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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3050 on: December 03, 2022, 10:30:42 PM »
With that done, we went via bus and Metro to explore Paris for six days, using our guide books. I felt somewhat glad then, that Mirrabooka had broken down; since, looking at that mad traffic, I think we would have been run over... and if that had happened, I would not now be writing this. With our own transport gone, we felt strangely alone. 'Mirra' had been one third of the team and now she was turning into just a memory - with memories of other breakdowns - only then, they had been happening in front of some garage or an engineering workshop, along with tools to effect repairs. The bulk of our travel had taken place well-away from main roads and the tourist beat, with little or no help available. Many were the times we had come out of rough country into a town, before 'Mirra' decided it was time for repairs.
Fuji had been on and off with us and I couldn't blame them; they probably regarded us as two wayward scooter nomads but they could not have possibly known of the adventures we had.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3051 on: December 04, 2022, 12:10:41 PM »
On our arrival in Melbourne, we were approached by a man wanting to buy our scooter. He was a collector and had been trying to get hold of our model for his collection. We told him we would think about it, because it was booked through to Brisbane and could not be off-loaded in Melbourne.
Keith and I discussed the offer. We had intended to take it home and recondition it ourselves, but back home the picture had changed - we both had to start work. We asked ourselves, when would we get time to work on the scooter? The answer became clear: we should take the offer.
Keith immediately went back to work, while I decided to do something different and finished up working for a timber company. I then got married and the scooter became only a memory. It had served us well but reality can be very blunt... and it was time to let it go. Going to a new owner who was a collector, it would have a dignified retirement.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3052 on: December 04, 2022, 04:17:06 PM »
Thank you for taking the time and putting up these stories Biggles, I look forward to them each day.   :thumb
 

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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3053 on: December 04, 2022, 06:57:30 PM »
Me too. 
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3054 on: December 05, 2022, 02:47:04 PM »
Riding in heavy traffic, as I dimly recall, was nightmare, not only in view of the dangerous brakes, the non-working forks and the flat-feeling rear tyre, but because the clutch - and subsequent gear-change - had a mind of its own. The engine idled like a bagful of live chickens, and the clutch refused to disengage fully when changing gears. Selecting first gear from a standing start was an acquired art, for you would either stall the engine or, if you opened the throttle wide enough, the bike would leap away snapping your neck like a frozen carrot. If the traffic hadn't moved very far, and you had to stop again, you would then have to reef on the front brake lever with every ounce of strength you possessed, at the same time as you gently caressed the rear brake pedal. [Describing the 1972 Ural outfit.]
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3055 on: December 06, 2022, 03:50:49 PM »
A piston in a high-performance modern-day motorcycle engine produces its peak power at around 12,000 RPM, a speed unheard of with Jack's 500cc single-cylinder Norton, which produced its peak power of 50-odd BHP at around 7,500rpm. If the bore x stroke measurements of our modern multi-cylinder sports machine are, say, 70mm x 65mm, that piston flies frantically down and back up again on that 65mm journey at peak engine revs no fewer than 200 times every second!
With a connecting rod length of, say, 120mm, the maximum speed that piston will accelerate to at peak engine revs occurs at around 40mm, just after halfway down the stroke, with the angle of the con-rod, relative to the gudgeon pin, effectively 'shortened'. At that time, and at a fraction of a second after igniting the new charge, the piston will be travelling at the incredible speed of around 30 meters per second; or 1800 meters a minute, which is more than 100km per hour. That's a piston flashing from zero to lOOkm/hour plus in around 40mm, and in the tiniest fraction of a second!
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3056 on: December 07, 2022, 11:05:09 AM »
Naturally, the footboards fitted to these differing motorcycles were usually hinged where mounted to the frames, so that they would neatly fold up when cornering exuberantly; that is, if the rider of such a machine was that way inclined, which is unlikely.
These types of 'footrests' always seemed to provide a much more secure platform on which to rest our long-suffering feet, and they also allowed much more freedom in moving our feet about on a long ride, thus adding even more to our comfort. They were also much more secure when we stood upon them to ease the pressure on our often badly numbed backsides. This was even more pronounced in wet conditions, a boon not always available the riders of machines fitted with rubber-covered footrests, the rubbers usually too slippery in the wet to allow us to safely indulge in this entirely pleasurable pursuit of easing the pain of a long, hard ride. Scooter riders have long enjoyed the feeling of moving their feet about almost at random, and easing the weight off their backsides - or front sides for that matter - but probably without knowing it unless they had ridden a motorcycle equipped with a set of ordinary footrests.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3057 on: December 08, 2022, 11:00:01 AM »
"You're mad!!" he suddenly shouted, "Maaddddd!!"
