Hooray for Rates Man! Oops, now it's gone a bit crappy.

Yes. Hooray for rates man when he came to see the workshop he said I was
exempt from non-domestic rates and I could ignore the bill (£800) they'd
just sent out.

So with a glad song in my heart and good will to all men; women and
charidee stuff I ran a pedestrian over.

Arse.

She stepped into the road in front of ugly MZ with a large bag of rice on
her shoulder and both of us went down. She lay screaming; moaning and
looking a bit worrying.

MZ pretty much unscathed [1], road badly damaged. My helmet fucked [2].
I think I'm going to be in pain later.

Ambulance turned up and took Missy to hospital. Dibbles breathylised me
and took witness statements which traffic police chap will give me
tomorrow when he takes my statement.

He indicated witnesses had said I wasn't going fast; that she stepped in
front of me and had had a large bag of rice on her shoulder so "shouldn't
be a problem". Although, worryingly lots of witnesses offered their
details to her but not me.

It looked quite arty with an MZ spewing fuel in there as well (crap phone
photo alert): http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/acc261104/photos/photo6.jpg

Bit of a pisser about my only (legal) running bike [3] being disabled and
shelling out for a new helmet before Christmas. Oh well.


[1] Footpeg, F/Mudguard, headlamp trim, handlebars and rear rack twisted.
[2] Not bad though; five years and three crashes. VFM.
[3] Turbo waiting exhaust; Guzzi waiting clutch work (goes but is
exciting); all others waiting tax and MOT's

 

sweller wrote

I have an MZ for sale, or a fucking loan if I fucking have to.

 

Caramba! Bad luck mate. I have a spare guzzi clutch *somewhere* in the
garage if that helps.

 

@news.individual.net:

Hmmm, BBQ opportunity? "Hot fried rice with pedestrian rissole"

 

Another kamikaze ped? It's not infectious, is it?

Oh, and good luck getting it all sorted.

 

It's the flywheel I'm after. Mine is notched after 100K+.

Has the interesting effect of making the clutch *suddenly* engage. I
think I'll be changing the head bearings soon too.

 

tallbloke bored us all completely to death with wittery prose along the
lines of:

I'd be able to knock up a decent curry with the rice. Did you manage to
pick some up?

 

Eww, sounds nasty.
Glad you're okay.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

I can't do anything without some style-slave trying to out-do me, can
I?

 

Hey, this is my fucking second and yours wasn't with rice.

 

****. Next time make sure you do it when you're in the van.

 

I was going to say: "I *bet* she was Asian!" until I recalled that The
Doctor and I regularly buy rice in 10kg or even 20kg sacks.

 

it's my second two, sort-of - I fucked the CD200 last Winter when a
ped ran out in front of me, though I didn't actually hit them.

And the recent one was carrying a tray of condoms, lucky heather and
other assorted shite...

 

You didn't help her marketing efforts, did you.

 

I'm torn between two jokes.

 

Heh. I suspect they'd both be funnier if I left them for someone else.

 

go on, try both (hint: I think Cane's reading this shit at the moment)

 

snip

Sue the gormless cow


--
Nidge
ZX6R J2 Stunning in zit yellow. KX 125 MX 'I'm snot green -fly ME'. A few
bits of CB500S in Norwegian Parrot blue. BOTAFOT#63 BOMB#5

'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'.
Homer (Simpson).

 

Hmm. Dunno where there's a good 850 flywheel, but I'll ask around.

 

tallbloke says...

Loads of Reliant Robins and old Minis in scrappies around here.