This weak in Adelaide. Vol 2 Num 4
Thursday 12 march 2009OK. Moves are afoot to get a new bike and be back on the road and back happening. Faster, stronger, better. And with a big frigging lock!
This will clean out my funds but there is nothing more important than to keep on biking. Let me back track to Tuesday night.
The show was great. I checked on the bike several times and it was still there. The bike was illuminated and not a metre from the front foyer. The staff could see it and knew it was there. It was locked and bolted to the special bike stand things which are cemented into the ground and all that.
Sometime during the last real it vanished. Whoever did it must have either known some trick to getting the lock undone or always walked round tooled up waiting for an opportunity. The girl at the desk turned her back for 5 minutes and it was gone. $1700 bux down the drain just like that.
I reported it to the sharks but I have no expectations of ever seeing my best friend again. And the large Avanti dealer on port road where I bought it from failed to record the serial number of the bike. In fact they told me that they never record the serial number. I'm informed that this is illegal. That they are required to not only record the serial number of every bike they sell but also print it on the invoice. So I couldn't give the serial number to the sharks. But I'm also informed that the chances of getting back a bike stolen in the city is almost zero.
Not to worry, I have another one in the works. I'm also putting together a rat bike. So that if I have to take a risk, I can take a risk with a piece of crap bike rather than the good one. Which is probably just as well since this new one will be several thousand dollars more expensive than the first. Although that cleans out the money I had set aside for film making.
In hindsight, I feel like an idiot. I should have insisted to park it actually in the building. It's not like it would have been a danger to anyone.
My main problem is that it will be over a week between rides which means my muscles will have attrified. It's going to take another week after that to get back to where I left off. And then I have to hope that the weather holds out.
So give me a week and I'll be back pushing down along linear park again.
In the mean time, I should sort out a few other issues while I have the time. Better go catch up with my little China girls.
Nighty Night.
