Despite a couple of acres of garish orange and black smashing my eyeballs over at Motorcycles R Us, they’d focused on three little words etched into the seat. Ready to Race.
What? Get off the pot! Ready to race? Good grief, they’re kidding, right? I mean, what sort of out of balance, onehanded wrist action came up with that? It’s a bloody chook chaser. Okay, so maybe it’s a mega chooky, but it’s still a trailbike. Well, sort of, you know. In that silly way that so-called adventure bikes are styled like trailbikes even though the bigger they are, the less riders are actually heading bush. And this one, looking more like a Transformer Chainsaw than a motorcycle, looked big. And angry.
Righto, let’s wind the clock back a little.…