"Wyzatt?"
"I wanted to get off! Off! Didn't go hear me shouting Whoa! Whoa!"
"No, I thought you were shouting Wow! Wow!"
"Wow! Wow!" he barked again. "What are you, deaf or something? Gees, I thought we were gone. You fell off the bloody thing before we'd gone a hundred yards!"
"No, I didn't fall off it," I corrected him, "I couldn't hold it up when we stopped, that's all."
"That's all? You couldn't hold it up and then you ride the ring off it like you'd gone crazy or something. Geez, I cant believe you mate." He shook his head and glared at me as he ran his fingers through his hair.
"I didn't fall off it," I corrected him again, "It's too hard for me to hold it up. But when it moves away you can do anything with it. Its a fantastic handler and it stops on nothing. Do you still reckon I can't ride it?" I asked him innocently.
"I don't care if you ride it. I don't care if you set fire to the bloody thing, I don't care if you shove it up your arse!" he shouted, as he flung his helmet onto a small lounge chair and stormed, stiff-legged, into the store's toilet. I noticed a hand tugging the crotch of his trousers while he flicked first one leg, then the other behind him as he made his exit on the tips of his toes. He seemed to be in there for some time, but when he shyly returned, I thought I ought to quietly disappear and not to ask him if he was alright.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3058 on: December 08, 2022, 02:24:44 PM »
That is priceless!
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3059 on: December 08, 2022, 03:42:30 PM »
Thanks Biggles, I love a good Lester yarn. I used to enjoy his column in Two Wheels years ago.
 

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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3060 on: December 09, 2022, 09:26:46 PM »
We were introduced to the audience and the announcer then asked the police officer, who was apparently a member of the road safety bureau in the traffic branch, if he had ever ridden a motorcycle himself.
"If I had my way, those things would be banned from the roads," he curtly replied, to our great dismay, the while glaring at me as though daring me to answer his unwarranted reply. The announcer was clearly taken aback, but bugger him, I thought.
"And why would you make such as suggestion, Sergeant?" I asked him politely. "Have you never ridden a motorcycle yourself?"
He stuffed his credibility immediately by his haughty reply. "No, I have not," he trumpeted, "and I have no desire to ever do so."
"Then you don't know what you're missing," I assured him. "I have ridden hundreds of motorcycles during my career in the trade, as well as professionally road testing many machines for a variety of specialist publications. It could thus be argued that I might know a whole lot more of what I am talking about than you do. I say that with the greatest respect, of course, sir."
"Those things are dangerous," he countered. "Everyone knows that."
"Well, I never knew that, so I thank you for the information," I replied, with what I trust was well concealed sarcasm. "But there are many salient features about a motorcycle which makes the vehicle clearly less dangerous than a motorcar. I will list them if you like."
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3061 on: December 10, 2022, 04:54:10 PM »
From nowhere, that incident reminded me of the ex-Brit Brian Stansfield, who was riding a 500cc single-cylinder G80S Matchless in the first 'Redex Trial' for motorcycles in 1954. He was managing the showroom at A.P. North, the motorcycle agency which was the marque's importers at the time, and where I was working some months after the event. I was chatting to him one morning over a quiet coffee as we were discussing the odd flora and fauna for which our nation was so famous internationally. He told me the only time he had ever seen a kangaroo was when one of them bounded out of the nearby bushes during one of the Redex Trial's more difficult off-road sections and plucked him straight out the saddle of the bike! It didn't touch the bike at all, he said, it simply lifted him off the machine, dumped him on the ground, wrestled around with him for a few seconds and then bounded away to leave him to his own devices. He said he was able to catch his breath after a while, before he climbed painfully onto his machine and rode away, out of contention in the event, but at least more or less still in one piece.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3062 on: December 11, 2022, 12:19:09 PM »
It has always seemed to me to be an extremely odd exercise to display the advertisement in a car's rear window announcing the fact that there is a 'Baby on Board', a sign which fairly jumps out at one as you zoom up to the imposing SUV ahead. Are we to suppose that the message tells us the driver of that over-sized vehicle might be taking extra care now, simply because of the recent arrival of the new babe? One might suppose, in fact hope, that driver of the vehicle in question would exercise the same care when travelling about this nation's roads whether there was a new-born in the vehicle or not.
