I just saw the most awesome thing I've ever seen in my life

[I-K]

Scene: Peak hour shitfight on Market St, Sydney, approaching intersection with the turnoff onto the interchange onto the flyovers leading onto the Anzac Bridge.

Me: Lanesplitting on my newly-assembled freshly-acquired blue ZX9. Red-powdercoated frame, black-powdercoated swingarm, black ducktail, black hugger, red front guard, tinted screen, Scorpion pipe, Ohlins rear shock, red-shrink braided lines (pics soon).

Approaching the intersection, I spy something up ahead with a low, skinny arse and even skinnier rear tyre trailing a cloud of blue smoke from a stack of three exhausts down the right side of its tail.

Couldn't be. Couldn't possibly.

Lanesplit extra hard to catch up before the red light up ahead changes and I hop into the same slot in traffic.

It faken is.

A green-with-blue-racestripe Mach IV. Black-powdercoat frame, fresh paint, bikini fairing, cast wheels, replica period rear shocks, reupholstered seat, dual front calipers, still in front of the forklegs, and those triple-stacked custom chambers and carbon stingers.

OMGWTFBBQ!

I lean over and scream in the guy's ear how he's riding the most awesome thing I've ever seen. He proceeds to look over my paltry effort and goes, "Thanks. That there would've taken some work, too." Yeah, like just a rebuild from a bare motor after the frame and swingarm came back from the powdercoater's.

Lights turn green, we give it. I let him get ahead and the just drops it onto the peg turning left under the Darling Harbour footbridge plaza, then picks it up and drops it onto the right peg to take the far exit for Broadway, all while trailing the thickest cloud of the bluest smoke seen anywhere since the last time he commuted on his 35-year-old piece of headbanging two-stroke history.

I can think of at least a half-dozen members on here who I imagine would undergo gender reassignment just so they could have this guy's babies.

Fecking awesome.

[Strika]

Top stuff I-K, let us know when your up the duff mate! It must have been pretyt insane to actually see one on the daily commute! I wonder if it's still a daily ride?

[I-K]

Top stuff I-K, let us know when your up the duff mate!

I kinda had you in mind among the half-dozen, way ahead of myself.

I wonder if it's still a daily ride?

It looked grimy enough for it, but this bloke looked staunch enough to have multiple bikes, which begs the question... what else might be hiding in his shed?

[Neka79]

for a minute there after i read the post thread i thought "the bastards been peaking thru my bathroom window"...then i read that story...


nice..ur a good story teller mate...one of the reasons i love reading this forum...lol

[Gosling1]

Yep, excellent story mate. I bet the heart was racing when you were chasing him !

Seeing these old bikes being used just brings a tear to my eye , tears of joy of course...plus they sound *so* phat when they are *on the pipe* - But I think I might draw the line at gender reassignement

One day..........maybe before Xmas , the H2 in the shed will see the light of day (runs and hides from immediate bagging by mates >20 years )

[ProblemChild]

,that sounds familiar