GTS OWNERS CLUB

Maver · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 8:45 pm Post subject:

how in the sweet mother of jesus did that happen?

rider spontaniously combust?
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Innocenti · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:

ahhh them good old exahusts blowing !!!! can i have his seat frame please Wink

Niffy · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject:

Better watch , that front tyre looks dodgey.
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Nyle · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject:

Here is the story
"Madrid, Spain (still)
Well it appears that while I was out watching some spanish jerk sticking it to a bull another was sticking it to my vespa. Walked outside this morning to see the extra crispy remains of my GTS.

Awesome eh! Oh well it was a shitty day for riding anyway.

I've just spent the last hour or so in a madrid police station filing my report and learning spanish on the fly. As I was filling in the paperwork all I could think about was how nice the pen they loaned me was. I was dripping wet and whole situation was pretty surreal.

The plastic on my GTS made a fantastic accelerant that severely damaged a nice original vespa T5 next to me. To be honest I think the sight of that upset me more than my own bike.

I'm trying to remain philosophical about it all really. The local police station was plastered with posters of the missing girl Madeleine so things could have been been infinitely crappier. This is not quite the conclusion I had in mind for this trip but at least didn't end up under a spanish taxi eh?

Now I did bring a few spare parts for the bike, however I really wasn’t anticipating needing so many. So now that plan A has gone up in toxic fumes I'm now accepting ideas for plan B. If anyone has any please feel free to place them in the suggestion box.

Me? I'm off to do the only logical thing at this point: Beer and tapas!

One high note was I achieved the Mt Everest of phone conversations earlier. In my kiwi accent I was able to convey my insurance company name "Internationaal Motorrijtuigverzekeringsbewijs" to a non-english speaking policeman.

So with a few pints of horrendous spanish beer in me all i'm worried about now is that Motorrijtuigverzekeringsbewijs doesn't literally translate into motor-insurance-for-everything-but-blitzkrieg-by-fire.

PS: it's pissing with rain here in madrid so all I want to say is Professor Higgins you are full of shit about the rain in spain."

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