Or perhaps the sign has been placed in position to please ask other road users to give that vehicle a wider berth than normal for some reason, or perhaps to refrain from running into the car, simply because of the 'Baby on Board'.
Perhaps the driver of which we speak might be keeping more than a weather eye on the little one, and not enough attention to the road, relying the assistance of that little notice, allied to the skill of other road users, to keep well clear of the large baby carriage?
Is the 'Baby' sign prominently placed in the fond hope that there naturally follows a form of Divine Protection once the Deity has been advised that someone has been clever enough, or dumb enough, to have brought a young life into this world? Even the dumbest of the dumb can become parents with just a little effort and some reckless abandon.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3063 on: December 12, 2022, 02:17:29 PM »
For example, I am quite sure that a sign with the legend 'Sudden U-Turner' displayed in a car's rear window would be handy for everyone who is mounted upon a two-wheeler, but by the time one is close enough to read the sign, the party concerned might already be halfway through the manoeuvre anyway.
What about the sign, 'I Am a Non-Blinking Lane Changer' used as an early warning, particularly for riders of a range of fairly high-powered scooters who might be approaching the miscreant up ahead? But it, like the previous sign, would need to have letters printed upon it which would be large enough to read from about 50 metres behind if it were to be in any way effective.
'I Never Look In My Mirrors' or, as an alternative, 'Maladjusted Mirrors' should be of great concern to any approaching motorcycle rider, while a window sticker bearing the legend 'Don't See Motorcyclists', or, alternatively 'I Never Look For Motorcyclists', or 'Boofhead behind the Wheel' - which should sell, or be issued, by the truckload - should be of great interest, and not only to those who prefer two-wheeled transport.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3064 on: December 13, 2022, 11:24:18 AM »
Unseen by me the large BMW Cruiser, with menacing and odd-looking, 'cantilever' front-end rolled up while we were filming interior shots, and the First Assistant Director (breathlessly) asked me if I was sure I could ride a motorcycle, and to come and have a look at the monster which had just arrived.
"Piece of cake," I assured him, as I donned the helmet proffered by the BMW rep who had ridden the machine to the set. "Hop on the back," I demanded, as someone handed him a spare lid.
Of course, I was forced to move away from the spot with some alacrity while he clung fearfully to me, the while wringing out every last ounce of the air I had recently acquired by squeezing his large arms around my ribcage with the strength of a mature boa constrictor. I took him for a quiet squirt up the road, round a tight roundabout and back again, then returned to execute a couple of tight figure-eight feet-up turns in front of the frankly admiring assemblage.
I was rewarded for this display by a spontaneous round of applause and noted that the pillion passenger, whom I could see in the rear vision mirror, gave the thumbs up sign to the director who, until then frankly couldn't believe a little bloke like me could fling a monster like a BMW Cruiser around with such seemingly reckless abandon.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3065 on: December 14, 2022, 01:40:15 PM »
My dream was to travel around the world. I cannot tell you where the dream came from or when it began, but it seems it has been with me forever. In 1989, at the age of forty-one I learned how to ride a motorcycle and that was the beginning of my travels in North America. Each summer from 1990 onward I did a two to four week trip on my bike. By the end of year 2000 I had traveled in forty-one states of America and all ten provinces in Canada. North America is a wonderful place to travel with landscapes so diverse and spectacular one can never tire of its beauty. I just could not seem to get enough. Everywhere I went people were wonderful and I felt perfectly safe. Up to this point most of my travels were with other people- sometimes one friend, other times a group of friends, and many times family members who ride motorcycles.
The more places I discovered the more my thoughts about traveling around the world grew.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3066 on: December 15, 2022, 04:52:21 PM »
What is my first impression of Australia? It feels great to be out without a winter coat and boots. Everything is green with flowers in full bloom. I especially notice all the roses. The buildings are of Victorian style architecture, many built in the 1800's and early 1900's. It's wonderful to see the preservation of these beautiful structures. The passenger side of the car is on the left and people drive like maniacs. Pedestrians look out for their own safety and do not assume the right of way. Maybe that is how it should be. I have to listen very intently to conversations in order to understand people. Australians have a British style accent that my ear is not accustomed to. I am soon to discover that Melbourne is a very expensive city to live in with a lot of wealth passed down through the generations.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3067 on: December 16, 2022, 11:47:35 AM »
Back at the campground the Galahs are still squawking— the noise is deafening! I retrieve my earplugs from the bike. A short time later, at 8:00 pm, the campground is quiet. I look up in the trees, and yes, the Galahs are still there; they have become completely quiet. I ask some local people about this and am told "don't worry, they'll start again in the morning." Sure enough, before 6:00 am they start singing again.
