I have been amiss. I have not been blogging. Sorry about that.
Firstly the weather has been so much better recently (not counting the last three days of rain - more on that later). Every time I've had a spare minute and the sun has been shining I heard a little voice calling me, upon investigation it turned out to be my little Bandit calling me to go ride. Obviously it would be rude to ignore hallucinatory voices so I have been riding not blogging.
A couple of weekends ago I went on an MCN forums ride out down to the Cheltenham Bikesafe show. This was good fun but boy I had to work my poor little Bandit hard to keep up with all the big bikes that everyone else turned up on.
My computer time has been taken up with an ever more feverish search for a replacement for my wrecked Z750. I have searched MCN/Autotrader/Ebay a million times a day, every day. My list of potential bikes went something like this: Kwak Z750, Honda Hornet 900, Aprillia Falco, Honda Firestorm, Suzuki SV1000s, Suzuki SV650s, Suzuki Bandit 1200. The thing that's made it hard is every time I consider a bike that is not a Z750 my heart sinks. You see my love affair with the Zed was far from over and it still ticks all the boxes in my criteria list. The other bikes on my list are all great but still don't quite do it for me. The problem is, though, that nowhere could I find a Zed in the right colours at the right price, within a reasonable range. Finally last weekend I found a black one in London in Ebay. No one else bid on it and I got it at the right price. I go down to London today to pick it up (if it matches it's description) and ride it home... Wish me luck.