timmy wrote:Excellent tale, SS, and well written! Having been in rainstorms on a MC, your description allowed me to relive the experience (with a shiver, and recalling pouring about a liter of water out of each of my cowboy boots...).
Timmy, apart from mastering the art of getting wet under waterproof clothes I have also become a pseudo entomologist; i can identify bugs and butterflies from their pulp on my helmet visor.
I am glad you enjoyed reading it.. Apart from gulping down those large ones at Abhijeet's house gatherings, this has been my first meaningful contribution to IFG!
Vikram wrote:MARKIV (read it backwards and tell me
)
......Thank you for the lovely report. I chuckled a good few times. I could see that you were enjoying writing it.
I read it a few times before I could believe it!
I did thoroughly enjoy writing it and I have to confess the response on this thread had me in splits.. they are absoutely hilarious.. apart from that picture of me on the Triumph shooting bad guys...that's me ..unadulterated
Grumpy wrote:I thought it was going to be another story of the hopelessness of British motorcycles for a while ....
Grumps, it would have been just that had I decided to go on a Royal Enfield instead of the Triumph. The RE would have been symbolically apt, both the Revolver and the motorcycle would have been century old designs (well, almost!) reminiscent of the British era and still loved and hated by all of us at the same time. I know of few other companies that can sell unreliability and breakdowns as the ''soul of the motorcycle" while the reliable workhorses of the Japanese kind are called soulless. It's obvious which category I got sold on
. They've launched the Thunderbird in India as a competitor to the Harley Fatobobs/boys.
I don't think Vikram's ever getting over that reincarnation information going public..
ckkalyan wrote: Motorcycling in the rain, it is a definitely recommended experience
Let's put this this way.. it you are into motorcycling, the rain is an inevitable experience! But seriously though, I do agree. Riding in the rain has its own excitement. The trick is to ride on and hope to leave the clouds behind!
Prashant, if I had ready your RFI leopard report first, this thread would have never seen the light of the day. I am absolutely hooked to that. Glad you enjoyed reading this..
xl_target wrote: Wonderful AAR (After Action Report) by our own Agent SS (Secret Service)....
I am going to use the old skill I acquired across the border while in Chinese captivity- Shameless Plagiarism.
From hereon, for yours truly, the name will be S.... AgentDoubleS
.............As we all know, secret service jargon is full of acronyms..........
timmy wrote: XL, it was undoubtedly necessary to roll open the throttle once or twice, while dealing with dangerous, shadowy figures!
Just to clarify... AgentDoubleS would never run away from danger
.. it was just to dodge those nasty bullets Rajnikant style..
xl_target wrote: Here's another shot of our SS in action. On his Triumph with his MARKIV revolver.
Xl, the KGB released that to you, didn't they?! National security's compromised.
And in case people here missed it, I'm looking in that left rear view mirror as i shoot that 'dangerous, shadowy figure!"
Thank you gentlemen, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the responses
Signing off...
S....AgentDoubleS
