Today I have mostly been using the Falco as a Tow Truck !
Posted: Mon May 24, 2010 11:20 pm
.... and not deliberately ....
First thing this morning I backed the bike out of the garage, shut the door, fired it up and prepared for my usual 3-point turn before heading off to work.
The manoeuvre starts off with a reverse, followed by pulling forward turning to the right.
Today it seemed to be making hard work of the pulling forward part ... it was then that I realised that I'd hitched up the wheelie bin on the reverse ... the Givi rack has a sort of a hook to which a top box can attach ... and it seems that this is just the right height to fit under the lip of a wheelie bin.
Unhitched the bin and I was away .....
At the end of the working day I rode home.
Now I should explain that my youngest son is a brickie and is building me a new wall while he is laid off from work (and a nice job he's making of it).
Well it's a bit of a slalom avoiding piles of bricks and big bags of sand on the drive but usually is without incident.
Tonight, however, I managed to snag one of the lifting loops of a 1 ton bag of sand (nothing like a ton in it any more) on the swingarm bobbin and dragged that along a little way - fortunately, although it tried, it failed to have me off the bike.
Unhitched that one too.
Any more of this and I'll join the caravan and trailer club .......
First thing this morning I backed the bike out of the garage, shut the door, fired it up and prepared for my usual 3-point turn before heading off to work.
The manoeuvre starts off with a reverse, followed by pulling forward turning to the right.
Today it seemed to be making hard work of the pulling forward part ... it was then that I realised that I'd hitched up the wheelie bin on the reverse ... the Givi rack has a sort of a hook to which a top box can attach ... and it seems that this is just the right height to fit under the lip of a wheelie bin.
Unhitched the bin and I was away .....
At the end of the working day I rode home.
Now I should explain that my youngest son is a brickie and is building me a new wall while he is laid off from work (and a nice job he's making of it).
Well it's a bit of a slalom avoiding piles of bricks and big bags of sand on the drive but usually is without incident.
Tonight, however, I managed to snag one of the lifting loops of a 1 ton bag of sand (nothing like a ton in it any more) on the swingarm bobbin and dragged that along a little way - fortunately, although it tried, it failed to have me off the bike.
Unhitched that one too.
Any more of this and I'll join the caravan and trailer club .......
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