Des's BMW - mini review

After my test ride on his imaginary R1 [1], I was pleased when Des offered
me a spin on his new BMW. Under the strict French licence laws, all newly
qualified bikers are restricted to an imaginary motorcycle for two years.
Having recently completed this probationary period, Des has now joined the
real world in the form of a BMW K100-LT.

My test ride got off to a bit of a bad start when the bike toppled over
before I could even get on it. The cause of this inbalance was proved to be
poor loading on Des's behalf. He had put all his arrogance in one pannier
and all his humility in the other pannier, thus causing the bike to be
permantely unbalanced - an not unapt state of affairs. After putting his
crucification complex into the neary empty humility pannier the bike felt
safer, if still not extactly stable

Having hauled the bike upright, I set off on my way. I was somewhat
perturbed to find that the front brake lever had been removed - Des later
told me this was for safety reasons - and I was grateful that french
motoring laws are farily relaxed about running over pedestrians.

In order to fully assess the bike I took it for over a mile long spin and
was delighted to find no major faults. Obviously the electrics, fuel pump,
rear shock and ABS all packed in during the ride but Des assured me that
this was perfectly normal for a bike of this sort and that the dealer would
shortly be fixing the faults - just as soon as Des could find out where he
had moved to.

So to summarise this is a robust sporty motorcycle that is let down by a few
niggling faults such as starting, stopping and not wobbling all over the
fucking place.

[1]
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g...=br44mf$27c1hl$-berlin.de

 

I wish someone would stop changing my settings. "h" is in fact me.

 

E-mail dog and ask him what his missus has been up to.


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

flash@work replied to "h" who wrote

SNIP

No, I'm h
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I'm Spartacus!

 

"Slider" said to "Donegal Paul" who said to flash@work replied to "h" who
wrote

That's that thread fucked then
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www.thepilgrimssc.co.uk
www.a4c.co.uk - What are YOU doing?

 

And so's my wife.

 

Then I read whattallbloke wrote in the next message

And it still made sense. Sort of.

Johannes

 

It was a *good* morning