I am up with the birds, pack up my tent and begin my journey to Uluru in Kata Tjuta National Park. The park is located 450 kilometers southwest of Alice Springs. I stop in Curtain Springs for fuel and breakfast then hit the road again. Today is a short day and I arrive in Yulara (Ayres Rock Resort) before noon. I set up camp before walking to the visitor center for a map of the area and whatever information they can give me.
I ride out to Uluru, more commonly known as Ayres Rock, the world's largest monolith and a sacred site to the Aboriginal people. I stop at the site where visitors are allowed to hike the tough, 1.6 kilometer trail to the top of the rock. I get my hiking boots on, toss my riding jacket across the bike, and head to the base of the Rock. I climb up the first bulge, about 100 meters, then start up the next steeper section. Suddenly I lose my nerve. I stop for a moment then try again. This is ridiculous, I'm not afraid of heights! I make a couple more attempts but simply cannot force myself to continue. There are other people climbing head of me, I should have no problem, but I cannot make myself go farther. I retrace my steps to the bottom and go back to my bike, not too sure what just happened.
I decide to ride around Uluru and make several stops to hike some trails that lead into the rock. I am about halfway around when the clouds start rolling in. Soon rain is pouring down and lightning is flashing across the sky. I think about the people who were climbing Ayres Rock ahead of me and by now would be at the top. Now I know why I could not continue my climb.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3068 on: December 17, 2022, 12:02:26 PM »
December 28 I reach the Great Ocean road and have a pleasant ride, stopping for pictures at the many great sights along the ocean. The rock formations in the ocean, known as the Twelve Apostles, are just one such stop. Accommodations are almost impossible to get along the coast this time of year and I have trouble finding a room or camp the night of December 30. I practically beg for a camping spot, and finally find a caravan park at Anglesea where I put up my tent amongst dozens of others and settle in for the night. Next day I reach Queenscliff where I spend New Years Eve and Day with Curtis, Vanessa and her family. The weather is not great but nor is it bad— with clouds, sun, periodic showers and gentle ocean breezes. We enjoy a wonderful New Years Eve dinner of crayfish, prawns and all the fixings, complemented with champagne and wine. What a wonderful way to end an exciting year- with family and newfound friends.
New Years day I make several phone calls back home to my family. I am excited to talk to them all and hear about their Christmas and New Year. They all wish me well on my travels and wonder how much longer I will be gone.
What a great year I have had, and my journey has just begun! Year 2002... where will it lead?
January 1, 2002, I have been away from home for five months. Am I getting tired of traveling? Am I getting lonely or homesick? Well, with the risk of sounding selfish or cold, the answer is NO! My thirst for adventure and to see the world has just amplified over the past five months. I am ready to see more, experience more, and meet more people- the journey has just begun.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3069 on: December 17, 2022, 03:13:13 PM »
... Accommodations are almost impossible to get along the coast this time of year and I have trouble finding a room or camp the night of December 30. I practically beg for a camping spot ...

Even Mary and Joseph had trouble finding a room at an Inn, had to settle for a stable.  Wasn't really surprising, ever tried to get room on Christmas Eve without a booking?
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eBiking, the second best time you can have with your pants on
Afterlife, up there for the climate, down there for the company.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3070 on: December 18, 2022, 01:53:24 PM »
I pick up my bike the next day, ride into the city and park on the sidewalk in line with the dozens of other bikes. I smile as I think of my biking friends back home. I must send them a picture, because parking on the sidewalk there would warrant a ticket. I do some shopping at Peter Stevens Motorcycle shop and when I return I find two fellows seriously looking over my bike. I hurry to the bike and say, "Hi, can I help you?" Turns out these two fellows, Eric and Jason, are Magna riders and invite me on a ride around Tasmania with their Magna Club. I also discover they are both computer techs and they offer to help solve the problem I've been having connecting my laptop to the Internet. Eric and Jason are about 30, Eric has a head of black hair and Jason is bald. Eric is only about 57", while Jason is two or three inches taller. They both ride Honda Magnas and sound like they have a lot of fun with their friends and bikes.
