plan' wasn't a bad thing to be
doing in the 1920s, but techniques have come on since then.

<shrug> HD are clearly getting something right.

[...]

I have a Vespa, still vandalised and immobile from an attempted theft
quite a long time ago.

:-(

I'd offer to fix it if I were in any fit state, but I'm not.

It'll get dealt with eventually, I expect. While I qualify for a
'disabled person' travel card in London there isn't so much incentive.

Ah! (London, unlike most of the country, still has good public
transport, doesn't it?)

Relatively speaking, yes. It's also getting more and more difficult to
park anything 'in town', even a push-bike, without paying through the nose
and/or finding it gone when you get back. (In Westminster it can actually
be cheaper to let your car be impounded than to pay for a car-park; you
just have to retrieve it before they crush it).

I wouldn't hesitate to use it again in London, if
I could get things together enough to get it back on the road. But that's
well down my list of things to do, just now. Getting myself through the
motorcycle test is a pre-requisite before I get a 'real' motorbike of any
sort, but if I ever manage that then an Enfield India is definitely a
possibility. Perhaps even an old diesel model. I'm not 'in' to speed.

There are times when I wish I weren't. Actually, it's not so much the
speed I'm in to as the `making good progress', you know? And okay, I do
like a bit of acceleration.

I think I have a B-road soul.

I wish I did. A lot of things would be less stress.

All I can suggest is lavender joss-sticks, camomile tea, and perhaps tai
chi or yoga exercises. Which I suspect are not really the sort of thing
you're attracted by.

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