bledubd

I am a very demoralised man and have been since I came over to the isle of man about 2 months ago. The source of my agony is that I am on this great island but not with my bike. And to add insult to injury my beloved has been chained to some rotting steel frame so that its not nicked.

I'd have loved to follow the TT route. But instead I am stuck in Douglas with no where to go unless if I have to get on the bus or hire a car. But I can't bring myself to do that. So I am hoping that...

Yesterday as I was going to buy my bike tyres, I witnessed a fresh accident scene. Damn, I had seen the biker just a couple of seconds earlier. Thankfully though the biker was not injured badly, but the bike was worse off as was the cager bumper.

From the looks of it the accident was caused by a cager who was coming out of a parking slot. The twat must not have seen my fellow biker because the car was parked on the left side of the road but facing the direction of the incoming bike....

I am happy with my commuting since I got my Fazer 600. The only other problem I have had so far was when I was failing to properly hold my clutch. I think that day I stalled the bike about 3 or 4 times such that I was now very slow on the take off at traffic signals.

I usually use the A40 Western Avenue to go home but today I thought I would use the A4. I can safely say that I will not be using that route very often. Of course you ride past scenic places like Harods and the like but...

Ok, on the first work day for the Fazer, it did not account itself very well. Just less than 100metres from home the bloody thing decided to just switch off. I had to push it back home and by the time I got there I was sweating like a dog.

Seeing that I did not fancy going to the train, I had to grab the manual and try to figure out what was the problem. I was getting a fault code 33 on the 'dash board'. I then left it running after going round the block for a bit. After that the...