Colcam: Chalk and Cheese.

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Chalk and Cheese.

I was in Dundee again yesterday picking up a new bike. The old Vespa ET4 125 was being traded in, so it was one last trip over Drumochter Pass - the poor wee thing was probably delighted about that. She's certainly been around. Northern Ireland, Wick in Northern Scotland, Cumbria and Lancashire in England, North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, plenty other places too.

The new one, a Piaggio X8, is great. Big, comfy and much less tiring on a long trip, and faster, with better cornering. I had a fine run on the 130 miles back up north. Unfortunately I drove it into the back garden as I always did with the Vespa, and don't know how I will get it back out. Not so easy to push backwards and round to face the gate. Oh well, can't think of everything.

The X8.