I started out with a Ducati 900 sport, it doesn't have the Marchesini 5 spoke wheels or upgraded suspension like the ss, which is the 2002 model but found in a desert somewhere, with kpm clocks, in 2009.Prelude.
After pacing up and down for a couple of weeks, contemplating whether I should spend £4500 on a brand new Ducati 900, Chris (a mate at work) told me to go and buy the bloody thing, he had obviously had enough of me thinking about it an not doing something.
So off up north, on a bus, I went and after a quick drive in the taxi of Phil and Jill we picked up my new steed.
When I got there, like a child at Christmas, I took some photo's paid the cash and with the warning of "don't ride in the wet on new tyres", rode out of the bike shop. Soon after the fuel light came on :( so I stopped and filled her up. When I got back to my bike it had already started raining.
While riding down the M6 towards Birmingham the black clouds loomed and I was looking for a way out. On spotting Buxton, a place I am sure I had been before (but couldn't remember) or was it water I had drank, I was sure this would be a good short cut.
Don't do it, if you are ever tempted, as in the wet on new tyres these are not the roads you want to ride a new bike home on, no matter how good it is for your glutes.
Needless to say I got her home but tired and weary I was.
