Photo's & Stories.
In this section I’ll be
showing you some pictures from my bike, and some stories that come with them.
This shot is taken at a parking
lot, which is situated at the road between Schaarsbergen and Hoenderloo.
You'll notice I still have
the original exhausts; this is fine for me, and my neighbours, because I have
to go to work early, to be precise at 4 a.m. in the morning.
I don't think you'll like
the rumbling sound from race-pipes at that time in the morning!
You'll see the luggage rack
looks a bit silly, but you can tie an elephant to it, looks even sully to me,
but is handy for those vacations, or long trips.
I now ride with DUNLOP
D207 tires, great for long trips, they don't wear off so easily, and do a
great job at high performance rides, great in wet times.
This shot was taken during
the KNMV
herfstnachtrit 1998.
A nice trip, about 650 km's
long, during the night.
This is because there's
little traffic at this time, but we had very bad weather and poor visibility.
The police wasn't happy
about our driving style; around Lelystad he drove around a roundabout the wrong
way to gain on us, and pulled over a couple of guys, we were travelling at a
speed of 120kmh at a traject where 80kmh is allowed.
He next pulled over a old
Moto Guzzi with sidecar on the middle of the road, whilst a group of over 30
motorbikes came blazing towards the scene, and everybody had to make an
emergency stop, now this is what I call a stupid cop!
Later on, in the restaurant
on the first stop, he wanted to speak to the organization of the trip, to call
it off, but when he was told the guys were in Arnhem, he dropped off very
quickly, haahaa.
I would thank the guy with
the Moto Guzzi with sidecar for his guidance through this trip.
This is the reason, I
bought a road book from Nébe Velp (GLD), it's great for those long trips,
and will fit almost perfectly between the windshield's ends.
In April I went to
the 24heurs of Le Mans, man is this weird and wild.
24 Hours those
Frenchmen/women wrenching those throttle of their bikes, till they explode
their mufflers, even communicating with each other on this way!
In May/June I went to the Isle
of Man races, where
I took some pictures.
This shot was taken at
Heysham Campground, the night before the ferry-ride to Douglas.
Here you can see me,
sitting on one of those silly chairs.
You'll notice the way, how
the side bags are fitted to the bike, the red one has still the tie-downs
around the bags.
By the way, those guys in
Great Britain have real strange things, for instance this campground is
situated in the backyard of a nuclear power station, still not glowing in the
dark however!
Here the bikes stand rest
at a road on the Isle of Man, the red one was owned by a cousin of mine, he
traded it in for a Bandit 1200, I had a ride on it before I bought mine.
The rides I had on the Isle
of Man were great, flying at speeds of 190kmh on these bumpy roads, you'll be
airborne at some times, specially on the road too Peel that runs along the west
coast.
Here's a marshal flying
through Ballaugh Bridge on a Honda VTR 1000 Firestorm Anniversary.
Just add some carbon and
chrome and two of those Honda 50th birthday stickers and 3-bhp squeezed out,
and pay just ₤955 more, and voila there you have a nice bike (See also
the July 1998 of BIKE magazine).