Author: Buck
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The only thing I knew how to do…
..was to keep on keeping on. To quote Bob Dylan. I’m over my sulk about the bike. There’s always tomorrow. And now I’ve got my new exhaust and I’m back to riding again I love my bike again. One thing I have taken from that Triton, and a professional W650 chop, is to get ‘velocity…
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All the same but different.
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged with one thing and another. As usual it was “be careful what you wish for”. I wanted the Hermes job for some fast bucks (as it were) then ended up doing 70+ hour weeks. Two weeks my top line was over a grand. Yet we still owe as…
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Thrice damned.
Buggery and tarnation. I’ve applied 3 times for jobs at Bookers without even getting an interview. I had some time off, thought I’d focus my chi for the big xmas madness. 12-15 hour shifts, 5 shifts/ 6 shifts all the way through until mid January. Nothing. Not an xmas sausage. I got 4 days last…
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Why so serious?
Just thought I’d better clear something up. We were on about bikes and such the other day, when Wendy said “they think it’s cute, your bike deathwish…” or words to that effect. I don’t have a bike deathwish. I accept that the laws of statistics say that’s probably how I’m going to die and I…
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Bike update
It’s been taking ages and loads of faffing about, but I’m getting there. I finally got my mudguard from Australia, after a week’s delay as they bitchslapped me for import tax then wouldn’t deliver on Wednesday, (when Wendy’s off) and wanted an extra £12 to deliver Saturday. Anyway, I got it. The small back light…