So there i am stood on the hard shoulda of the M5 kicking the hell out of a bent jockey wheel, how the hell did i get here?....... november 2003, nowt on tv, channel hopping when WHAM! billy connelly tearing down some ozzy beach on a purple trike. i must admit my youth was cut short by the arrival of my first born then 2yrs later twins, so i missed out on quite a bit of fun. Motorbikes never really appealed to me but this Trike thingy, yeah i`ll av some of that, and the mrs liked it too (but thats another story).
So where do you get a trike? scoured the local corner shop for the usual selection of bike mags and drew a blank, then i discovered BSH, oh it had articals on bikes but it also featured trikes and it had a for sale section too. A couple of issues later and there she was, Kawasaki KZ1100, 2yr old and 2 owners.
Straight on the phone i get......`sorry` she says `hes not here, but i`ll tell him you rang`. i leave my number and wait and wait and wait for hours and no call back.
Next day and i ring again `hes away all week, but i told him your keen and he says you got first refusal`
That week seemed like a month, but finally it ended and after borrowing a mates Transit van and hiring a trailer off we set to liverpool to buy a trike that i knew nothing about and had only seen 1 photo of. well as they say, a fool n his money, so an hour later and i`m the proud owner of a Trike.
All the way home i`m thinkin "i`ll never ride it, i never even had a scooter before ". yes i did test ride before handin over my hard earnt, and i stalled it 4 times lol.
After a few nervous trips round the block and not gettin out of 1st gear i decided the only way to learn was to go for it, so in the cold month of feb 2004 `the bitch` as she had now become known was my regular ride to n from work, and slowly but surely i learned how to ride a trike.
Since then the only thing i have done is replace the rear lights with (wait for it andy) maltese cross ones and lubricate the clutch cable which was stupidly stiff.
And now i`m totally hooked, as is the mrs. After enjoying trips on the back of `the bitch` i decided to get her a trike of her own, but thats a different story.