An email from a dear friend…..
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Hey babe!
So how’s ewe? I was reading you blog and noticed that folks are starting to realize that you ride. well here’s a story that might be blog worthy. Please edit at will, and there is a part where I need input……
Samantha, what can I say….. All I remember is that here was this sheepish little girl, looking at her boots, ( yes, heels even then, kids) outside a motorcycle dealership in Calgary looking to buy a motorcycle. We got to talking, she told me what she wanted, I advised her on her options, and then she went in and bought something too small. “Too small?” you ask? No, not in stature, but in power. She had made the classic mistake of thinking she would not take to this sport and got herself a “learner” sport-bike, a piddley little Kawasaki Ninja (if I can use that term here, considering the displacement) 250. Yes folks, a 250. Which she promptly BLEW UP. Ooos and Awws ensued, until the dealer finally decided to give the Loud Girl associated with local radio a credit on perhaps a larger displacement machine. Which just so happened to be………..( insert bike here, I forget…..). Many weeks of joyful riding went buy until she saw what she knew she always wanted, her true love. A Real SPORTSBIKE! A suzuki GSX-FRICKIN-R600, cheep! in the bike trader! Joy of Joys! Well, we went and looked at that badboy and she needed to have it (at this point in her life, Sam was quite single……). So she ponies up the cash, gets her new baby and she and I promptly get on with teaching her how to do wheelies. Note to the reader, Big sexy boots with Heels are not really the best things to pull big monos with……. just saying…. Anyhoo, I doubt that she was ever into big one wheel action (insert your own joke here) but I know that she loved FAST. Just ask the Calgary cops, I know we got pulled WAY more times than we got tagged. Good thing she had a cute smile, I blame it on her.
Oh yea, Sam, If you ever get back in this end of the country, I think I owe you a rear tire and possibly a drink…. or twelve…….
Your buddy, pal. compadre,
Bill
aka Dizzy
…….ah Billito….how I miss you guys…..I loooove your new bike…..that is my dream ride……maybe next season….use Billito as a bonus code for this weekend.
I won’t be updating my blog this weekend….I’m leaving for Halifax this afternoon. Have a terrific weekend!
Samantha