Neil is embarrassed with my hopelessness
29 July 2007
I’ve been a passenger on many a motorcycle in my time, but I’ve never been the one to drive / ride these two-wheeled monsters.
That is not about to change.
Very recently, someone I work with offered to let me have a go on their 50cc Vespa. I’ve always fancied myself as more of a scooter gal than biker, so I was happy to accept.
The only thing I did not screw up at (and I was so convinced I would) was turning the throttle and moving off without losing control or balance. I could go into the whole sordid story, but I shall just say that being short and not very heavy means:
- I had no momentum or leverage to speak of to roll the scooter off its stand to begin with — always a bad sign.
- Turning involves leaning — a slight incline meant an inevitable disaster, but I comfort myself with the fact that I didn’t drop the scooter, I lowered it slowly to the ground.
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