Wow, this is great! I wasn't planning on going to Tasmania but now I cannot pass up this opportunity. Later I meet Nene, Eric's girlfriend, who rides her own Magna. Nene gives me the details of the Tasmania ride. The group will be leaving on Saturday, March 23, and Nene is quite sure that they secured the last spots available on the ferry. I will have to make my own arrangements to cross the ocean. Not a problem, I will check the schedules and meet them on the other side. I am able to get a booking on the Spirit of Tasmania for Thursday, March 21.
Untamed Spirit  Doris Maron pp82-3
For the modern man who lives in the city, riding a bike might be one of the only ways to escape the humdrum monotony. To take off and ride. To be both at one with nature and one with the bike. To feel masculine. Adam Piggott

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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3071 on: December 19, 2022, 10:27:22 AM »
The air is cool but very comfortable for riding. This is a welcomed reprieve from the heat that will surely come later. At Dunmarra, my second fuel stop for the day, I see a Shell tanker truck at the pumps. He is pulling four tanks- yes four! This is the longest road train I have seen. I can't help but study it closely. I count 86 wheels- imagine the cost of rubber on that baby!
The temperature has become very hot, as I knew it would, so I take a couple of extra breaks before reaching Katherine. I locate David and Norma's small farm a few kilometers out of town. David has a Rotary meeting tonight so Norma and I spend part of the evening hunting cane toads. Cane toads are unwanted pests. They have a poisonous gland that kills snakes and other animals that happen to eat them. Getting rid of the cane toads is Norma's contribution to controlling the environment and the harm they do. I am not sure how much headway she makes because each night she finds and catches several more.
I leave early next morning for a ride out to Katherine Gorge. I encounter several little wallabies on the road- they tend to come out late at night and very early in the morning. After a most scenic ride to Katherine Gorge, I hike the two-hour loop following the rim of the Gorge. I marvel at the views! On my walk back to the parking area I look up to see thousands of flying fox hanging in the trees. Thank goodness they don't fly in the daylight. The flying fox is like a bat only ten to twenty times bigger. I would not want one of those guys flying over my head.
Untamed Spirit  Doris Maron p99
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3072 on: December 19, 2022, 12:29:13 PM »
Hey Bill, could this be the same Doris Maron?  Only pic on the FB page, but sitting on a Magna.



https://www.facebook.com/doris.maron/photos

It would seem that these days she prefers a pushbike.  I'm not sure how long it will be until I give up the ST1300, in preference to a smaller bike.   One Saturday morning a few months back, sitting on the side of the bed, getting ready for a ride, saying to myself ST or eBike, eBike or ST - the eBike won.
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Cheers,  Williamson (AKA Michael)

Motorcycling, the best time you can have with your pants on.
eBiking, the second best time you can have with your pants on
Afterlife, up there for the climate, down there for the company.
If I'd known I was gunna live this long, I woulda looked after myself better
 

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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3073 on: December 20, 2022, 12:04:02 PM »
Yes, Williamson, I believe that is her, but no way to be certain.  Her's isn't a common name, (although there are 4 in FB!) and the combination with the Magna is pretty convincing.
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Re: Motorcycle Quote of the Day
« Reply #3074 on: December 20, 2022, 12:04:14 PM »
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Sunday morning I am up early sitting in the garden area working my computer when Fatima gets up. She opens the back door and calls to me "come see." I grab my camera expecting to see a pretty bird or interesting creature, instead I see the saddlebags on my bike wide open and the contents scattered out on the lawn.
Fatima immediately goes to wake John and Marten and Jen, while I start taking pictures of my bike and belongings. My new riding boots that I just purchased in Australia are gone, my electric pant liners, first aid kit, international electrical plugs and other small items I have not yet realized- all gone. By this time Marten and Jen have determined that their new Compaq laptop they bought four weeks ago is gone, along with numerous other articles. I am thankful I had taken my laptop into my room and locked it in my removable top trunk. The locks on my saddlebags were useless. They did not even get damaged in the break-in. Marten and Jen have metal panniers with strong locks, which were both damaged. They will have to replace the locks and do some major straightening to the panniers to make them usable. Both panniers were broken into on Marten's bike and Jen's. John's bike was not touched. It was parked closest to the building and we surmise that the thieves left once they found the computer, or were scared off before they got to his bike.
Untamed Spirit  Doris Maron pp114-5
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