flat tyre on the A40 and thanks

tripe · Post by **tripe** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:41 pm

just pulling away from lights at White city at 8 this morning and think handling gone haywire. 5 bikes overtake not a sausage from any of them. Astra man though pulls alongside and hoots and points at back tyre. Pull over and bent mother of all nails has gone in and made a hole out air fizzing out merrily.
So much for looking out for our own!
During the two hour wait for pick up see black S with blazing HID approaching and whizz past with a waive. Two minutes later its Julian riding back on the pavement to check I'm okay. Thank you Julian for coming back I really am grateful and thanks for the offer of a lift too.

Henry

PS five minutes after you left a silver S with HID went flying up the offside lane was that a trixster? Intense concentration on a wet road rendered me invisible?

Ade B · Post by **Ade B** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:57 pm

silver S wasn't me (not that you suggested it was)... don't have HID.

Might be worth carrying a repair kit - I've managed a couple of successful roadside repairs using the BMW rubber bung ensemble - certainly beats sitting at the side of the road...

Once waited 5 hours for recovery with the Vespa - everytime I called they were 1/2 hour away... Another time during a 3 hour wait on the hard shoulder of the M25 (attempted repair failed) half a dozen or so bikers pulled over to see if all was well..

I guess its a central london thing.. obviously had I been passing, I would have stopped

Ade

tripe · Post by **tripe** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:46 pm

I do indeed carry a repair kit but the bent nail had made a good gash going in and then an adjacent hole as it came partially out. a real fish hook effect. Its good to know that many of us do indeed stop. my favourite being when I found an out of petrol HD rider pushing his chrom steed up a narrow, steep part of the Fosse Way. I thought he was about to have a heart attack, he must have pushed it half a mile at least. I felt most saintly returning 20 minutes later with a reviving gallon of petrol.

Ade forgot to say in the chaos of the other week how sorry I was that your wife didn't win the sushi competition. I hope she enters again for next year,

Henry

Ade B · Post by **Ade B** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:25 pm

No worries, we are still enjoying the spoils.. although tickets to Japan would've gone down a treat... as would the crate of beer

She would enter it irrespective of placing - its a hobby bordering on habit!

We are absolutely definitely going to drop by at some point in the near future - Cara is determined, so it'll probably happen.

Ade.

julian · Post by **julian** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:49 pm

Hello Tripe - glad you got sorted in the end.

It took a few seconds to register what /who / why the Aerostiched Henry was standing where he was.

I see the mystery-silver-HID-S-man on a regular basis.